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England to roll out fourth COVID shot: NHS

England will begin rolling out its fourth coronavirus vaccine shot this week, the National Health Service (NHS) announced Sunday, with millions of the country's...

UK jabs top 20 million; Czechs on Sputnik

London—Britain said Sunday more than 20 million of its people have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while the rest of...

UK vaccinates over 20 million with at least one dose

Britain announced Sunday that it has given more than 20 million people at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, with the rapid rollout...

Virus jabs for all regardless of immigration status, says UK

Undocumented migrants in Britain will still be able to get COVID vaccines without being subject to status checks, the government said on Monday. Anyone in...

England opens mass vaccination sites as virus spike fears spread

Seven mass coronavirus vaccination sites opened across England Monday as the government raced to dose millions of people while a new strain of the...

British health service urges Brexit extension to avoid virus catastrophe

Britain's public health service urged Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday to extend the country's Brexit transition period or risk pushing hospitals already struggling...

UK public warned to get serious as COVID alarm bells ring

England is on track for about 50,000 coronavirus cases a day by mid-October and a surging death toll unless the public gets serious about...

World Roundup: WHO: Herbs potential virus cure

The World Health Organization has endorsed a protocol for testing African herbal medicines as potential treatments for the coronavirus and other epidemics. COVID-19 has raised...

UK study finds higher risk of virus deaths for ethnic minorities

The risk of dying from coronavirus is two to three times higher for England's black and minority ethnic communities, according to an academic analysis...

Unions go virtual, scrap May 1 marches

Millions of workers traditionally take to the streets for May Day marches, but with half of humanity in lockdown, this is going to be...

Coronavirus highlights role of foreign staff in British hospitals

Joan Pons Laplana is a senior digital charge nurse working on the frontline in an intensive care unit treating coronavirus patients at Sheffield Teaching...

7-yr-old kid is youngest fatality in UK

London—Britain on Saturday reported a record 708 daily deaths from COVID-19, including a five-year-old child, who is thought to be the country’s youngest victim. The...

UK rushes to build field hospitals as death toll rises

London—The UK government said Friday it was rushing to build more emergency field hospitals ahead of an expected surge in coronavirus cases, hours after...

Dogs eyed to sniff out virus

A British charity has teamed up with scientists to see whether dogs could help detect COVID-19 through their keen sense of smell, they said...
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