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GPs have been told they need to monitor patients given Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for side effects for at least 15 minutes after injection – in a move which could scupper Government plans to inoculate a million Brits a week by next year. Britain’s medical watchdog issued the new advice to …

Hull and the East Riding’s hospitals will receive their first batch of coronavirus vaccines “in the next few days”. The trust that runs Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital had been named as one of 50 hubs across the UK that would help with the rollout and it has …

Exeter Nightingale reopens because Devon hospital is ‘very busy’ – even though it was only 88% full last week and was quieter than most (so WHY can’t it cope?) Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust has insisted it is ‘very busy’ with patients But data suggests it was only 88 …

Inside the frightening chaos of Hull’s intensive care unit lies a patient battling coronavirus. But this isn’t an elderly person with underlying health conditions but previously fit and healthy Laura who is just 31 years old. Look North’s health correspondent Vicky Johnson was invited in to the Intensive Care Unit …

Queen and rest of Royal Family WON’T be able to jump the queue for Covid vaccine and even Boris Johnson will have to wait his turn Senior government source told The Telegraph there will be ‘no special treatment’ Guidance previously said care home residents and their carers will be top …

Prince Charles paid special tribute to the wartime generation who fought for freedoms ‘more precious than we knew’ at the Royal British Legion’s annual Festival of Remembrance broadcast last night. In a moving speech at the start of the pre-recorded socially distanced event at the Royal Albert Hall, the Prince of Wales …

Hull now has more patients with coronavirus in hospitals than it did during the first wave, according to latest figures. Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital currently has 117 patients being treated for coronavirus – up by nine from Wednesday’s total of 108. The number of patients in intensive …

Britain’s coronavirus cases remained flat at 24,141 today despite Boris Johnson justifying lockdown by claiming the NHS is under threat from soaring hospitalisations. There was increase of just 4.7 percent on last Thursday’s infections and a drop of 1,063 cases on yesterday’s figure of 25,177. Earlier the Prime Minister and …

England’s chief public health officials tonight unveiled grim graphs that show how all models of the coronavirus second wave predict the number of deaths will exceed SAGE’s ‘worst cases scenario’.  At the heart of the scientific data supporting Boris Johnson’s decision to plunge England into a second lockdown was a …

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Sunday announced new anti-coronavirus restrictions for bars, restaurants and public gatherings, in a move aimed at stopping a spike in infections and avoiding a new nationwide lockdown.   Under the new rules, gyms, swimming pools, cinemas and theaters will be closed, while bars and …