Moderna jabs will be rolled-out in 3 weeks to under-50s as Britain’s vaccine drive shifts up a gear

Britain’s world-beating vaccine rollout will move up another gear in mid-April when the Moderna jab is deployed for the first time, The Mail on Sunday understands. The imminent arrival of more than 500,000 doses of the new US vaccine – to add to millions of Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca shots – will herald the expansion of the … Read more

Workers riot at India iPhone factory over shifts

Workers riot at Indian iPhone factory after going ‘four months without pay and being asked to work extra shifts’ Cars were overturned and set on fire while glass was smashed during the rioting The violence broke out at a Wistron facility where workers say wages are unpaid The Taiwan-based supplier makes iPhone handsets on the … Read more

Business leaders panic and Morgan Stanley shifts assets to Frankfurt as a No Deal Brexit looms

Business leaders were sweating last night as the prospects of a No Deal Brexit increased dramatically. Top bosses urged ministers to ‘leave no stone unturned in search of a deal’. It came as bank Morgan Stanley dealt another blow to Britain’s post-Brexit prospects, becoming the latest Wall Street lender to shift chunks of its assets … Read more

Test and Trace staff spent just 1% of their shifts actually working during height of pandemic

Test and Trace staff spent just 1% of their shifts actually working during height of coronavirus pandemic, damning report claims System received £22bn with promise it would prevent a second lockdown Some 18,000 call handlers were only working for one per cent of the time  Another 3,000 were drafted in to help but they spent … Read more

Bosses back work from home shifts after coronavirus

Research finds three in four employers will let their staff work from home more after coronavirus has gone By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 BST, 4 October 2020 | Updated: 22:06 BST, 4 October 2020 Three in four employers will let their staff work from home more after the virus has gone, … Read more

Covid shifts to the young: Two-thirds of new infections in the UK are in the under-40s

Two-thirds of new coronavirus infections in the UK are in the under-40s, while the rate among older people has fallen sharply in an ‘extraordinary’ shift. The number of over-50s testing positive for Covid-19 now represents just a fifth of those nationwide, compared with three quarters in the spring. Just three per cent are now made … Read more