Vaccine squads to go door-to-door to offer covid jabs to ethnic-minority families amid low uptake

Vaccine squads will go door-to-door to offer Covid-19 jabs to ethnic-minority families in large households amid low uptake after a successful pilot saw hundreds inoculated in past fortnight Ministers plan to roll out the scheme to increase covid vaccination uptake A successful pilot targeting multi-generation homes in Luton and Bradford has resulted in hundreds of … Read more

Public health expert says there is NO evidence uptake of AstraZeneca jab is slowing in UK

Professor Linda Bauld of Edinburgh University said there is no evidence that the uptake of AstraZeneca jab is slowing in the UK There is no evidence that the uptake of AstraZeneca jab is slowing in the UK despite European countries pausing their rollout of the company’s vaccine, a public health expert has claimed. Professor Linda … Read more

Car makers call on the Government to boost consumer uptake of EVs

Car makers today demanded much greater support from the Government to help consumers buy electric vehicles if ministers’ ambitious ‘electric dreams’ are to become a reality. Rule makers must ‘put ordinary drivers at the heart of policy and planning’ if they are to win consumers’ ‘hearts and minds’, they said. Electric cars are still too … Read more

No10 pushing for compulsory Covid vaccines for care home staff amid fears about low uptake

Health Secretary Matt Hancock today confirmed the Government may make Covid vaccines compulsory for care home staff. Ministers are concerned about low uptake rates among carers in parts of England — NHS figures show just a third of workers have had the jabs in some neighbourhoods in London. Mr Hancock admitted mandatory vaccination was ‘something we … Read more

Care home bosses demand staff get Covid jabs or risk losing their jobs amid fears over uptake

Care home bosses are demanding that staff have the Covid-19 vaccination – or risk losing their jobs. Several carers have contacted The Mail on Sunday to claim that they have been threatened with the sack or a pay cut if they refuse to have the jab. One young worker at an old people’s home in … Read more

Covid UK: Hackney vaccine centre closes due to ‘really low uptake’

A Covid vaccination centre in London has had to reduce its opening hours because not enough people are coming forward for the jab.  The John Scott inoculation hub in Hackney, East London, claimed ‘really slow patient uptake’ forced it to close at 2pm on three days last week. The centre, which is open to patients … Read more

Covid vaccine centre in Hackney is forced to close early because of ‘really low uptake’

A Covid vaccination centre in London has had to reduce its opening hours because not enough people are coming forward for the jab.  The John Scott inoculation hub in Hackney, East London, claimed ‘really slow patient uptake’ forced it to close at 2pm on three days last week. The centre, which is open to patients … Read more

Vaccines Minister ‘very concerned’ at jab uptake in BAME communities

Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi says he is ‘very concerned’ about levels of vaccination in BAME communities and urges social media companies to do more to tackle anti-vax content Nadhim Zahawi said he is ‘very concerned’ at jab uptake in some communities He said Covid will spread like ‘wildfire’ in communities which do not get the … Read more

When Covid puts our ethnic minorities more at risk why IS their uptake of the jab so much lower?

There’s no shortage of customers for Covid-19 vaccinations at Blackburn Cathedral, where, for generations, local folk have sung Christian hymns in their Sunday best. Today, the imposing building is open for other business. Instead of saving souls, it is busy helping to save lives.  Volunteers hold umbrellas over Lancashire’s elderly, many in wheelchairs or propped … Read more

No10 told to ensure Covid vaccine uptake stays high seven-days-a-week

No10 was told today it must ‘throw as much money as possible’ at the NHS to ensure coronavirus vaccine uptake stays high seven-days-a-week after an apparent drop in the number of people receiving jabs at the weekend.   Data shows there was up to 30 per cent drop in the number of people who received the … Read more