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8.20am GMT
The Czech Republic started administering vaccinations against the new coronavirus on Sunday, part of a push against the pandemic across the European Union.
8.13am GMT
Welcome to a Sunday edition of our Coronavirus live blog covering both the UK and global developments on the virus.
The official vaccination programme against coronavirus gets underway in several EU countries today. In some places inoculations began last night when health workers in Hungary, Slovakia and Germany got their first injections of the Pfizer/BioNtech jab. The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis, was vaccinated this morning at a military hospital in Prague.
Our Critical Care Department is urgently looking for assistance from medical students or other staff groups who have previously supported with proning patients.
If you are fit tested and available at 9am/5pm over the next few days call 02921 841174 or bleep 5490. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/HoZ5aJsIZ6
Continue reading…Latest updates: millions of Europeans due to get inoculated today; Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is set for approval in the UK this weekUK scientists call for nationwide lockdown after spread of variantSpain, Sweden and Canada report cases of UK Covid variantAstraZeneca chief believes Covid vaccine will work on variant strainBreakthough medicines that could change the course of Covid 8.20am GMTThe Czech Republic started administering vaccinations against the new coronavirus on Sunday, part of a push against the pandemic across the European Union. 8.13am GMTWelcome to a Sunday edition of our Coronavirus live blog covering both the UK and global developments on the virus.The official vaccination programme against coronavirus gets underway in several EU countries today. In some places inoculations began last night when health workers in Hungary, Slovakia and Germany got their first injections of the Pfizer/BioNtech jab. The Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis, was vaccinated this morning at a military hospital in Prague. Our Critical Care Department is urgently looking for assistance from medical students or other staff groups who have previously supported with proning patients. If you are fit tested and available at 9am/5pm over the next few days call 02921 841174 or bleep 5490. Thank you. pic.twitter.com/HoZ5aJsIZ6 Continue reading…