On the one hand Government obviously believes I can't be safe from Covid because all the restrictions remain – with no excuses for the vaccinated. On the other hand, they say the NHS is open for routine business.
A quarter of England's over-80s are likely to have received both their doses of the Covid vaccine, according to NHS England figures – yet the Coronavirus Act has been renewed by MPs for a further six months.
Denmark has extended its suspension of the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine for 3 weeks to continue investigating reports that it causes blood clots. A recent survey found that one in three Danes would decline to get an AZ jab.
AstraZeneca has downgraded its estimates of its Covid jab's efficacy by 3%. The pharmaceutical company hopes that this small revision will enable its vaccine to receive US approval in the coming weeks.
A retired dentist has written a guest post for Lockdown Sceptics about his decision not to have the jab.
Children in the UK could start getting the Covid vaccine from August, much earlier than expected. Ministers are awaiting safety data on a child vaccine study being run by Oxford Uni before making their final decisions.
Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have agreed to make Covid jabs mandatory for care home workers. And this is just the beginning – similar requirements are currently under consideration for other healthcare workers.
Boris Johnson has stressed the importance of keeping the vaccine rollout at its current pace due to the likelihood that the third wave of Covid infections across Europe will hit the UK as well.
The UK's vaccine rollout could be delayed by two months if EU members decide to ban exports of the jab next week. Reports suggest that this action would not even provide a significant boost to slower rollouts in the EU.
The UK has set a new record for the number of people vaccinated in one day, pushing the total number of adults jabbed to 51%. Yet the pace of unlocking is still far too slow.
