Hospitals are planning to delay the second dose of the coronavirus vaccines to doctors and nurses - worried unions say the delay is 'bizarre'

Country music superstars Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson both confirmed that they have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine!

coronavirus vaccine by September, Dominic Raab has pledged. The Foreign Secretary said the Government was working to the early autumn target to complete the roll out - with 3.5 million already receiving their first jab.

direct to your inboxA doctor has railed against the delay of the second Covid-19 vaccine dose and warned breaking consent with patients is close to ‘moral injury’.The government and NHS England has ruled that GPs must move the second dose of the vaccine to 12 weeks after the first, instead of the originally planned three-week gap.And from Monday, January 11 they were informed that they had to postpone any second dose vaccines they had originally booked within the timeframe.Since December 15,

Willie Nelson received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine this week.The 87-year-old country icon was given the Moderna jab at a clinic in Cedar Park, Texas on Wednesday (January 13), his wife Annie confirmed to Rolling Stone.“We’re lucky,” she told the outlet.

coronavirus pandemic, a doctor has said.

coronavirus after his second dose of the vaccine was cancelled. David Longden, 43, got the first jab against Covid-19 on Tuesday, December 8 - the inaugural day the first dose of the Pfizer jab was rolled out.

President-elect Joe Biden received his second dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday, three weeks after getting his first one with television cameras rolling in an attempt to reassure the American public that the inoculations are safe. Biden took off his sport jacket and said, "Ready, set, go." Chief Nurse Executive Ric Cumin administered the Pfizer vaccine at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware, close to the president-elect's home.

direct to your inboxAn 85-year-old has had her second coronavirus vaccine dose postponed – and doesn’t have a new date – despite medics ‘drumming into’ her how important it was to get it ‘within three weeks’.Former health worker Beryl Clark had her first dose of the Pfizer jab on December 18 at the Sale Life Centre.

The New York nurse who became the first in the U.S. to receive a dose of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine last month received her second shot on Monday, becoming one of the first in the country to be fully inoculated.

direct to your inboxA further 14 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.It brings the total death toll in the region to 4,272.Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust recorded eleven more deaths.Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust registered another death while there were two more recorded at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.Earlier today it was revealed dialysis patient Brian Pinker received his jab of the Oxford vaccine at

Chris Rock revealed he "can't wait" to get the coronavirus vaccine when it becomes available to him. The 55-year-old comedian told CBS' Gayle King that he's not really worried about how they are made, just that they work on the public.  "Let me put it this way: Do I take Tylenol when I get a headache? Yes," he reasoned.

direct to your inboxGood Morning Britain’s Dr Hilary has explained why the second dose of some people’s coronavirus vaccine could end up being delayed beyond the three-week period that was originally proposed.Second doses of both types of vaccine available in the UK will now take place within 12 weeks rather than the 21 days that was planned with the Pfizer/BioNTech jab.It follows a change in guidance which aims to accelerate immunisation.The show’s health editor told hosts Piers Morgan and

direct to your inboxBatches of the newly approved coronavirus vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca have started arriving at hospitals ahead of the jab’s rollout.Some 530,000 doses of the vaccine will be available for rollout across the UK from Monday, with vulnerable groups already identified as the priority for immunisation.The NHS will be the first health service in the world to deliver the jab, which was approved last week, in the next stage of the phased vaccine programme.The first

Federal authorities are assisting Wisconsin police in their investigation into a hospital employee who was fired for deliberately spoiling 500 doses of the coronavirus vaccine. An employee at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton admitted that they intentionally removed 57 vials of the Moderna's vaccine from refrigeration earlier this week.

direct to your inboxBoris Johnson offered hope today that many coronavirus restrictions may have “receded into the past” by spring 2021.But scientists will have to wait to find out if vaccinations will prevent transmission of Covid-19 first.The deputy chief medical officer has said he can’t yet offer assurances that those vaccinated “won’t still pose a hazard to others”.Professor Jonathan Van-Tam and the Prime Minister were asked what a return to normality could look like - and whether

Britain’s health regulator has approved a second coronavirus vaccine in what is likely to be a gamechanger in the fight against the pandemic.