Coronavirus news live: England ramps up booster vaccine rollout as Covid hospitalisations rise

Scientists based successful Africa are attempting to reverse technologist a coronavirus vaccine by replicating Moderna’s Covid-19 changeable successful a bid to constrictive vaccine disparities betwixt the world’s wealthiest and poorest nations.

The enactment is being backed by the World Health Organization, which is coordinating a vaccine research, grooming and accumulation hub successful South Africa on with a related proviso concatenation for captious earthy materials, the Associated Press reports.

“We are doing this for Africa astatine this moment, and that drives us,” said Emile Hendricks, a 22-year-old biotechnologist for Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines, the institution trying to reproduce the Moderna shot. “We tin nary longer trust connected these large superpowers to travel successful and prevention us.”

Some experts spot reverse engineering - recreating vaccines from fragments of publically disposable accusation - arsenic 1 of the fewer remaining ways to redress the powerfulness imbalances of the pandemic. Only 0.7% of vaccines person gone to low-income countries truthful far, portion astir fractional person gone to affluent countries, according to an investigation by the People’s Vaccine Alliance.

A wellness idiosyncratic administers a dose of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine astatine a infirmary successful the outskirts of Banjul, Gambia, connected 23 September, 2021. Photograph: Léo Corrêa/AP

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In a determination towards preparing the federation for wintertime and a imaginable surge successful Covid cases, ministers successful the UK accidental they privation to ramp up the booster jab rollout.

More than 5 cardinal radical had had a 3rd jab since the vaccination programme began administering them past month, NHS England said connected Sunday.

About 7.5 cardinal radical person already been invited by text, email and letter, encouraging them to publication done the nationalist booking service. Two cardinal much volition person invitations this week.

• British vocalist Ed Sheeran announced investigating affirmative for Covid-19. In an Instagram station helium said: “It means that I’m present incapable to plough up with immoderate in-person commitments for now, truthful I’ll beryllium doing arsenic galore of my planned interviews/performances I tin from my house.” Sheeran volition beryllium aforesaid isolating and cancelling in-person commitments.
• NHS maternity services feared to beryllium adjacent breaking point, the UK’s astir elder gynaecologist has warned. The wellness work could soon beryllium incapable to present “the attraction it needs to” for women giving commencement if the surge successful Covid cases continues, the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has said. As Covid cases rise the NHS battles a huge backlog of 5.7 cardinal patients caused by the archetypal and 2nd waves of the virus.
  
• UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak to denote astir £6bn to tackle England’s grounds NHS waiting list. In an effort to get a grip connected the crisis, the chancellor volition unveil plans for concern successful NHS superior backing this week to assistance present astir 30% much elective enactment by 2024-25 compared to pre-pandemic levels. This is equivalent to millions much checks, scans and procedures for non-emergency patients.
• US main aesculapian advisor Dr Anthony Fauci predicts Covid shots for kids 5 to 11 volition beryllium disposable by aboriginal November. A reappraisal sheet of the US nutrient and cause medication (FDA) found past week that the benefits of Pfizer-BioNTech shots for the younger property radical outweighed the risks.
• The UK is lagging down different G7 countries successful sharing surplus Covid vaccines with poorer countries, according to recently published figures. The advocacy organisation One, which is campaigning to extremity utmost poorness and preventable illness by 2030, described it arsenic shaming for the UK government. The figures amusement that the UK is down each subordinate of the G7 – of which Britain is presently the seat – but for Japan.
  
• STI rates “at their highest numbers” successful the US arsenic Covid dominates wellness funding. Health officials are acrophobic astir however to divert cardinal resources to combatting a emergence successful sexually-transmitted infections (STI) that is present continuing contempt the societal restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic and is present successful its sixth consecutive twelvemonth of increase.
• Russia reports 1,000 regular Covid deaths.
  
• UK records astir 40,000 affirmative Covid results.