As well as protecting a great number of people, giving vaccines away can raise the UK’s influence abroad and perhaps even change how the country perceives the pandemic.
People who had previously caught the coronavirus, which is similar to having an additional vaccine dose, had more neutralising antibodies against COVID variants after being vaccinated.
Fewer than 2% of children with COVID-19 still had symptoms after eight weeks.
Governor Gavin Newsom holds a mock-up check for the first 15 Californians to be awarded US$50,000 for doing their part in getting vaccinated against COVID at the California Lottery Headquarters in Sacramento.
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As New Zealand enters another lockdown after detecting a single COVID case, it’s time to consider whether stringent zero COVID strategies are feasible in the long term.
People stand in a queue to receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Bengaluru, India.
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Reducing transmission of the virus among younger people can help Britain reopen more quickly and reduce the risk of the virus infecting those most at risk.
In east Asian countries, past disease outbreaks have made face masks part of everyday life – but the social context supporting such behaviour isn’t present in the UK.