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Jabbed arrivals from France must still quarantine

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Biden says Facebook ‘killing people’

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Oxford-AstraZeneca

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine has been the jewel in the crown of the UK jab rollout, with its most recent clinical trial results reporting an overall…
Pfizer-BioNTech
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Pfizer-BioNTech

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Moderna
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Moderna

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Janssen-Johnson & Johnson

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