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Are pregnant women ‘more at risk’ of severe Delta variant symptoms?

Healthcare professionals stress importance of antenatal vaccination
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Israel accuses Iran over tanker attack

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Flood of tribunals expected over jabs

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NHS ‘planned to withdraw care from elderly’

The NHS made confidential plans to withdraw hospital care from people in nursing homes in the event of a pandemic, reports the Daily Telegraph. Secret…
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Hong Kong arrest over anthem booing

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Why England is dropping isolation for EU and US tourists
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Oxford-AstraZeneca
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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

Most vaccines rely on weakened or inactivated parts of the virus to provoke an immune response in their recipients, but the Pfizer version is syntheti…
Moderna
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Moderna

Moderna has become the third coronavirus vaccine to be rolled out in the UK. The majority of the available vaccines have been bought by the UK, EU, US…
Janssen-Johnson & Johnson
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Janssen-Johnson & Johnson

Like the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, the Janssen drug uses a modified adenovirus, a harmless, engineered virus that is injected into the patient. The …
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Films of the year
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