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Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine: the two injections must be given 21 days apart. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire
Pfizer vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity

The Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine may be less effective in people with obesity, data suggests. Italian researchers have discovered that healthcare workers (...)

A handout picture released by the University of Oxford in November shows a technician working on the University’s Covid-19 candidate vaccine. Photograph: University of Oxford/AFP via Getty Images
How well does the Oxford vaccine work? What we know so far
  • UK
  • December 30, 2020, 09:06

What is the latest news? The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has approved the vaccine developed by Oxford University and the(...)

A team of experts at the University of Oxford are working to develop a vaccine that could prevent people from getting Covid-19. Photograph: Sean Elias/PA Wire
Coronavirus: Early vaccines may help but not halt the pandemic

There’s enormous pressure on authorities to solve the Covid-19 pandemic. A vaccine is one potential solution. In July, US president Donald Trump toure(...)

Russian president Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a Covid-19 vaccine. Photograph: Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images.
Russia set to begin Covid-19 vaccinations within weeks

Russia has become the first country to grant regulatory approval to a vaccine against Covid-19, with mass production and immunisation of key workers t(...)