Sophie van Brugen BBC News BBC Pupils at Platt Primary school in Maidstone learn about sun protection Children as young as five are being taught how to check UV levels and apply sunscreen, as part of a new pilot aimed at reducing future skin cancer cases. The initiative, currently being trialled in primary schools across … Read more
Getty Images A vaccine is to be trialled on thousands of people to find out if it could protect against norovirus – a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea. The easily spreadable winter virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences – often closing hospital wards, taking children out of school … Read more
In addition to doses of AZ, Pfizer and Moderna, some people will be given doses of vaccines from Novavax, Janssen, Valneva and CureVac, which are currently being trialled in large numbers of people, but have not yet been approved by the UK regulator. Source link
The first ten people are jabbed in London as part of a global trial. Source link
More than 165,000 people in England will be offered the tests from next year. Source link
An injection of antibodies might provide up to six months’ protection to immuno-compromised patients. Source link