Vaccines

You should get advice from 111 as soon as possible if you think you have shingles

Shingles vaccine: who is eligible and is shingles contagious?

The RSV vaccination programme has launched across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. (Photo: Gustavo Fring/Pexels)

What is the RSV vaccine and who is eligible?

Monkeypox pathogen. Credit: UKHS

Mpox UK: who is eligible for the monkeypox vaccine?

The WHO has declared a global health emergency over a mpox outbreak. (Photo: Pixabay, CDC/Getty Images)

Mpox: signs and symptoms as WHO declares global health emergency

FLuQE is a new Covid variant that has been driving new cases. (Photo: Pexels, CDC)

KP3 Covid symptoms as cases of new variant FLuQE rise

A new Covid variant has caused an increase in hospital admissions across the UK. (Photo: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Summer Covid symptoms as cases of new variant FLiRT increase

What we know about the new COVID FLiRT variants including symptoms

Two scientists credited with making major breakthroughs in the development of mRNA vaccine to fight Covid-19 have won the 2023 Nobel Prize for medicine. (Credit: Getty Images)

Covid-19 vaccine scientists win Nobel prize for medicine

The Vaccines announce ‘Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations’ album and 2024 UK tour - how to buy tickets

The Vaccines announce new album and UK tour - how to buy tickets

A nurse prepares a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Covid and flu jabs to be brought forward over emergence of new variant

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GB News in breach of Ofcom rules for second time

Andrew Bridgen MP

MP expelled from Conservative Party

Fewer deaths in Sunderland last year.

Over 3,000 deaths in Sunderland last year

NHS nurses are among the groups struggling to afford to eat (image: Getty Images)

Covid vaccine now offered to young clinically vulnerable children

Covid-19 booster injections will be offered to some this spring

Everything you need to know about spring 2023 Covid-19 booster jabs

Covid-19 booster jabs will be ooffered to ‘vulnberable’ people this spring

Covid-19 booster jabs to be offered to most vulnerable this spring

The Covid booster jabs will be offered to people six months after their last dose

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Huge vaccinations drive ahead as winter ‘twindemic’ looms

One in eight snub virus jab.

'One in eight' have snubbed virus vaccine

The Covid vaccination programme is being opened up to primary school age children.

Covid vaccination programme expanded to include primary age children

Vaccines are the best defence against severe disease and death, says the WHO (Photo: Getty Images)

Worst of Omicron wave ‘done with’ says WHO - but pandemic far from over

We need people to be vaccinated to help our NHS.

JULIE ELLIOTT: Government must work for those it claims to represent

Rules for those who are doubled-jabbed and who have been in contact with a person who tests positive for Covid are set to change. Picture: Getty Images.

Daily rapid testing for double-jabbed Covid contacts

Covid booster vaccines are currently available to anyone aged 40 or over. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

How can I book a booster vaccine? All you need to know about the third Covid vac...

Health Secretary Sajid Javid announced on Tuesday, November 9 that frontline NHS workers and social care staff will need to have Covid vaccinations in England to continue in their jobs. Picture: Paul Ellis/Getty Images.

NHS and social care staff must have Covid vaccinations

Jobs threat to care home workers

Virus jab jobs threat to Sunderland care home staff

Nation urged to get Covid booster jab ‘to protect freedom and Christmas’ - what ...

Covid booster vaccines may not be necessary for everyone in the UK, the head of AstraZeneca has said (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid booster vaccines may not be needed for everyone in the UK, says AstraZenec... Helen Johnson

With Covid cases once again on the rise, pregnant women are being urged to get their Covid vaccines. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Wire

NHS vaccine chief urges pregnant women to get their Covid jabs

Care home Covid jab fears

Scores of Sunderland care workers have no Covid jab

Festival-goers will be able to get a vaccine as easily as a burger or a beer (Photo: Getty Images)

Covid jabs on line-up as ‘vaccine tent’ opens at Reading and Leeds festivals

The vaccine doses will be delivered in the second half of next year (Photo: Getty Images)

UK secures 35m more Pfizer vaccine doses to ‘future-proof’ country from

Gerry Taylor, Sunderland 's Executive Director of Public Health and Integrated Commissioning

Will I still get 'pinged'? Do I need to self-isolate? Sunderland health chief an...

People who have been fully vaccinated can still transmit the Delta variant (Photo: Getty Images)

Vaccinated people can still pass on Delta variant - but protection remains high

More people are being treated for eating disorders. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Pfizer vaccine effectiveness declines more quickly than AstraZeneca, finds study

A Covid testing sign A1232, Sunderland. Picture by Frank Reid

Covid cases continue to decline as health chief urges residents to take up jab

A member of the public receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the Turbine Hall at a temporary Covid-19 vaccine centre at the Tate Modern in central London (Photo: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)

Vaccines could be offered to 16 and 17-year-olds as JCVI guidance set to be upda...

More than 4.2 million people aged between 18 and 29 have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in England (Photo: Getty Images)

Half of under 30s in England vaccinated against Covid after ‘grab a jab’ weekend

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Nearly 300 care home staff face compulsory virus jab decision

Care home staff will need to be double-jabbed from October if new legislation is approved.

Care home staff must have two doses of Covid jab from October under new law

Ministers are reportedly preparing to announce that care home workers in England will be required to have mandatory Covid vaccines (Photo: Shutterstock)

Covid vaccines set to be made a requirement for care home staff in England

More than half of Sunderland adults have now had Covid vaccine with 300,000 jabs given

More than half of Sunderland adults are now fully vaccinated

Just five per cent of Covid cases in Sunderland are among the over-60s

Just one in 20 new Covid cases in Sunderland among at-risk over-60s

More than 2000 confirmed cases of ‘Indian variant’ in the UK, Matt Hancock tells MPs (Photo: PA, House of Commons)

More than 2000 confirmed cases of ‘Indian variant’ in the UK, Matt Hancock tells...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking about the Covid-19 pandemic in the House of Commons, London. Photo by PA.

Independent inquiry into handling of Covid pandemic confirmed by Boris Johnson

The Moderna vaccine is the third to be approved for use in the UK, and is now being given to patients in England. (Photo by Steve Parsons - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Vaccines rolled out to all over-40s in England - how to book your appointment

A shocking new video has brought to life the horrific working conditions of donk...

The ‘every vaccination gives us hope’ campaign encourages those due to be offered vaccines in the second phase of the rollout to get the jab.

Under 50s urged to get Covid vaccine in new TV campaign

The latest Covid-19 vaccine figures have been confirmed. (Photo by STEVE PARSONS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

More than 10 million people in UK given second Covid vaccine dose

Gordon Brown has called for the mass vaccination of the world to be the primary focus of the G7 summit (Photos: Getty Images and Shutterstock)

UK and other wealthy countries should help pay for global vaccination, Gordon Br...

Sunderland councillors back Vaccines for All campaign

Sunderland councillors back Vaccines for All campaign

Over-50s should receive Covid vaccine ‘within the next few weeks’ - the rollout timeline explained (Photo: Shutterstock)

Over-50s should receive Covid vaccine ‘within the next few weeks’ - the rollout ...

Social distancing may have to continue until spring 2022 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s why social distancing may be needed until spring 2022 despite Covid vacci...

Vaccines that protect against the new Covid-19 variants should be ready by October (Photo: Shutterstock)

Vaccines that protect against Covid variants to be ready by October says Oxford ...

Testing to 'find every case' of South African Covid variant in England is underway - the areas affected (Photo: Shutterstock)

Testing to 'find every case' of South African Covid variant in England is underw...

A Covid vaccination is prepared for a patient at Grindon Lane Primary Care Centre.

Sunderland on target to vaccinate top priority groups with first jab