US infectious disease expert urges China to release medical records of Wuhan lab workers; Japan to donate 1.24m vaccine doses to Tawian; Australia detects highly infectious Delta variant in Melbourne
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The NHS cannot provide thousands of extra doses of Covid-19 vaccines to Blackburn with Darwen borough, despite it having the highest infection rate in the UK and a death rate almost a third higher than the national average.
The local MP said it “beggared belief” that Blackburn’s repeated pleas to continue surge vaccinations had been knocked back, arguing the move will place the NHS under “overwhelming and unnecessary pressure”.
Related: No more vaccine surge in Blackburn, says NHS as infection rate grows
In Russia they’ve been carrying out a trial with mixing doses of the Sputnik V vaccine and the AstraZeneca shot, and this morning Reuters are reporting that no negative side-effects were detected in the study.
