Thousands queue for ‘Super Saturday’ vaccines as ‘race is on’ to beat delta variant

Thousands of individuals flocked to Covid-19 vaccination hubs across the united kingdom during a “Super Saturday” drive to beat the Indian/delta variant, with thousands of doses administered to all or any over-18s at giant jab hubs including the Olympic Stadium, Stamford Bridge, Tottenham Hotspur FC and Charlton Athletic FC

Official data suggested that hospitalisations aren’t increasing with an equivalent speed as they were within the previous, second wave despite warnings from Prof Adam Finn, a Government vaccine advisor on the JCVI committee, that a “third wave…is definitely under way” in Britain

The Queen returned with smiles to Royal Ascot, which was held behind closed doors last year but was being staged this point round as a part of the reopening of society following the Covid lockdowns

Rumours abounded that China’s top spycatcher had defected to the US, amid a growing focus in Washington on the idea that Covid-19 escaped from a Wuhan laboratory

People who have had two Covid-19 jabs and are available into contact with someone infected with the virus may soon be spared 10 days of self-isolating, Linda Bauld, professor of public health at Edinburgh University, suggested

The UK recorded another 14 Covid-linked deaths, and quite 10,000 new coronavirus infections for the third day during a row, while the newest vaccination figures showed 42.6 million UK adults have had a primary dose and quite 31 million a second.