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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Editorial: Covid passports were best way out of lockdown

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MP expelled from Conservative Party

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

Huge vaccinations drive ahead as winter ‘twindemic’ looms

Health chiefs predict a difficult winter for the NHS if at risk groups fail to get their jabs

Daniel Mcneil

Getting the winter vaccination

COVID-19 booster and flu vaccine programme being rolled out

The majority of this winter’s flu and Covid-19 vaccinations are expected to be administered by GPs and community pharmacies

NI public urged take up offer of flu and Covid vaccines this winter

“Being vaccinated against both viruses will not only help to protect you and those around you from flu and Covid-19, but will help protect everyone from a potentially devastating double threat this winter which could also impact on the services within our health and social care system.”

Winter vaccinations campaign will offer flu and Covid jabs to more than 1m in NI

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Successful vaccine rollout has pushed Northern Ireland back towards normality

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

Care home outbreaks have reached record levels in Northern Ireland, new figures show

Record care home outbreaks but vaccines mean 'very few' becoming severely ill

A Lufthansa Flight Crew in traditional Bavarian costume celebrate their first flight to the USA in two years.

The USA has lifted their travel ban for fully vaccinated UK travellers

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

Health Minister Robin Swann at Queen's University Belfast last week at the opening of a vaccination marquee

New Covid-19 vaccination push as students return to campus

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...

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Antrim and Newtownabbey Covid Aware Confidence Mark scheme draws 290 businesses

Almost 290 retail and hospitality businesses in Antrim and Newtownabbey have participated in a Covid Aware Confidence Mark scheme.

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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

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 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...

Health minister Robin Swann says the numbers recorded on Saturday provide a stark reminder of the devastating impact that this pandemic can have

Robin Swann warns of Covid dangers as eight more people in NI die with it

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Northern Ireland’s vaccine milestone shows benefit of leaving the EU

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...

PACEMAKER BELFAST 29/03/2021 The first vaccination has been delivered after the SSE Arena in Belfast opened as a mass vaccination centre on Monday. Up to 1,850 vaccines are due to be administered at the venue on Monday. It is expected that 40,000 people could be vaccinated each week at the arena, where the AstraZeneca jab will be used. Health officials plan to operate the vaccination service at the venue up to 14 hours a day, seven days a week PHOTO STEPHEN DAVISON/PACEMAKER PRESS

More than third of NI adults have had both doses of Covid vaccine

Testing for Covid 19.

76 positive cases of Covid-19 detected in last 24 hours and NO deaths

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

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...

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 ...

There have been more than 500,000 coronavirus vaccinations administered in Northern Ireland

‘Bumper weeks’ ahead as NI coronavirus vaccine roll-out hits 500,000 doses

Health care workers with a Covid patient in intensive care. Rev Bruce writes: "Healthcare heroes, who labour day and night on the frontline have held back the tide in hospitals and care homes. With vaccine-designers, cleaners, cooks, and carers, we are surrounded by heroes"

Presbyterian Moderator: Pandemic heroes remind us that the Bible is full of hero

Rev Dr Liz Hughes.

NI clergywoman raises awareness of lack of COVID-19 vaccine for world’s poorest

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...

The scam poses as an invite to receive a Covid-19 vaccination (Photo: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images)

The NHS has warned against a new Covid-19 vaccination scam - what to look out fo...

People who refused to have the vaccine will continue to be at risk (Photo: Getty Images)

Scientists warn those who refuse Covid jab won’t be protected by herd immunity -...

Up to 1 in 5 UK care home workers could be refusing a Covid vaccine

Tony Blair: We must get the vaccine rollout right

This is how long you must wait after your Covid vaccine before seeing friends an...

Scientists have created a new online guide to fight Covid vaccine myths - what y...

The present Taoiseach Micheal Martin seems reasonable, though the bar was not set high by his predecessor, writes John Gemmell. We can do business with him, but not via his Shared Island Unit

We need to be positive and minimise harm of new Irish Sea border

Eleven more people with Covid-19 have died

Eleven more people with Covid-19 have died in Northern Ireland

Covid mutations sound scary, but there’s no need to panic - a virologist explain...