30th january 2021

TWO doses of the Pfizer vaccine stop nearly 100% of coronavirus infections, new Israeli research shows.

Out of the 700,000 Israelis who've received both doses of the jab, only 300 later contracted covid and just 16 needed hospital treatment.

And in a further bonus, research shows the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is effective in preventing the highly infectious so-called British mutation.

The news comes as it was revealed the UK will get another 120m coronavirus vaccine doses after securing 60m from US firm Novavax.

The Novavax jab will be manufactured in Stockton-on-Tees for the summer - it has shown a whopping 86% efficacy against the new UK strain.

A hero NHS doctor was killed by coronavirus after telling friends “this isn’t a time for cowards” when they begged him to step back from ICU.

Gamal Osman, 63, died in the early hours of yesterday after being rushed to intensive care when he contracted Covid-19.

The dad-of-seven lost his brother to the virus in September last year and friends and family begged him to minimise his risk by reducing his commitments.

However, the heroic North Bristol NHS Trust doctor told colleagues “this isn’t a time for cowards” and continued to work.

Sadly he tested positive for coronavirus just three weeks before the vaccine was given to frontline staff.