Year: 2021

Skins actress Kathryn Prescott has been left with life-changing injuries and is “lucky to be alive” after being hit by a cement truck in New York, her twin sister has said.

The Times says booster vaccines are expected to get the go-ahead early next week after data showed that they give a “several-fold increase” in vital antibodies.

FT News says the UK is preparing to become the first big country to administer “mix and match” coronavirus vaccines for its booster programme.

The Metro says Covid immunity is ‘lasting well’ for most people who are double jabbed and a mass booster programme is not necessary, a top Oxford scientist said.

‘Booster shots before world is vaccinated won’t keep UK safe’, The Guardian asks should Britain approve booster doses for broad swathes of the population?

Several of Friday’s front pages consider the expected announcement on the UK’s booster jab programme, with many expecting it to get the go-ahead next week.

Wednesday, Algerian authorities announced the arrest of 30 people on suspicion of their involvement in setting the forest fires in the country in August.

Thursday, the Israeli Occupation announced the formation of an official investigation committee to examine the loopholes that enabled six Palestinian prisoners to escape from the heavily fortified Gilboa Prison at dawn on Monday.

Court confirms last year’s four-year prison sentence against 84-year-old Rifaat al-Assad, which he may not have to serve given his advanced age.

The Metro says a teenage asylum seeker who feared the Home Office would deport him to Afghanistan killed himself, a coroner has concluded.