The UK is preparing to give a booster dose of the vaccine in anticipation of another wave this coming winter that has brought Covid through vaccination. The government is planning to make booster doses safer for the elderly and those suffering from other ailments. As part of this, the government has taken steps to collect and store more vaccines.

Health Secretary Sajid Javed has said the UK has ordered the purchase of an additional 35 million doses of Pfizer vaccine to make it available by 2022. So far, the UK has purchased 540 million Covid doses from eight different brands from various companies.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, which met last month, had recommended to the government that those over the age of 50 be given a third dose of booster dose if needed from September. But the vaccine committee has not yet made a final decision on the matter. An additional 35 million Pfizer vascines are being purchased to ensure that there is no shortage of vaccines whenever a favorable decision is made.

The final decision on the booster will be based on the study reports on how long the safety of the first two doses will last. The UK is also preparing to run ahead of the rest of the world in terms of booster dosage, which has produced its own vaccine and started vaccination first and has driven Covid to some extent.

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The Robert Koh Institute has reported that 10,027 people in Germany have been infected with Covid despite taking two doses of the Covid vaccine. According to the German Government’s Institute for Infectious Disease Prevention Research, 7,802 people have been vaccinated against the Pfizer vaccine. Covid also affected those who received two doses of the other Covid vaccine, Johnson & Johnson – 1385, AstraZeneca – 682, and Modena – 396.

The Robert Koh Institute says that despite taking two doses of the vaccine in Germany, most of those infected with Covid are not worried about receiving the Pfizer vaccine. This is just a natural proportion of the 78% of the 100 million vaccine doses distributed in Germany up to the 8th of this month being the Pfizer vaccine.

The figures are published by the Robert Koh Institute from February this year. Covid affected 15.84 lakh people in the country during this period. Of these, only 0.68% were confirmed by Covid despite receiving two doses of the Covid vaccine. Most of these are delta variants.

As of August 10, 55.6 percent of the German population had received two doses of the Covid vaccine. Those who took at least one dose were 62.7%.

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Sicily, an Italian island, may have had the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe – 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8F). On Wednesday, regional authorities reported the reading near Syracuse, which will be validated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

According to the World Meteorological Organization, the current official record in Europe is 48C, which was set in 1977 in Athens, Greece. The Italian health ministry has issued “red” alerts for extreme heat in various regions, with the number of cities at danger anticipated to climb from eight to fifteen by Friday.

Wildfires have swept across southern Italy as a result of the Mediterranean heatwave, which has seen several countries experience their worst temperatures in decades, with Sicily, Calabria, and Puglia being the worst-affected regions.

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