KEEPING track of the ups and downs of the pandemic can be tiring, with new information and changes on a regular basis.

In case you missed anything along the way, we’ve put together the Covid-19 headlines (good and bad!) in Andover this week to help you get caught up:

Coronavirus vaccines could reduce chances of hospitalisation by as much as 94 per cent just four weeks after the first dose, new studies suggested on Monday.

Experts have analysed Covid-19 hospital admissions in Scotland among people who have had their first jab compared to those who had not yet received a vaccine.

Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh, Strathclyde, Aberdeen, Glasgow and St Andrews and Public Health Scotland (PHS) looked at data on people who had received either the Pfizer/BioNTech jab or the one developed by scientists at the University of Oxford with AstraZeneca.

Four weeks after receiving the initial dose, the Oxford jab appeared to reduce a person’s risk of hospital admission by 94%.

On Monday it was revealed that a mass testing programme was to be rolled out across Hampshire this week with a site set up in Andover.

Town residents and employees will now be able to get rapid coronavirus tests at Picket Twenty sports ground.

It comes as the government has given the green light to a bid submitted by councils in Hampshire.

The six-week scheme will aim to identify asymptomatic people.

Those who have to leave home for work and  who are not covered by existing workplace testing schemes will have access to rapid lateral flow tests.

On Monday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed the government’s lockdown exit strategy for England.

The ‘road map’ compiles four stages, with a potential lifting of all restrictions by June 21.

Hundreds of adults with learning disabilities on GP registers in north Hampshire will be prioritised for a coronavirus vaccine following new advice from Government advisers on Wednesday.

Some adults with severe learning disabilities have already received their first jab or were due to be invited for theirs in the next stage of the rollout in England, but disability campaigners and charities had warned this left many with less severe conditions at risk from the virus.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation said that all adults on the GP learning disability register should be invited for a jab alongside others in priority group six – people aged 16-64 with underlying health conditions.