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Free flu vaccination campaign launched as cases peak

Rank
Ran
37h
Updated
3d ago
Final
Outlets
4
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
4

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The Independent United Kingdom · English 1 Oct, 14:13 UTC

The only English report

Read it also in Lietuvių (1) · Română (1) · 中文 (1) · +2 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 38 hours.

1 2 3 4
0h 12h 24h 36h

Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Liberty Times, 1 Oct, 03:06 UTC.
  2. Second country: United Kingdom, with The Independent.
  3. Second region: Europe, with The Independent.
  4. Last article: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

39 of 39 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

25%75%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
  • Europe 3 outlets · 3 countries · 75%

First movers

  1. Liberty Times 1 Oct, 03:06 UTC
  2. The Independent +11h 7m
  3. HotNews +30h 39m
  4. LRT +38h 9m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 4 outlets, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Taiwan. Europe 3: Lithuania, Romania, United Kingdom. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
English, Lithuanian, Romanian, Chinese.
Timeline
Earliest article Liberty Times, 1 Oct 2026, 03:06 UTC. First seen 1 Oct 2026, 03:20 UTC. Last seen 2 Oct 2026, 17:15 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news, unsure. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
None now: last seen more than 48 hours ago, so off the ranking. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Chain
Continued by Why you should think about getting your flu shot right now; People receive first flu vaccines as cases rise. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
2 Oct 2026 394 3.01 4 4 3 3 4.0

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Started 1 Oct, 03:20 UTC · Updated 2 Oct, 17:15 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Liberty Times Taiwan 1 Oct, 05:28 UTC
    流感疫情本週達高峰!公費疫苗即起開打 健康幣上路1小時逾2.3萬人註冊
    +1 more articleHide 1 more article
    • 流感新冠疫苗10/1開放公費接種!出國賞楓跨年前「提早2週打」才夠力 1 Oct, 03:06 UTC

Europe 3 outlets

  • LRT Lithuania 2 Oct, 17:15 UTC
    Kvėpavimo takų infekcijas gali sukelti įvairūs virusai: ar verta skiepytis nuo jų visų?
  • The Independent United Kingdom 2 Oct, 15:27 UTC
    Why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu – and where you can get vaccinated in US
    +4 more articlesHide 4 more articles
    • Why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu – and where you can get vaccinated in US 2 Oct, 15:24 UTC
    • Here's why experts say now is an ideal time to protect yourself from flu 2 Oct, 10:22 UTC
    • Patients can book free Covid-19 and flu jabs – here’s who is eligible 1 Oct, 15:34 UTC
    • GP urges people to book a free flu jab – even if they’re healthy and under 65 1 Oct, 14:13 UTC
  • HotNews Romania 2 Oct, 09:45 UTC
    Cine se poate vaccina antigripal gratuit. Recomadările Ministerului Sănătății
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