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The World Health Organization said the focus should be on reducing Covid-19 transmissions to bring an end to hospitalisations and deaths.
A health NGO said there were over 1,000 insults, beatings and arrests against health care workers, with nearly half directly related to the coronavirus.
The strain detected in Manaus, Brazil, shares some mutations with a variant first identified in South Africa and it might respond less well to current vaccines.
Shops, bars, clubs, hotels, restaurants, gyms and hair salons would be among nearly 700,000 companies eligible for cash grants of up £18,000.
Irish prime minister Micheal Martin condemned the protest on the streets of Dublin, resulting in 23 arrests.
The explosion occurred on the second floor of the hospital at lunchtime on Saturday and 20 people were evacuated.
Oxford Street’s reputation as Europe’s premier shopping destination faces its biggest threat in decades amid a flood of store closures.
Researchers found a fourfold decrease in the risk of asymptomatic Covid-19 infection among health workers who have been jabbed for more than 12 days.
The study involving 1.2 million people in Israel confirmed that mass immunisation can break Covid-19 transmission.
‘This is an important day as we begin inoculations with the Chinese vaccines,’ Prime Minister Orban says.
Manila is open to lifting the cap on health care workers going overseas if it can get Covid-19 vaccines, but Britain said it is not interested in such a deal.
In first step, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson aims to reopen schools in March, though final stage in lifting of pandemic restrictions will not start till June at earliest.
Residents pay tribute in the country’s hard-hit north with tree plantings, church services and wreath-laying ceremonies.
It is the first time the government has given a firm target for offering all adults their initial dose.
Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday as a precautionary measure after feeling ill with an ailment that is not related to coronavirus.
Russia has already approved two Covid-19 vaccines, including the Sputnik V shot, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute.
The UK is a pilot for whether nations can do enough to end damaging lockdowns and essentially learn to live with the disease.
Without work or state aid, international students who came to the UK to realise their dreams are plunged into poverty because of the pandemic.
Mario Draghi was tapped to take the helm of Italy’s politics after the last government, led by then-prime minister Giuseppe Conte, collapsed.