Tag: COVID-19

• Tuesday, December 29th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Pfizer delay in shipments affects eight European countries

  

  Pfizer has postponed the delivery of new batches of its coronavirus vaccine to eight European nations including Spain, the Spanish health ministry said on Monday, a day after the European Union began its immunization campaign.

• Tuesday, December 29th 2020 - 09:01 UTC

  China censorship: four-year jail term for journalist who reported on the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan

  

  A Chinese court handed a four-year jail term on Monday to a citizen-journalist who reported from the central city of Wuhan at the peak of last year's coronavirus outbreak, on grounds of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” her lawyer said.

• Tuesday, December 29th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  With Trump debilitated and Republicans divided, Congress running the US

  

  The Democratic-led US House of Representatives voted 275-134 to meet President Donald Trump’s demand for US$2,000 Covid-19 relief checks on Monday, sending the measure on to an uncertain future in the Republican-controlled Senate.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Argentina will begin inoculation with the Russian vaccine on Tuesday

  

  Argentina will begin vaccinating its citizens against coronavirus on Tuesday using the recently delivered Russian Sputnik V vaccine, the government said on Saturday, following its approval by health authorities for emergency use.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  WHO chief warns Covid-19 will not be the last pandemic: climate change and animal welfare must be addressed

  

  The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health are “doomed” without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health Organization's chief said.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Europe launched a mass Covid-19 inoculation drive on Sunday; 6,25 million should be vaccinated by end of the year

  

  Europe launched a mass Covid-19 vaccination drive on Sunday with pensioners and medics lining up to get the first shots to see off a pandemic that has crippled economies and claimed more than 1.7 million lives worldwide.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:06 UTC

  Trump finally signs into law a US$ 2,3 trillion pandemic and spending package; stimulus checks of US$ 2,000

  

  US President Donald Trump on Sunday signed into law a US$2.3 trillion pandemic aid and spending package, restoring unemployment benefits to millions of Americans and averting a federal government shutdown in a crisis of his own making.

• Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Indonesia asks Brazil for data on the Chinese vaccine

  

  With the slow development of its own phase three clinical trial of a Covid-19 vaccine candidate, Indonesia said it has asked for data from Brazil, where a similar trial is progressing smoothly.

• Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Pope Francis calls on political and business leaders to make the Covid-19 vaccines available to all

  

  Pope Francis in his Christmas message on Friday said political and business leaders must not allow market forces and patent laws to take priority over making Covid-19 vaccines available to all, condemning nationalism and ”the virus of radical individualism.”

• Saturday, December 26th 2020 - 07:22 UTC

  Queen Elizabeth's message of hope for all those suffering because of Covid-19

  

  All many people want for Christmas this year is a simple hug, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth said in her annual festive message, saying it would be hard for those who lost loved ones to COVID-19 pandemic or were separated by curbs on social mixing.