UK aims to inoculate those most at risk from Covid by Easter; Spain’s king self isolating after virus contact; avoiding family gatherings at Christmas ‘best bet’, says WHO
- Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine has up to 90% efficacy
- Latest vaccine to be sold to developing countries at cost price
- French man fined for breaking lockdown to ‘smash a guy’s face in’
- Shanghai Covid outbreak ‘traced to cargo from North America’
The WHO said Monday that avoiding family gatherings would be “the safest bet” over Christmas, insisting there is no zero-risk option for traditional holiday merry-making during the coronavirus pandemic.
AFP:
The World Health Organization said Monday it had received reassurances from Beijing that international experts would soon be able to travel to China to help investigate the animal origins of Covid-19, AFP reports.
“We fully expect and have reassurances from our Chinese government colleagues that the trip to the field... will be facilitated, and as soon as possible,” WHO emergencies director Michael Ryan told a virtual press briefing.
Continue reading...from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/336XT4X
via IFTTT
via Blogger https://ift.tt/3nT7QLo
November 24, 2020 at 01:29AM
0 Comments