Coronavirus live news: Novavax effective against UK variant but less so against South African one

Trials showed jab was 89% effective in UK and 60% in South Africa; Paris to suspend jabs over shortage; Vietnam reports nine new cases. Follow latest updates

Nine Roman Catholic nuns in southern Michigan have died in January due to a Covid-19 outbreak at their retirement home, which had gone for months without a single case, officials said Thursday.

The women lived at the campus of the Adrian Dominican Sisters in Adrian, 120 kilometres southwest of Detroit. They had been teachers, nurses and pastoral ministers before retiring to a life of “prayer and presence,” said Sister Patricia Siemen, leader of the religious order.

Thousands of Australians are trying to get home, but have been stopped by quotas at the Australian border, and by scores of cancelled flights.

This is further bad news.

As directed by @GOVUK, Emirates will be suspending passenger services between from all their UK points tomorrow at 1.00pm Emirates advises that their last flights are

29JAN

EK 08 from Heathrow
EK 02 from Heathrow
EK 40 from Birmingham
EK 28 from Glasgowhttps://t.co/yc0j6NplWR https://t.co/WJ0rAqX40w

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