 | | | | The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is set to approve its first COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 23, a German government source told Reuters on Tuesday, putting EU countries on track to start to catch up with the United States and Britain, where immunisation campaigns are under way. | | | | | | Siyar Guldiken, still short of breath from his own battle with the coronavirus, was not able to grieve after his grandmother and uncle died of the related disease, as one of the world's worst second waves of the pandemic slammed Turkey. | | | | | | Poland has already set aside around 3 billion zlotys ($820.59 million) for its COVID-19 vaccination programme which will start in January, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Tuesday. | | | | | | Polish Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Tuesday that people should stay at home at Christmas and New Year to stop the spread of the coronavirus, as Poland plans to launch COVID-19 vaccinations soon. | | | | | | French nursing home boss Yann Reboulleau was trying to persuade 92-year-old resident Madeleine Bonnet of the merits of taking the COVID-19 vaccine, and he was having a tough time. | | | | | | Lebanon is expected to sign a deal this week for supplies of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine and is set to receive the first batch eight weeks after that, the caretaker health minister said. | | | | | | A World Health Organization senior official said on Tuesday that the agency was in talks with Pfizer to include its COVID-19 vaccine as part of an early global roll out. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | | Italy is considering more stringent nationwide coronavirus restrictions during the Christmas holidays, the health minister said on Monday, after scenes of big gatherings in many cities over the weekend raised worries of a new spike in infections. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) -Two of Britain's most influential journals for healthcare and medical professionals jointly called on the government on Tuesday to scrap plans to relax COVID-19 restrictions for five days around Christmas or risk overwhelming the health service. | | | | | | British scientists are trying to establish whether the rapid spread in southern England of a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 is linked to key mutations they have detected in the strain, they said on Tuesday. | | | | | |
