 | | | | LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal will have enough coronavirus jabs to inoculate the whole population, with the distribution of the vaccines kicking off as soon as they arrive in the country, hopefully before the end of the year, the head of the vaccination task-force said. | | | | | | The global scheme to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries faces a "very high" risk of failure, potentially leaving nations home to billions of people with no access to vaccines until as late as 2024, internal documents say. | | | | | | The British government resisted pressure to impose even tighter restrictions on Christmas family get-togethers on Wednesday as pubs and restaurants in London and elsewhere shut their doors amid worsening coronavirus figures. | | | | | | Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britons on Wednesday to celebrate Christmas with "extreme caution", saying that although the vaccination programme had got off to a very good start, asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 still posed a threat. | | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) -Nearly 140,000 people in the United Kingdom have received their first COVID-19 shots in the first week of roll-out of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the minister in charge of the programme said on Wednesday. | | | | | | In November, the National Black Church Initiative organized a 15-church community campaign in Baltimore to encourage Black Americans to get their flu shots. Eleven people in a city of 600,000 showed up. | | | | | | One woman waved purple burlesque feather fans while dozens cheered with beers and some sang Karaoke in the streets for one last gasp of revelry in London's partyland before the capital went into the strictest level of COVID restrictions. | | | | | | Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: | | | | | | CHICAGO (Reuters) -On Dec. 1, 2020, at 4:40 pm, Roseland Community Hospital nurse Alma Abad entered the isolation room of COVID-19 patient Florence Bolton with an iPad donated to the hospital to allow the sick to communicate with their families. | | | | | | St Petersburg is running out of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, city authorities said, as one of around half a dozen firms licenced to produce Russia's Sputnik V vaccine began deliveries across the country. | | | | | | Coronavirus infections rose by 5,625 in a day, data https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/overview from Swiss health authorities showed on Wednesday, amid calls from a senior government adviser this week to impose an immediate lockdown. | | | | | |
