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India Authorizes 2 COVID-19 Vaccines
The country’s drugs regulator gave emergency authorization for the U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca and a locally developed one.
Aniruddha Ghosal and Sheikh Saaliq
NEW DELHI (AP) India authorized two COVID-19 vaccines on Sunday, paving the way for a huge inoculation program to stem the coronavirus pandemic in the world’s second most populous country.
The country’s drugs regulator gave emergency authorization for the vaccine developed by Oxford University and U.K.-based drugmaker AstraZeneca, and another developed by the Indian company Bharat Biotech.
Drugs Controller General Dr. Venugopal G. Somani said that both vaccines would be administered in two dosages. He said the decision to approve the vaccines was made after “careful examination” by the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, India’s pharmaceutical regulator.
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A pastor of the Starrville Methodist Church died in the shooting.
WINONA, Texas (AP) A 21-year-old man who hid from police in an East Texas church was charged with first-degree murder and felony assault in a shooting that left the pastor dead and two other people injured Sunday, a local sheriff said.
Authorities had been using dogs and drones to search for the man late Saturday in woods near Winona following a car chase, and the pastor of the nearby Starrville Methodist Church discovered him hiding in a church bathroom Sunday morning, Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith said at a news conference.
Minority-Owned Companies Waited Months For PPP Loans, Data Shows
White business owners were able to get COVID relief loans earlier than minority owners, according to an Associated Press report.
Joyce M. Rosenberg and Justin Myers
NEW YORK (AP) Thousands of minority-owned small businesses were at the end of the line in the government’s coronavirus relief program as many struggled to find banks that would accept their applications or were disadvantaged by the terms of the program.
Data from the Paycheck Protection Program released Dec. 1 and analyzed by The Associated Press show that many minority owners desperate for a relief loan didn’t receive one until the PPP’s last few weeks while many more white business owners were able to get loans earlier in the program .
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“One year,” the “High Fidelity” star wrote alongside a black-and-white photo from their star-studded wedding at her father Lenny Kravitz’s home in Paris.
In his own post, Glusamn gushed about his “best friend” Kravitz, writing that he’ll “do anything and everything for you until the day I die.”
“One year. ‼️❔ ❕Not the year we expected. but I feel like if we can make it through this, we can take on anything,” he said in the since-deleted post, according to People. “I love you. More than anything.”
“You’re my best friend. you crack me up and you melt my heart. you call me out on my bulls and you challenge me to grow. I love you for that. And I’ll do anything and everything for you until the day I die,” he added. “Now let’s go save the world @zoeisabellakravitz.”