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Vaccine rollout in Florida, virus woes in Israel despite lockdown & other Covid news
As the Covid-19 pandemic shows no signs of letting up, ThePrint highlights the most important stories on the crisis from across the globe.
Kairvy Grewal 11 January, 2021 3:52 pm IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: The novel coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate countries across the world the latest count being over 9 crore cases and more than 19 lakh deaths.
Florida has decided to inoculate people aged 65 years and above for the coronavirus first. However, demand for the vaccine has ‘overwhelmed’ supply and people are ‘frustrated’. Meanwhile, even after four days of strict lockdown in Israel, the percentage of people testing positive for Covid-19 remains high. And polls conducted in France have suggested that 60 per cent of the country’s population don’t want to get vaccinated.
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JOHANNESBURG - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday said the majority of African countries were lagging behind when it came to submitting their vaccine rollout plans - with many warning they wouldn t make next week’s deadline and needed an extension.
The WHO said each country needed to inform the global health body what priority groups they wanted to jab first, which vaccine they preferred, how they were to execute the plan, and whether they needed assistance.
The organisation’s Dr Phiona Atuhebwe - who is the Africa new vaccines introduction medical officer and vaccinologist - said some countries still needed help with their plans.