Released results of its latestage trial. The Pharmaceutical Company said that its Coronavirus Vaccine is up to 90 effective, depending on the dosage. It plans to seek emergency use authorization from the world health organization. Astrazeneca becomes the third drug maker hoping to distribute a vaccine following pfizer and moderna. Meantime the u. S. Has recorded 20 Straight Days of at least 100,000 daily covid cases. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. On friday, infections hit a new daily record of 196,000 cases, but there is hope. The First Americans could be vaccinated in just weeks. Bofta yimam is in washington. So, bofta, it is great that it looks like we have a vaccine on the horizon, but you have to make sure you dont catch the virus first. And a lot of people are ignoring the cdcs recommendations to stay home for thanksgiving. Reporter thats right, annmarie. 50 million americans are expected to travel for thanksgiving, and experts warn that crowds at airports could lea
Welcome to d. W. News asia. Glad you could join us. Leaving hong kong, prodemocracy campaigner joshua wong and 2 others could be facing long jail terms after pleading guilty to protest charges. The 3 were taken into custody in hong kong earlier today. Wong and fellow activists, ivan lamb, and agnes had been charged with organizing, participating in and inciting demonstrators during a protest outside Police Headquarters last june. They could be facing up to 5 years in prison. This is what was said, as he appeared in court. What we are doing now is to explain the well freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own time point for a prayer, for the finish of walking free this case would draw the world and passion to the operative power of the criminal Justice System impartially is not a ploy by beijing crackdown and the systematic violence. Incredible. For more, im joined by former hong kong no maker and prodemo
Commissioners. We have a fairly full agenda, but everyone submitted questions on many of the presentations, and weve gotten very thorough and thoughtful answers from staff, so hopefully that means we can go through our agenda in a very efficient way and we can go to our different activities of the evening. First item is the minutes. Are there any additions or corrections on the part of the commissioners . Okay. Any comments from the public . Clerk if youre on the Public Comment line, please press star, three if youd like to make a comment on the minutes. No comments, commissioners. Okay. So is there a motion to approve the october 20, 2020, minutes of the commission . So moved. Second. Can we have a roll call vote . Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk just for everyone to know, if the if youre not speaking, then please mute yourselves, and commissioners, if youre making rustling noises, and youre not muted, i am going to mute you. So i apologize, but we want to keep the sound quality good. So
A after 3 weeks of fighting Prime Minister abi ahmed said, thousands of militia and special forces had surrendered. This follows accusations that a group killed at least 600 people in a rampage. Earlier this month, a Turkish Court has handed down life sentences for 337. People accused of an attempted coup in 2016. Many of the defendants are former Army Commanders and pilots. They were convicted of crimes including murder and attempting to overthrow the government. This is g. W. News from berlin. Follow us on twitter and instagram. D. W. News or visit our website, w dot com. Americans are gathering today for thanksgiving. Is this a super spreader of it in the making . Will know when a few weeks in the United States and here in europe, the coronavirus pandemic is now at a perilous point. New infections and cope with 1000 deaths are swelling just as the holidays begin. Germany plans to ease its lockdown in december in time for christmas. What will that mean for january . A new year of hop
You cant have to leave genes, you can have closes but not to genes. So this means that the efficacy is either 60 percent or 90 percent depending which does it take, but whatever the build they will choose, need to be fine tuned and we tested before to fall into the market. Now obviously weve heard this is the 3rd promising vaccine that has been announced in the fight against a covert. 90 weve heard of course from the vaccine from biotech and pfizer mcgurn, are russias sputnik obviously, also supposedly very effective on so many vaccines in the pipeline. You know, is there a rivalry there . Is there a competition, there . Is this good bad . Is there room for all of them . Well, this is really important question and to be honest, if this is a business for pharmaceutical being very clear, and this is certainly a market, for example, if you remember deferred wiser c. E. O. , it clearly stated that they are not going to subsidize any vaccine, just because thats not in favor of the company,