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9 & 10 News December 17, 2020 BERLIN — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is appealing to rich nations to support the purchase of coronavirus vaccines for poor countries. Guterres says the U.N.-backed COVAX program needs $5 billion until the end of January. The program, created to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccines for all countries, currently faces a shortfall of more than $20 billion, he says. “At the same time, I see countries that have bought more vaccines than several times the vo...

A Russian medical worker finishes the procedure after administering a shot of Russias Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin) Britains Prince Charles, wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus, meets with front line health and care workers administering and receiving the COVID-19 vaccine during a visit to the Gloucestershire Vaccination Centre at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, in Glouscestershire, England Thur...

BERLIN (AFP) - A lawmaker from Germanys far-right AfD party, who sparked furore for wearing a mask with holes to a Bundestag sitting, has been hospitalised because of the coronavirus, German media reported on Thursday (Dec 17). Thomas Seitz, 53, is "according to his doctors expected to make a swift recovery," national news agency DPA reported, quoting a statement. Seitz was in November threatened with a fine by deputy speaker of parliament Claudia Roth, when he took to the stand in the Bundesta...