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NEW DELHI India Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Saturday that Delhi appears to have cleared the third wave of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It appears that the third wave of COVID-19 in Delhi is now ending. Around 90,000 daily tests are being conducted in Delhi today. This is the highest number of daily tests in the country, Kejriwal told an online briefing.
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MADRID Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said Friday that vaccinations against COVID-19 will begin in Spain on Dec. 27. If Europe has agreed that vaccination begins in a coordinated manner, in Spain we are going to start the first possible day, Illa said at a press conference.
Spain s Parliament Votes To Legalize Euthanasia
The bill will now continue its legislative journey, facing a vote in the Senate where it is also expected to pass.
MADRID (AP) Spain’s parliament voted Thursday to approve a bill that will allow physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia for long-suffering patients of incurable diseases or unbearable permanent conditions.
The bill, which was backed by Spain’s left-wing coalition government and several other parties, passed in a 198-138 vote. The conservative Popular Party and the far-right Vox party voted “No.”
The bill will now continue its legislative journey, facing a vote in the Senate where it is also expected to pass. According to the draft of the law approved by the lower house, it won’t go into effect until three months after being published in the government gazette.
Spain to begin vaccinating against coronavirus on Dec. 27 By Belén Carreño
Spain s Health Minister Salvador Illa attends a news conference at Hospital Clinic in Barcelona
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s vaccination campaign against the coronavirus will begin on Dec. 27, a day after the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are due to arrive in the country, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Friday.
Spain will receive a “significant” number of vaccines in the first delivery, Illa said, without being able to specify the exact quantity. (Reporting by Nathan Allen and Clara-Laeila Laudette, editing by Andrei Khalip)
2020-12-19 02:05:33 GMT2020-12-19 10:05:33(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
MADRID, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said Friday that vaccinations against COVID-19 will begin in Spain on Dec. 27.
The first vaccinations will be using the BioNTech Pfizer vaccine, with the first doses arriving in Spain on Dec. 26. If Europe has agreed that vaccination begins in a coordinated manner, in Spain we are going to start the first possible day, Illa said at a press conference.
The health minister said that he is waiting for European authorities to confirm the number of doses that Spain will receive, but promised that it will be an equitable distribution.
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