Bidens to Get Vaccine; N.Y. Cases Soar to Record: Virus Update
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(Bloomberg) U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will get vaccine doses on Monday. Vice President Mike Pence was vaccinated on live television to encourage Americans to get their shots. New York state shattered its record for the most daily cases since the start of the pandemic, reporting more than 12,000 new infections. Michigan began lifting a partial lockdown as its outbreak eases.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will work quickly toward authorizing Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine, Commissioner Stephen Hahn said. The World Health Organization said the end of global pandemic is “in sight” as vaccines begin to roll out.
Bidens to Get Vaccine; N.Y. Cases Soar to Record: Virus Update
Bloomberg 12/18/2020 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) U.S. President-elect Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, will get vaccine doses on Monday. Vice President Mike Pence was vaccinated on live television to encourage Americans to get their shots. New York state shattered its record for the most daily cases since the start of the pandemic, reporting more than 12,000 new infections. Michigan began lifting a partial lockdown as its outbreak eases.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will work quickly toward authorizing Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine, Commissioner Stephen Hahn said. The World Health Organization said the end of global pandemic is “in sight” as vaccines begin to roll out.
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FILE PHOTO: Josefa Velasco, 94, who overcame the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and lives in a care home, waves goodbye to her relatives after they talk through a glass front at the Centre Parc nursing home after Catalonia s regional authorities announced restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Barcelona, Spain August 27, 2020. REUTERS/Nacho Doce/File Photo
MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday ordered an investigation into the deaths of elderly nursing home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic as the government warned the nation was facing a possible third wave of infections.
Magistrates were asked to find out if deaths at nursing homes “were associated with political, administrative or management decisions and whether those decisions merit criminal sanctions”.
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Health personnel collect saliva samples from pupils and teachers in a school in Madrid on December 17, 2020 for a study on coronavirus transmission between children and from children to adults. Spain has been one of the countries in Europe hardest hit by the virus, with an official toll of over 48,000 dead from 1.7 million cases.
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Spain will start immunising people against the coronavirus on December 27, a day after it receives the first doses of a vaccine, Health Minister Salvador Illa said on Friday.
The announcement comes a day after European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen announced the EU would begin inoculations against Covid-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine between December 27 and 29, saying it was “Europe’s moment” in the battle against the virus.