UK sets up temporary morgues, first vaccines reach Guantanamo Bay & other global 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.
Shubhangi Misra 13 January, 2021 12:56 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 9.2 crore cases and more than 19 lakh deaths.
Amid a devastating wave, overwhelmed UK hospitals have run out of space for the dead, forcing the administration to store bodies in temporary morgues. Brazil researchers have found the vaccine by China’s Sinovac Biotech to be only 50.4 per cent effective while Australian scientists believe AstraZeneca’s vaccine will fail to provide herd immunity.
And that answer was 10 million. And we are continuing and having many, many conversations with them. At the moment, that s what it is, and, frankly, there are other countries in the world that need it more than we do right now.
Asked about the Moderna vaccine, Professor Kelly said it takes two parties to sign and the company had to agree to supply doses, something that was still in negotiation.
Asked whether pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson was unwilling to supply any of its vaccine to Australia, he said there were issues that we were not able to agree on but he could not comment further because the talks were confidential.
Lamenting the death of the gentlemanâs game
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Lamenting the death of the gentlemanâs game
I played cricket for more than 30 years. I saw all of the 1946/47 Boxing Day Test, saw Bradman make 100 and watched all the greats that became the ââInvinciblesââ in England in 1948. What heroes for any boy to try to emulate. There was a saying in those days when referring to unsportsmanlike or untoward behaviour as âânot being cricketââ. It was as if the game of cricket was indeed a moral code.
On Tuesday, the Australasian Virology Society confirmed to
The Age and
The Sydney Morning Herald that it supported an immediate pause in plans to roll out the AstraZeneca vaccine until research proved it was effective enough to achieve herd immunity.
But following a furious internal debate, the president of the virology society contacted
The Age and the
Herald late on Tuesday evening to say it had changed its position and no longer opposed the rollout of the vaccine.
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When asked why the society was changing its official position at the last moment, its president, Professor Gilda Tachedjian, said: “That’s for us to know and you to find out.
How do the COVID-19 variants found in the UK and South Africa affect the illness? Why are they more infectious? And will they make you sicker?
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A transmission electron microscope image of SARS-CoV-2 the virus that causes COVID-19. Variants have emerged in South Africa and the UK.
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Key points:
The UK and South African variants of COVID-19 have the same mutation in their spike, but are two different variants because of other changes
Early indicators suggest they are more transmissible, but probably don’t make people more ill