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UNICEF UK’s action has angered a British politician, accusing the United Nations Children’s Fund of playing a “political stunt.”
Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg said Thursday in the Commons: “I think it’s a real scandal that UNICEF should be playing politics in this way when it is meant to be looking after people in the poorest, the most deprived countries in the world, where people are starving, where there are famines and there are civil wars . It is a political stunt of the lowest order.”
Europe pushes for vaccine rollout, US deaths hit new peak France said it would receive around 1.16 million vaccine doses by year-end, with a further 2.3 million coming over the next two months. Picture: 123rf.
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BERLIN, Germany - European nations vowed Wednesday to get their coronavirus vaccination campaigns rolling before the end of the year, while the United States recorded a shocking new peak of more than 3,700 deaths in one day.
As surges in infections prompted tighter restrictions across several countries, Germany said it will begin vaccinations on December 27 a date expected to be matched across the European Union.
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Pressure has been mounting on the EU since Britain and the US started their immunisation programmes, using a vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. POOL/AFP
Pressure mounts for EU as Britain, US rollout vaccine
Thu, 17 December 2020
European nations vowed on December 16 to get their coronavirus vaccination campaigns rolling before the end of the year, while the US recorded a shocking new peak of more than 3,700 deaths in one day.
As surges in infections prompted tighter restrictions across several countries, Germany said it will begin vaccinations on December 27 – a date expected to be matched across the EU.
France said it would receive around 1.16 million vaccine doses by year-end, with a further 2.3 million coming over the next two months.