Modernaâs Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Arriving at Strained Hospitals Across the U.S.
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A variant of the virus that is spreading in Britain has prompted countries to bar travelers from there. Some U.S. governors are also pushing for restrictions.
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The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine arrived at sites across the country Monday. Yanitza Reeves, a medical worker, received one of the first doses at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, N.J.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Just one week after the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine were administered in the United States, a new batch of vaccines fanned out across the country on Monday, an urgently needed expansion of a vaccination effort that is expected to reach vulnerable populations and rural areas where hospitals are strained as soon as this week.
Modernaâs Coronavirus Vaccine Begins Arriving at Strained Hospitals Across the U.S.
Last Updated
Jan. 15, 2021, 4:15 p.m. ETJan. 15, 2021, 4:15 p.m. ET
A variant of the virus that is spreading in Britain has prompted countries to bar travelers from there. Some U.S. governors are also pushing for restrictions.
This briefing has ended. Follow our
The Moderna Covid-19 vaccine arrived at sites across the country Monday. Yanitza Reeves, a medical worker, received one of the first doses at Christ Hospital in Jersey City, N.J.Credit.Bryan Anselm for The New York Times
Just one week after the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine were administered in the United States, a new batch of vaccines fanned out across the country on Monday, an urgently needed expansion of a vaccination effort that is expected to reach vulnerable populations and rural areas where hospitals are strained as soon as this week.
This greatly hampers the fight against #COVID19 in a country with an acute shortage of doctors, it added.
Kenya reported 349 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, with 6 fatalities, bringing the number of confirmed cases to 94,500 and the number of deaths to 1,639, the Health ministry said.
The virus has been spreading to rural areas where the public health system is creaking and limited intensive care units (ICU) are full, which has led to patients being turned away, medics told Reuters this month.
Nearly three quarters of Kenya s ICU beds are in the two largest cities, Nairobi and Mombasa. In August, doctors in most public hospitals in the capital Nairobi went on strike for a week to protest against delays in salary payments and lack of protective equipment when treating patients who may have COVID-19.
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Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE’s Covid-19 vaccine won the backing of a key European review panel, clearing the way for inoculations to start before year-end.
Europe and regions from Canada to Hong Kong suspended travel links to the U.K., as a full lockdown came into force in London and southeast England to contain a mutation to the coronavirus.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has asked the three airlines that fly from the U.K. directly to New York to add the state to a list of 120 countries requiring pre-boarding Covid tests. He said he believes the new strain is already circulating in New York.