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► Georgia has become the fifth state to report a case of the more contagious virus strain first identified in the United Kingdom, joining Colorado, California, Florida and New York. The state s Department of Health said the case was found in an 18-year-old man with no travel history. He is isolating at home.
► The European Union’s medicines agency gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, clearing the way for a final approval from the EU’s executive commission. The EU has ordered 80 million doses of the Moderna vaccine with an option for a further 80 million.
Health workers in the UK, one of Europe’s worst-affected countries, have raised warnings that the country’s health service may not be able to cope as a new coronavirus variant gathers pace.
With critical care running at more than 100 per cent of capacity across south-east England, patients in need of intensive care face being transferred from London to hospitals as far away as Yorkshire.
But the demand on the healthcare system goes beyond bed shortages and overworked doctors and nurses: paramedics are also feeling the strain.
London’s ambulance service received as many emergency calls the day after Christmas as it did at the height of the first wave of COVID-19.
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