Specialist freezers await distribution of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccines to the NHS from a secure location in Britain this undated handout obtained Dec 5, 2020. [Photo/Agencies]
Brussels under pressure from member states to secure jabs from outside bloc
In a fresh escalation of a previous dispute, Britain has rejected claims made by the European Council president, Charles Michel, that the United Kingdom is blocking vaccine exports.
Writing in his regular weekly blog, published on Tuesday, Michel claimed the UK had made an outright ban on exports of vaccines produced on its soil.
In response, Britain s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab wrote to the president on Tuesday night describing the suggestion as completely false , and summoned the EU ambassador to complain, British media reported.
A closed Frankfurt shoe store during lockdown.Whether or not lockdowns are justifiable on public-health grounds,
they certainly represent the greatest on civil liberties in modern history. In the UK, lockdowns have contributed to the largest economic contraction in more than 300 years, as well as countless bankruptcies, and a dramatic rise in public borrowing.
This does not mean that lockdowns were the wrong policy, since they might have been necessary to prevent the National Health Service from being overwhelmed with COVID-19 critical-care patients. (And such measures are justified, proponents argue, on the grounds that they prevent infected individuals from harming
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The study showed that for those above 80, a single dose of either vaccine is more than 80 per cent effective at preventing hospitalisation around three to four weeks after the jab.
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