COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark will allow more schools across the country to reopen and ease some restrictions on large shops in response to an improving situation in the coronavirus epidemic, authorities said on Tuesday. Secondary educations such as boarding schools will be allowed to reopen on Monday while large stores would be allowed to take in more customers, the Justice Ministry said in a statement. Earlier on Tuesday, Health Minister Magnus Heunicke said the reproduction value for the coronavirus was at 1.0, meaning the epidemic is not growing. Thus, we have the basis for further controlled reopening, he said on Twitter. The contact number, also known as the R-value, indicates how many people one infected person will pass the virus on to. Denmark has registered around 215,000 infections in total, with just under 2,400 corona-related deaths. Heunicke also said the more contagious B.1.1.7. variant, first identified in Britain, was found in around 80% of all positive cases. Denmark
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson has told Canada many times it is having challenges making its COVID-19 vaccine, which Ottawa approved only last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday. Trudeau spoke hours after Reuters revealed the company had informed the European Union it was facing supply issues that may complicate plans to deliver 55 million doses to the bloc in the second quarter of the year. We have heard in many conversations with Johnson & Johnson that there are challenges around production of . the vaccine, Trudeau told a briefing. We will continue to engage with them and we look forward to receiving doses as soon as possible . Ottawa has pre-ordered 10 million doses of the J&J vaccine, the fourth different shot that regulators have approved, with options to order up to 28 million more. Canada has recorded a total of 22,276 deaths from COVID-19 and 890,698 cases. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; Editing by Marguerita Choy)
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As The Day s military/defense reporter, I work to explain complex issues in a way the everyday citizen can understand. On any given day, I can be found poring over defense budgets, writing a feature on a local veteran or documenting the impact of deployments on those left behind. I even spent two nights aboard a submarine.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Waiving intellectual property rights will not be enough to resolve COVID-19 vaccine access issues, the developers of the Oxford/Astrazeneca and the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines said on Monday, ahead of a meeting on the topic at the World Trade Organization this week. I don t think just making IP fully available goes anywhere close to solving the problem., said the University of Oxford professor Sarah Gilbert at a World Health Organization virtual press conference. BioNTech s Chief Medical Officer Dr Özlem Türeci said at the same briefing: Patents are one thing, but there are so many other things we have to ensure. (Reporting by Emma Farge, Silke Koltrowitz and Toby Chopra; Editing by Hugh Lawson)
By Luis Felipe Castilleja and Emma Pinedo BARCELONA (Reuters) - Holding signs such as Respect my existence or expect my resistance, thousands of women on Monday protested across Spain against gender violence and in support of equal rights at International Women s Day rallies. The largest protest was in Barcelona where several thousand assembled in the city centre, mostly women wearing purple clothes and with banners saying: It will be a happy day when none of us is missing. The protest was authorized but attendance was capped at 3,500 people, who had to maintain social distance due to the pandemic. In Madrid, authorities banned Women s Day marches after criticism that last year s rallies helped spread the coronavirus. But defying the ban, around 50 women protested at the city s famous Puerta del Sol square, with some carrying placards that read: Male violence is also a pandemic. Police stood by as protesters walked around the square and lit a purple smoke flare. We are here to claim th