By Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization s global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX delivered its first COVID-19 shots on Wednesday, as the race to get doses to the world s poorest people and tame the pandemic accelerates. A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed in Ghana s capital Accra, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children s agency UNICEF said in a joint statement. The delivery comes almost a year after the WHO first described the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic and eight months after the launch of the COVAX initiative, aimed at pooling funds from wealthier countries and non-profits to develop a vaccine and distribute it equitably around the world. The shots, part of an initial tranche of deliveries for several low and middle-income countries, will be used to kick-start a vaccination drive that will prioritise frontline health workers and others at hig
Published February 23. 2021 7:41PM
Kelan Lyons, The Connecticut Mirror
Three weeks into the Department of Correction’s vaccinations of the incarcerated population, 837 inmates less than 10% of the 9,034 people in prisons and jails as of Feb. 22 have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The department received another 500 doses Tuesday morning. Department Director of External Affairs Karen Martucci said the DOC has used all of the shots it has received and is seeking more.
“We roll them out as they come in,” she said.
The DOC began vaccinating the 27 incarcerated individuals age 75 or older in early February and then began vaccinating people between the ages of 65 and 74.
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As a business reporter, I write about small businesses opening and closing, manufacturing, food and drink, labor issues and economic data. I particularly love writing about the impact of state and federal policy on local businesses. I also do some education reporting, covering colleges in southeastern Connecticut and regional K-12 issues.
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy reported 251 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday compared with 353 the day before, the health ministry said, while the number of new infections fell to 14,931 from 15,479. Some 306,078 coronavirus tests were carried out, compared with a previous 297,128, the ministry said. Italy has registered 95,486 deaths linked to coronavirus since the first outbreak last February. That is the second-highest death toll in Europe after Britain and the seventh-highest in the world. The country has reported around 2.8 million cases of infection. The number of patients in hospital, excluding those in intensive care, was 17,725 on Saturday, compared with 17,831 a day earlier. There were 137 new admissions to intensive care units, down from 151 on Friday. The total number of intensive care patients rose slightly to 2,063 from a previous 2,059. At the height of Italy s second wave of the epidemic, in the first half of November, hospital admissions were rising by about 1,000 per d
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will not consider re-opening its hospitality sector before mid-summer due to the high level of COVID-19 infections in the country, Prime Minister Micheál Martin said on Saturday. Bars, restaurants, cafes and hotels have been closed in Ireland for much of the past 12 months, with the latest national lockdown in place since late December. The country has the 16th highest rate of COVID-19 infections of the 30 countries monitored by the European Centre for Disease Control. It reported 250 cases per 100,000 people in the 14 days to Friday, less than one fifth of its mid-January peak, official data showed. But the government has said it must be cautious about reopening as around 90% of cases are of a more transmissible strain of the virus first discovered in Britain. No consideration will be given to opening hospitality until mid-summer . the numbers of the virus are far too high, Martin said in an Irish language interview with state broadcaster RTE. Any easing of