OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has ordered an additional 20 million doses of Pfizer Inc s coronavirus vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday after provinces complained about inadequate supplies. Trudeau told reporters that Ottawa now had agreements with Pfizer, which developed its vaccine with German partner BioNTech, and Moderna Inc for a total of 80 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccines to be delivered this year. Canada, which had initially ordered 20 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine with an option for 56 million more, now has a firm deal for 40 million doses of the two-shot vaccines. Canada s 10 provinces, which have responsibility for administering the vaccines, say supplies are being delivered far too slowly. Trudeau said that between April and June, Canada would have enough doses for 20 million people. Canada s population is just over 38 million. Trudeau also said Canada was extending an existing ban on non-essential travel with the United States until F
By Carl O Donnell and Rebecca Spalding (Reuters) - The Trump administration said on Tuesday it is releasing millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses it had been holding back for second shots and urged states to offer them to all Americans over age 65 or with chronic health conditions. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said during a news briefing that the U.S. pace of inoculations has risen to 700,000 shots per day and is expected to rise to 1 million per day within a week to 10 days. Releasing doses that have been held back should bring the total number of doses that have been made available for use in the United States to roughly 38 million, Azar said. States have already received about 25.5 million doses, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last week, a spokesman for President-elect Joe Biden said Biden, who takes office next week, would accelerate distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to jump-start lagging inoculations by
New London Another COVID-19 outbreak among city employees has left officials scrambling to cover daily recycling and trash pickup routes.
Six of 11 available employees in the Public Works Department’s solid waste division are out due to positive COVID-19 tests, Public Works Director Brian Sear said. The solid waste division manages the daily pickup of trash and recycling material from 10,000 households five routes a day, five days a week.
Additionally, employees from the division regularly haul compacted trash and recycled material in large trucks to Lisbon and Willimantic and perform a variety of other tasks, such as manning the scale at the city’s transfer station.
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.
Erica Moser
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.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A World Health Organization (WHO) team of international experts tasked with investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic will arrive in China on Jan. 14, Chinese authorities said on Monday. Lack of authorisation from Beijing had delayed the arrival of the 10-strong team on a long-awaited mission to investigate early infections, in what China s foreign ministry called a misunderstanding . The National Health Commission, which announced the arrival date, delayed from its early January schedule, did not detail the team s itinerary, however. China has been accused of a cover-up that delayed its initial response, allowing the virus to spread since it first emerged in the central city of Wuhan late in 2019. The United States has called for a transparent WHO-led investigation and criticised its terms, which allowed Chinese scientists to do the first phase of preliminary research. Ahead of the trip, Beijing has been seeking to shape the narrative about when and where