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Colorado reports first known case of COVID-19 variant in US
He added: "At the pace the vaccination programme is moving now, it's going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people". On a state level, Texas officials reported record-high hospitalizations Tuesday, with more than 11,700 Covid-19 patients across the state while Georgia Gov. [Full Article...]
Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Approved In The UK
The UK already approved the use earlier this month of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which was developed by German scientists. The government will begin rolling out the affordable and easy-to-store vaccine beginning Monday. On the morning of December 30, the UK Government announced it had accepted the recommendation from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to author... [Full Article...]
Covid-19: 7 who arrived from United Kingdom test positive for mutated strain
In the last 24 hours, 20,549 persons were found to be COVID-19 positive in the country. To date, several positive samples that may suggest the VOC 202012/01 variant are being sequenced by the CNR laboratories. On Sunday, the Regional Secretariat for Health and Civil Protection of Madeira confirmed that it had detected the presence of the new strain of SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, in trav... [Full Article...]
Rep. Andy Biggs: NDAA veto override a crying shame
It puts congressional Republicans in a tricky spot to navigate. In the House, a total of 130 Republicans, 2 independents and two Democrats opposed raising pay checks to $2000. Sanders said he views the larger stimulus checks as key for Americans battered by a worsening pandemic. The House's approval - made on a 275-134 bipartisan vote - is the latest in the unusual saga of the second round of c... [Full Article...]
COVID-19 vaccine frontrunners
More than 150 potential vaccines are being developed and tested globally to stop the COVID-19 pandemic, with 48 in human trials, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Pfizer and Moderna last week reported preliminary results from late-stage trials showing their vaccines were nearly 95 percent effective. "There is more to come from AstraZeneca ", she added. [Full Article...]
MDH Reports 988 New Cases of COVID-19 Statewide
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . With the new numbers, there are now 622,329 total covid cases and 15,353 total deaths in the state. In other cases, the high flow of oxygen has caused the pipes to freeze. Public health officials and healthcare workers have said that they don't see the surge peaking anytime soon and they are concerned that the healthcare systems may not have... [Full Article...]
US detects first case of COVID-19 variant in Colorado
The Colorado man who was infected is in his 20s, is isolating in Elbert County and appears to have no travel history, according to Gov. Jared Polis . The nation's first variant case was identified in southeast England. The Oxford-developed AstraZeneca vaccine is believed to be effective against the new strain, as the scientists, according to what AstraZeneca chief executive Pascal Soriot tol... [Full Article...]
COVID vaccine dry run held at five session sites
Singapore has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine , the first batch of which arrived on December 21. The first round of vaccinations are for those who are over 80 and most at risk from the virus, as well as frontline health workers. [Full Article...]