coronavirus that has claimed 1.4 million lives began spreading across the globe, a number of highly promising Covid-19 vaccines are on the cusp of release.Health authorities could give a green light for emergency use within weeks, which would mark the most rapid vaccine development for a pandemic in history -- but many questions remain.When will a jab be available?After months without a visible breakthrough, everything sped up in November, when several pharmaceutical companies made encouraging preliminary announcements about the efficacy of their vaccines.The European Medicines Agency (EMA), charged with overseeing drug approval in the European Union, told AFP that it could approve the first Covid-19 vaccines by the end of the year, or.

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Comedian dies at age 38 just days after warning of horrendous Covid-19 experience

Comedian Joe Luna has died just days after he began documenting his battle with coronavirus.

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On World AIDS Day, South Africa finds hope in new treatment

JOHANNESBURG – Health officials are hoping that new, long-acting drugs to help prevent HIV infection will be a turning point for the fight against a global health threat that’s been eclipsed by the coronavirus pandemic.South African President Cyril Ramaphosa highlighted the new drug in a weekly newsletter, saying the long-term acting and injectable HIV drug has “the potential to significantly strengthen our response to the epidemic.”The region is especially hard-hit. South Africa has the biggest epidemic in the world with 7.7 million people living with HIV, according to UNAIDS.

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Coronavirus vaccine: Pfizer applies for EU emergency authorisation for its Covid-19 jab

With coronavirus cases around the world now at over 63 million, scientists have been working around the clock to develop a vaccine.

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The map that shows the one area of Greater Manchester that is now almost Covid-19 free

most recent available data.At its peak, the area had 238 confirmed positive tests in the week ending September 29 as the virus spread rapidly through the student population.It's infection rate at the time reached 2,201.1 per 100,000.Only Poynton East and Poynton West on the Stockport - Cheshire border recorded less than three cases in the same week.Meanwhile, the area referred to in government statistics as 'Hulme and University' had just 22 cases in the week ending November 24.The neighbourhood's current infection rate is also well below the national average for England, which is 167.4 per 100,000 people.Hulme and University's rate currently stands at 150.2 per 100,000 people.The rolling rate there has dropped from a peak of 1,017.3 cases

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OECD sees world economy back to pre-pandemic level in 2021

global economy may get back to pre-pandemic levels by the end of next year as vaccines help propel recovery, but growth is likely to be uneven, the OECD said Tuesday.Signs that vaccines could now be weeks away from distribution have injected cautious optimism as the year limps to a close with Covid-19 having claimed some 1.4 million lives."For the first time since the pandemic began, there is now hope for a brighter future," OECD Chief Economist Laurence Boone wrote in her introduction to the organisation's latest review of the global economic outlook."Progress with vaccines and treatment have lifted expectations and uncertainty has receded," she said, acknowledging that virus containment measures would likely be necessary for some months

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Monklands beauty salon launches with fundraiser for mental health charity

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.A STYLISH new Monklands beauty experience has strutted its stuff as it launched with a sparkling fundraising event in aid of a mental health charity.Kind-hearted owner Christine Coogan and her staff opened the bespoke Christine Coogan Beauty Bar at a special unveiling night in Maxim Park at Eurocentral and collected a fantastic sum for the Mental Health Association.Christine, 51, from Airdrie, treated 20 lucky guests to an evening of complimentary champagne, luxurious beauty treatments and prizes at the exclusive event in her stylish salon, which raised more than £400.Christine told the Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser: “The launch night itself was so

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Covid pandemic impact: Students falling behind in maths, says study

SAN FRANCISCO : A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic's effects on some of the most vulnerable students, a not-for-profit company that administers standardized testing said Tuesday.Overall, NWEA's fall assessments showed elementary and middle school students have fallen measurably behind in math, while most appear to be progressing at a normal pace in reading since schools were forced to abruptly close in March and pickup online.The analysis of data from nearly 4.4 million US students in grades 3-8 represents one of the first significant measures of the pandemic's impacts on learning.But researchers at NWEA, whose MAP Growth

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Newcastle vs Aston Villa could be postponed as Steve Bruce worries over Covid outbreak

Newcastle 's clash with Aston Villa on Friday is in jeopardy of being postponed as the Magpies deal with a Covid-19 outbreak. Steve Bruce cancelled a planned training session on Sunday before ordering a deep clean of the club's Benton training base after a significant number of players and staff tested positive from the first-team 'bubble'.

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Boris Johnson faces huge Tory rebellion as Labour to abstain on new covid rules for England

plans are approved. Dozens of Tory MPs are furious their areas are being left under tight restrictions as England emerges from a nationwide lockdown.Up to 100 MP Tory MPs could refuse to back the measures despite an assurance they will get a review in January.Johnson is expected to win the Commons vote on the new rules but only because Labour and the SNP are to abstain on the measures.

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Mum in tears as son begs for hug and she has to say 'no' due to Covid-19 rules

A mum-of-three hasn't been able to hug her special needs son for months and can only see him through a glass screen at a care home.

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Coronavirus infections found in US in 2019, weeks before China cases

Covid-19 infections in the US in December 2019, according to a study, providing further evidence indicating the coronavirus was spreading globally weeks before the first cases were reported in China.The study published Monday identified 106 infections from 7,389 blood samples collected from donors in nine US states between Dec. 13 and Jan.

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Lewis Hamilton tests positive for covid-19, to miss Sakhir GP

MANAMA : Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the upcoming Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain, the sport's governing body, the FIA, said on Tuesday.Briton Hamilton, who has already wrapped up his seventh world title and picked up his 11th win of the season at Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix, was isolating with mild symptoms but otherwise fit and well, his Mercedes team said in a statement."Lewis was tested three times last week and returned a negative result each time, the last of which was on Sunday afternoon at the Bahrain International Circuit...," the Brackley-based team said."However, he woke up on Monday morning with mild symptoms and was informed at the same time that a contact prior to arrival in

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Hamilton tests positive for COVID-19, will miss Sakhir F1 GP

SAKHIR – Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Sakhir Grand Prix this weekend.The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team issued a statement Tuesday saying Hamilton was tested three times last week and returned a negative result each time, the last on Sunday afternoon at the Bahrain International Circuit where he won the Grand Prix.“But he up woke Monday morning with mild symptoms and was informed at the same time that a contact prior to arrival in Bahrain had subsequently tested positive,” the team said. “Lewis, therefore, took a further test and returned a positive result.

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Covidiots are still partying as Renfrewshire records its highest weekly death toll in the second wave of the pandemic

PAISLEY DAILY EXPRESS: Live news as it happens They dished out 14 Fixed Penalty Notices after finding partygoers crammed in the Gallowhill home around 2.20am on Sunday.The news comes as the region recorded its highest weekly death toll during the second wave of the outbreak.A total of 13 people lost their lives to Covid-19 in the seven days to November 26.While a further 368 people tested positive in the same period.Despite a fall in new cases in neighbouring areas such as Glasgow and Lanarkshire, there has been no such decline in Renfrewshire. Read More News: It has seen covid rates fluctuating between 200 and 300 cases per 100,000 since early October.Police Scotland said it would take robust action if they find people breaching the

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9 out of 10 Canadians to change, cancel holiday plans amid coronavirus: poll

coronavirus cases.According to new polling from Ipsos, over five in 10 Canadians said they would either reduce their contacts or socially distance more during the holidays, while a whole 34 per cent said they would be cancelling their holiday plans altogether.The sentiment is similar for Canadians planning for New Year’s Eve, as well, with only one in 10 saying they would go ahead with their Dec. 31 plans as normal.

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Nicola Sturgeon coronavirus update LIVE as Scots medics begin training on delivering vaccine

Covid-19 vaccine, the Record can reveal. Training on how to administer the new arsenal of jabs is being described as “the beginning of the end of this horrific pandemic ”.

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Piers Morgan ridicules ‘selfish’ Rita Ora’s Covid merchandise after party apology

Piers Morgan has taken a swipe at Rita Ora after she apologised and reportedly offered to pay £10,000 for breaking lockdown rules and hosting a birthday party with 30 friends on Saturday.

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Michael Gove says Covid-19 vaccine 'freedom passport' isn't going to happen

Michael Gove says a Covid-19 vaccine 'freedom passport' isn't being planned, despite the vaccines minister saying yesterday that it was.

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Heartbroken nurse tells Laurence Fox she held Covid patient's hand as they died alone

Twitter account, took to the social media platform to boast about his lunch with friends where they hugged. The actor told his 255,000 followers that if the NHS couldn't cope then it was "not fit for purpose".A Cardio-Thoracic Intensive Care nurse, named on Twitter as Joanna Louise, fired back at Mr Fox's post by describing what she'd had to go through at work.Joanna replied to his tweet saying: "Just held a persons hand as they died alone, without their family or loved ones by their side."Glad you enjoyed your meal."Laurence Fox wrote on Sunday night: "Just had a large group over to lunch and we hugged and ate and talked and put the world to rights."It was lovely."You’ll never take that away from people."Stay out.

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China gave Covid-19 vaccine candidate to North Korea's Kim Jong Un: US analyst

coronavirus vaccine, a U.S. analyst said on Tuesday, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources.Harry Kazianis, a North Korea expert at the Center for the National Interest think tank in Washington, said the Kims and several senior North Korean officials had been vaccinated.It was unclear which company had supplied its drug candidate to the Kims and whether it had proven to be safe, he added."Kim Jong Un and multiple other high-ranking officials within the Kim family and leadership network have been vaccinated for coronavirus within the last two to three weeks thanks to a vaccine candidate supplied by the Chinese government," Kazianis wrote in an article for online outlet 19FortyFive.Citing U.S.

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Photo of US doctor comforting elderly Covid patient goes viral

Joseph Varon, a doctor treating coronavirus patients at a Texas hospital, was working his 252nd day in a row when he spotted a distraught elderly man in the Covid-19 intensive care unit.

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Irish Fiscal Advisory Council critical of Government non-Covid expenditure commitments

The budgetary watchdog, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC), has said the Government's commitment in the Budget to support incomes and the economy is "appropriate".

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Serum Institute says covid vaccine safe, did not cause side-effect in volunteer

Serum Institute of India on Tuesday said its Covishield vaccine is safe and immunogenic and did not cause the neurological serious adverse effect in the 40-year-old participant from Chennai.“The incident with the Chennai volunteer, though highly unfortunate, was in no way induced by the vaccine and Serum Institute of India is sympathetic with the volunteer's medical condition," the company said in a statement.The conclusion that the vaccine had not caused the “acute neuro encephalopathy" in the patient was made by the principal investigator of Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (SRMC)--Ramkrishnan, the Data and Safety Management Board (DSMB) and the Ethics Committee of the sites independently, the company said.However,

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US plans to start covid vaccination within 24 hours of approval

covid vaccine was 94.1% effective with no serious safety concerns.The FDA will decide on the emergency use authorizations (EUA)after the advisers make their recommendations.Moderna, which also plans to seek European approval, reported that its vaccine's efficacy was consistent across age, race, ethnicity and gender demographics as well as having 100% success in preventing severe cases of the disease that has killed nearly 1.5 million people worldwide."We believe that we have a vaccine that is very highly efficacious. We now have the data to prove it," Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks said.

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Moderna coronavirus vaccine 94.1% effective and to be rolled out 'within weeks'

Moderna's coronavirus vaccine could get UK approval within two weeks after a final analysis of its late-stage trial showed it was 94.1% effective with no serious safety concerns.

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Gardaí to remove Covid checkpoints from motorways, dual carriageways

Gardaí are making some changes to their policing of Covid-19 regulations as the country moves from Level 5 to Level 3.

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OK its virus shots— Fauci: US may see ‘surge upon surge’ of virus in coming weeks after Thanksgiving travel— U.K.

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Consultant didn't see his family for three months and missed out on his newborn's early days to help Covid patients

hereHaider was among those who sacrificed time with his family so he could dedicate himself to Covid patients, first living in a hotel, and later alone at the family home in Hale for months on end.He was able to spend just a few days with his youngest child after he was born in April, before his wife Rasha Al-Talib and their three children went away to stay with her parents and he went back to work.Even when he himself fell ill with Covid, he declined Rasha's offer to come home to care for him, to avoid passing the virus on. Now Rasha has nominated Haider as one of our Covid Heroes.

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Country Singer Chase Rice Faces Backlash for Making Joke About Having COVID-19 Symptoms

A country singer named Chase Rice is facing backlash this week after he wrote some tweets that seemingly make light of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Kim Jong-un 'given experimental coronavirus vaccine from China', claims US analyst

China has given North Korean leader Kim Jong-un an experimental coronavirus vaccine, a US analyst has claimed, citing two unidentified Japanese intelligence sources.

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Asian stocks gain on stronger Chinese factory data

BEIJING – Asian stocks rose Tuesday after Chinese manufacturing improved, South Korea reported stronger exports and Australia's central bank left its benchmark lending rate at a record low.Markets in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney advanced as investors looked ahead to U.S.

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Georgia runoff to decide short-term successor to John Lewis

ATLANTA – Georgia voters on Tuesday are choosing the short-term replacement for civil rights legend John Lewis.Former Atlanta City Council member Kwanza Hall and former Morehouse College President Robert Franklin are contesting a runoff election. The men finished first and second, but no one won a majority in a first round of voting in September among seven candidates.

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Coronavirus pandemic has led to 40% increase of people seeking humanitarian aid: UN

COVID-19 pandemic has fueled a 40% increase in the number of people needing humanitarian assistance around the globe, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as it appealed for roughly $35 billion to help many of those expected to be in need next year.“If everyone who will need humanitarian aid next year lived in one country, it would be the world’s fifth largest nation,” U.N. aid chief Mark Lowcock said.“The pandemic has wreaked carnage across the most fragile and vulnerable countries,” he added.

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Health worker diagnosed with Long Covid after getting infected eight months ago

Long Covid eight months after noticing symptoms. Dean Dobson, 29, caught coronavirus in February however was only diagnosed in October.

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India’s daily Covid-19 count drops to 31,118; tally reaches 94.62 lakh

COVID-19 conducted in the country reached 14,13,49,298, of these, 9,69,322 COVID-19 tests were done yesterday.On Monday, the Union Health Ministry informed that the national recovery rate stands at 93.81 per cent.Click here to read the Mint ePaperMint is now on Telegram.

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When and which covid-19 vaccines are likely to be available

IndiaThe head of the Serum Institute of India, which makes the AstraZeneca vaccine, said on Nov 23 the positive late-state trial result of the candidate will allow it to seek emergency use approval by year-end, before securing the OK for a full rollout by February or March.India also expects a government-backed vaccine to be launched as early as February, while it conducts a late-stage trial of Sputnik V.AustraliaIt has agreed to buy 135 million doses: 34 million from AstraZeneca, 40 million from Novavax Inc, 10 million from Pfizer and 51 million from CSL Ltd.It expects delivery of 3.8 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine in January and February next year.ChinaChina has not announced supply deals with Western drugmakers, which instead

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Salmon Arm RCMP issue hefty fine to anti-mask rally organizer

coronavirus pandemic. Okanagan retailers plead for shoppers to support local businesses during holidays However, police said they ended up ticketing him $2,000 under the COVID Measures Act, plus a victim surcharge levy of $300.There was another rally held outside Salmon Arm’s city hall on Saturday, but no tickets were issued at that demonstration, according to police.

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Online shopping during COVID-19 drives massive surge in holiday shipping

COVID-19: Shop early and shop now.Canada Post has said it’s preparing for one of its busiest holiday shipping seasons in years — delivering nearly two million parcels in just one day recently.So shoppers should take advantage of times like Cyber Monday and get going on their lists.“The reality is Canadians became comfortable shopping online throughout COVID-19.

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Coronavirus: 18 members of MRU men’s hockey team test positive for COVID-19

MRU Cougars website, there are 25 players, four coaches and seven support staff on the 2020-21 roster.MRU said the team stopped training after the first individual experienced symptoms and members are self-isolating.“MRU did contact tracing and notified impacted individuals.” said a university spokesperson.The university declined comment on whether Alberta Health was involved in any part of the contact tracing or what role Alberta Health played in notification. MRU also would not provide information on when the first case was identified or whether the team could have exposed players from other teams near the time these cases were considered active.

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B.C. parents urged to keep kids out of school in protest over class size, mask policy

coronavirus back-to-school plan.The BC Student SICK Out has been planned by two moms in Langley and has more than 2,500 members on Facebook.“We are asking everyone that is able to keep their children home from school to do so,” organizer Miranda Tracy said.“We are doing this to bring attention to our schools and the safety measures that are not in place but are everywhere else. We are asking for masks, smaller class sizes and online learning options for everyone who would like it across the province.”There have been growing concerns from parents and teachers over the last few weeks as exposure events continue to grow in schools.

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All-party meet on 4 December; focus likely on covid- 19 vaccine, winter session

NEW DELHI : The floor leaders of all the political parties are expected to discuss the roadmap for the distribution of covid-19 vaccine, management of the pandemic and status of the winter session of the Parliament among other issues, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 4th December at the all-party meeting.Members of different political parties believe that the Union government has a lot to answer, especially when it comes to management of the covid-19 pandemic in the country.

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United States	Cases: 46 252 513 Deaths: 750 423 Recovered: 0
India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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