Pfizer study suggests vaccine works against virus variant— US registering highest deaths yet from the coronavirus— Brazil’s pandemic deaths top 200,000 amid a return to fun— Britain’s National Health Service will from next week employ a little-used field hospital specially built at a huge exhibition center in east London in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic last spring. — Facing criticism over a slow roll out of virus vaccines -- with barely 500 people vaccinated in the first week — France’s government has pledged to speed up jabs for the elderly. — South Africa says it will import 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to inoculate the country’s health workers. ——Follow AP’s coverage at.