But the WHO has stopped short of saying it is more transmissible, more deadly or able to dodge vaccine protections.As part of the global effort, Singapore said on Wednesday it had sent two, and Germany will deliver 120 ventilators and plans to set up oxygen production.
India also looks set to receive some of the millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses the United States has said it will export. "It's great to be here with my girlfriend and my friends. I think it feels great after six months being inside," Marvin Erhart told AFP from a cafe in the Hague.The lifting of measures follow similar moves in Italy, Portugal and Switzerland that have recently peeled back restrictions - even as governments scramble to roll out much-needed vaccines.
The EU is eager to speed up its sluggish immunisation drive after it sued the British-Swedish firm AstraZeneca for allegedly breaking their purchase agreement.Britain meanwhile announced it had ordered 60 million more doses of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine for a booster programme to protect the most vulnerable during winter.
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