EU's decision came against a backdrop of high infection rates in many EU countries and strong criticism of the slow pace of vaccinations across the region. The European Union's executive commission gave the green light Wednesday to Moderna Inc.'s Covid-19 vaccine, providing the 27-nation bloc with a second vaccine to use in the desperate battle to tame the virus rampaging across the continent.
Italy has registered 76,877 Covid-19 deaths since its outbreak came to light on Feb. 21, the highest toll in Europe and the fifth-highest in the world. The country has also reported 2.201 million cases to date, the health ministry said.Turkey has reported over 13,800 daily infections from the novel coronavirus.
The Dutch government has come under fierce criticism for its late start to vaccinations. Prime Minister Mark Rutte told lawmakers in a debate Tuesday that authorities had focused preparations on the easy-to-handle vaccine made by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, which hasn't yet been cleared for use in the EU, and not the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Wealthier nations had already snapped up 80 percent of available doses, Galvez said, without providing a source for the data. "The MCG is being investigated as a potential source for the infection," Victoria's Department of Health said. The country of 10.7 million also had a record number of active cases – 126,348 as of Wednesday morning, the figures showed. Authorities in Thailand say they plan to expand coronavirus testing to thousands of factories in a province near Bangkok as they reported 365 new cases around the country and one new death.
That brings the US to more than 21 million cases and 357,067 deaths in total since the start of the pandemic. Ref 814 refers to the county’s policy on determining and pronouncing death in a patient who has not been transported to a hospital.Chinese authorities have shut sections of highways running through Hebei province that surrounds Beijing and banned gatherings in the province’s capital in the latest efforts to stave off another coronavirus wave.
United States international and twice World Cup winner Alex Morgan said she and her family tested positive for Covid-19 over the Christmas holiday and are all recovering well. Rising infections have driven Tokyo and surrounding areas to the highest level of a four-stage alert, prompting regional governors to urge a declaration of emergency that Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is expected to announce on Thursday.
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