20 photographs of the week
Protests in Spain and Myanmar, a swarm of locusts in Kenya, Mars seen from Nasa’s Perseverance rover and the enduring impact of Covid-19: the most striking images from around the … Read More
Category: Coronavirus
Johnson & Johnson one-shot Covid vaccine gets nod from FDA advisory panel | Coronavirus
The battle against Covid-19 took a major step forward on Friday as the US moved closer to distributing its first one-shot Covid-19 vaccine, after an independent expert advisory panel recommended … Read More
FDA Expert Panel Votes In Favor Of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
A health care worker withdrew a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from a vial at the Klerksdorp Hospital in Klerksdorp, South Africa, on Feb. 18. Phill Magakoe/AFP … Read More
Brazil tops 251,000 Covid deaths as daily fatalities also set record | Global development
Brazil has passed two grim landmarks, as deaths from Covid-19 passed 251,000 and the country saw its highest daily toll since the coronavirus was first detected there one year ago. … Read More
Martin Rowson on the Queen urging Britons to take the Covid vaccine – cartoon
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CDC Head Warns Of Recent Uptick In COVID-19 Cases : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said on Friday that the says that the 7-day average of confirmed cases in the U.S. has ticked up for the … Read More
Doorstep campaigning for local elections to resume in England | Local elections
Door-to-door political campaigning will be allowed to resume in England from 8 March in the run-up to local elections in May, the government has announced. Activists will be permitted to … Read More
Airlines Need Digital Health Passes For Passengers, British Airways Owner Says : Coronavirus Updates : NPR
A British Airways plane comes in to land behind a tail fin at Heathrow Airport in London. On Friday, the head of the group that owns BA called for instituting … Read More
Belgium slow to distribute Oxford vaccine doses as Covid cases rise | Belgium
Two-thirds of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine doses delivered to Belgium have yet to be distributed to vaccination centres, officials have admitted, as the country became the latest in Europe to report … Read More
Vaccine envy, inoculation etiquette and judging the unjustly jabbed | Coronavirus
Vaccines against Covid-19 may represent a peak of human ingenuity and achievement – but that still leaves a sticky problem of etiquette: how should you behave during a global scramble … Read More
Pride festivals in Manchester and London to go ahead | Festivals
Pride festivals in Manchester and London will go ahead this year, organisers have confirmed, with Manchester Pride being an in-person event as long as the UK government’s roadmap out of … Read More
Democrats’ $15 minimum wage rise under threat after Senate ruling – live | US news
The Georgia prosecutor investigating potential efforts by Donald Trump and others to influence last year’s general election has a message for people who are eager to see whether the former … Read More
Nvidia owes hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue to cryptocurrers in recent months
Nvidia has officially published the latest economic report of the company, which shows that the fourth quarter of 2020 as well as the business year 2021 were successful in terms … Read More
Coronavirus: adults aged 40-49 will be next in line for Covid vaccine across UK | World news
Adults over the age of 40 have been prioritised as the first group to be vaccinated once all at-risk groups in phase 1 have been offered at least one dose … Read More
UK Covid live news: justice secretary refuses to rule out prospect of prisoners and staff being vaccinated en masse | Politics
5.32am EST 05:32 A woman who was among the first people to check into a quarantine hotel has said she is looking forward to seeing her husband after months apart. … Read More
Briton sentenced to two weeks in jail for breaking Singapore Covid rules | Singapore
A British man has been sentenced to two weeks in jail and fined just over £540 for breaking a coronavirus quarantine order in Singapore to visit his fiancee. Nigel Skea, … Read More
‘Doctors are paying for supplies’: inside a stretched Burkina Faso Covid ward | Global development
When stocks of medical equipment in the general ward of Tengandogo University hospital in Ouagadougou ran low as resources flowed to the coronavirus unit, medical staff bought the essentials themselves. … Read More
Blair says collaboration on Covid could have cut three months off crisis | Tony Blair
World leaders could have cut the length of the Covid outbreak by three months if they had collaborated on vaccines, testing and drugs, Tony Blair has claimed as he launched … Read More
Australia considers approving Pfizer Covid vaccine for standard cold storage | Pfizer
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine could soon be delivered at temperatures 50 degrees warmer than currently required if Australia follows the US’s lead to ease the rollout. The US Food and Drug … Read More
Is this the worst year ever for the UK music industry? – podcast | News
The Guardian music writer Laura Snapes talks to Rachel Humphreys about why this has been such a challenging period for the music industry. Not only has Covid prevented musicians from … Read More