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UK set to approve Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Friday – Bloomberg
(Reuters) - UK health regulators may grant emergency use authorization to Moderna Inc's COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Friday, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Mr...
Jan 08, 2021
EU leaders set for video summit to discuss COVID-19 on January 21
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders are set to meet online on January 21 to discuss the bloc's efforts to counter the COVID-19 pandemic, the spokesman of the chair of EU summits said on Friday. The spokes...
Jan 08, 2021
Denmark developing digital COVID-19 ‘vaccine passport’
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark is developing a digital "vaccine passport" for people who have received a COVID-19 vaccine, a move that may enable them to travel to countries where such documentation i...
Jan 08, 2021
Germany reports record COVID-19 deaths, concerns about new variant grow
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany reported a record 1,188 daily COVID-19 deaths on Friday, only days after further tightening a national lockdown amid fears that a more transmissible variant of the coronavir...
Jan 08, 2021
Major French city of Strasbourg to have 6 pm COVID curfew: BFM TV
PARIS (Reuters) - The eastern French city of Strasbourg, home to one of the European Union parliament buildings, will have a 6 p.m. (1700 GMT) evening curfew imposed on it from Sunday onwards, as part...
Jan 08, 2021
Olympics-China simulates possible Tokyo atmosphere to train athletes
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's huge army of Olympic athletes are preparing behind closed doors for this year's Tokyo Games, simulating the kind of atmosphere they might experience in Japan, the Xinhua ne...
Jan 08, 2021
Swedish parliament grants government wider shutdown powers
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that gives the government the temporary power to shut shopping centres and public transport and to fine people who break social distanci...
Jan 08, 2021
Trump moves to loosen mining regulations, approve projects as he exits
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) - Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is moving to loosen mining regulations and green light new mineral projects before leaving office this month, with ...
Jan 08, 2021
Trump’s fans condemn violence, but they aren’t about to blame him
By Brad Brooks and Nathan Layne LAMESA, Texas/HOMER, Ga (Reuters) - Eddie Emerson worked his fly fishing pole back and forth, tossing his line into a pond in West Texas, searching for stocked trout an...
Jan 08, 2021
German vaccine purchase agreements don’t affect EU contracts – ministry
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's agreement with BioNTech to purchase additional doses of a COVID-19 vaccine does not affect contracts between the company and the European Union, a health ministry spokesma...
Jan 08, 2021
