Latest updates: new vaccine can be easily transported so rollout could be swift; person who returned to Taiwan tests positive for new variant; Norway extends UK flight ban
Lockdown measures in England will be extended to counter the rapidly growing number of cases of a new variant of Covid-19, the UK health secretary Matt Hancock told BBC television on Wednesday.
Asked if the current tiered measures would be broadened, Hancock said: “Yes, I’m going to set out the details of that to the House of Commons this afternoon.”
A 45-year-old nurse in California has tested positive for Covid-19 more than a week after receiving Pfizer Inc’s coronavirus vaccine, an ABC News affiliate reported on Tuesday.
Matthew W., a nurse at two different local hospitals, said in a Facebook post on 18 December that he had received the Pfizer vaccine, telling the ABC News affiliate that his arm was sore for a day but that he had suffered no other side-effects.
from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3mYUpbN
