22 December 2020
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- Colombia to launch mass Covid-19 vaccination in Feb (IANS Live)
- Coronavirus travel ban: talks with France to reopen full trade are ‘ongoing’ (The Scotsman)
- Covid-19 wrap | US Congress approves relief package, Netherlands bans all flights from South Africa (News24)
- Empty streets and squares amid Germany’s second lockdown (Deutsche Welle)
- Germany and Switzerland ban flights from South Africa over Covid variant (FT.com – Africa)
- India finds five with coronavirus on UK flight, testing for strain (NationalPost.com)
- Ireland clearly in the grip of third COVID-19 wave – health chiefs (Today Online)
- Ireland coronavirus: Pubs may stay closed until March (Mail Online UK)
- Millions of pounds worth of Scottish seafood at risk as urgent talks take place to lift France border ban (Herald Scotland)
- New strain of COVID-19 is driving South Africa’s resurgence (Mainichi JP)
- Relaxed rules will help ease Singapore’s labour crunch: Contractors (The Straits Times All News)
- Saudi Arabia halts all international travel for 1 week (The Hill)
- Ski resorts in Switzerland and Austria remain open for Christmas (Telegraph)
- South Africa says new strain driving resurgence (Pittsburgh Tribune Review)
- South Korea to shut down ski resorts (TownsvilleBulletin.com.au)
- Sweden’s Covid-19 failures have exposed the myths of the lockdown-sceptics (New Statesman)
- The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Monday, Dec. 22, 2020 (NationalPost.com)
- UK – Boris Johnson Calls Emergency Meeting Over New Covid-19 Strain As Growing Number Of Countries Ban U.K. Travel (Forbes.com)
- UK – Boris Johnson doesn’t rule out schools not reopening at start of January and says measures under ‘constant review’ (Manchester Evening News)
- UK – Boris Johnson plans mass Covid testing of lorry drivers to reopen ports – The Telegraph (NationalPost.com)
- UK – Boris Johnson under pressure amid calls for national lockdown to curb new strain of coronavirus (Manchester Evening News)
- UK – Never mind Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak is central to the UK’s Covid mess (The Guardian)
- UK and France aim to restart freight as queues grow (BBC News – Business)
- UK and France to set out plan to restart freight (BBC)
- UK coronavirus variant is in Belgium, NL, but ‘not yet’ in France (EFE)
- US – AAA projects far fewer people traveling for holidays in Connecticut, New England as pandemic weighs on plans (Hartford Courant)
- US – All Apple Stores in California Closed as Virus Surges (NewsMax.com)
- US – California governor in precautionary coronavirus quarantine (star-telegram.com)
- US – California governor says new coronavirus strain not yet detected in state (Reuters India)
- US – California hospitals discuss rationing care as virus surges (star-telegram.com)
- US – California quelled virus surge with March stay-at-home order. Why isn’t this one working? (star-telegram.com)
- US – Coronavirus behind death of Rhode Island inmate: report (FOXNews.com)
- US – Covid-19 vaccinations move to nursing homes as pandemic rages in California (The Straits Times All News)
- US – Covid-19 wrap | US Congress approves relief package, Netherlands bans all flights from South Africa (News24)
- US – House Subpoenas Health Secretary And CDC Chief As Documents Suggest Trump Appointees Interfered With Covid-19 Reports (Forbes.com)
- US – NIAIDNews – NIAID Director, Dr. Anthony Fauci will be rolling up his sleeve tomorrow to get @moderna_tx #COVID19 vaccine alongs… https://t.co/05yBC1AjEG (NIAIDNews – Twitter)
- US – NIAIDNews – RT @SecAzar: Tomorrow I’ll receive my COVID-19 vaccine @NIH alongside @NIHDirector, @NIAIDNews Dr. Fauci, & several @NIHClinicalCntr frontl… (NIAIDNews – Twitter)
- US – NIH to Study Allergic Reactions Linked to Covid-19 Shots (Bloomberg Law)
- US – Number of virus hospitalizations in Nebraska declines again (Washington Times)
- US – Therapy dogs go virtual at California hospital during pandemic (NationalPost.com)
- US – U.S. Congress reaches deal on $900B COVID-19 relief package (Global News Canada)
- US – US House of Representatives approves $900b coronavirus package (GoldCoastBulletin.com.au)
- WHO’s latest situation report (WHO)
- Amazon Shuts Down Warehouse Before Christmas: Will You Still Get Your Package In Time? (International Business Times)
- Amazon shuts US warehouse after spike in Covid-19 cases (Abu Dhabi National)
- Amazon, Target, and Walmart launch last-minute delivery efforts as holidays close in (Business Insider)
- BNY Mellon: New virus restrictions in Europe could impact markets into the end of the year (CNBC)
- BioNTech chief executive ‘confident’ Pfizer Covid vaccine works against new coronavirus strain (London Evening Standard)
- Coal India’s fuel allocation under spot e-auction rises 59% during Apr-Nov (Business Standard India)
- DocuSign, Check Point lead work from home gainers on new COVID-19 strain, SolarWinds breach tailwinds (Seeking Alpha)
- EasyJet defers aircraft deliveries in response to pandemic (Yorkshire Evening Post)
- Egypt among least affected markets by coronavirus: Lenovo (Daily News Egypt)
- Emirates NBD recognised for Robotic Process Automation powered by Automation Anywhere (WAM.ae Business)
- European Medicines Agency recommends conditional OK to coronavirus vaccine made by BioNTech and Pfizer (San Antonio Express-News.com)
- First batch of Pfizer vaccine to arrive in February, says PM (thestar.com.my)
- Global markets slip, UK coronavirus strain, SoftBank Spac (FT.com – Companies)
- Google launches new tool to help travel industry recover after suffering loss due to Covid-19 (Indian Express)
- IKEA unpacks fourth year of losses despite sales boom (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Investec spin-out launches recovery fund to save South African economy “in… (AltAssets.net)
- Kia Motors and its union tentatively agree on wage freeze (Korea Joongang Daily)
- LATAM Airlines shareholder to exit Chile investment vehicle (CH-Aviation)
- Malaysia buys 6.4 million doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine (South China Morning Post – News)
- NAACP and Experian Pilot Program Helps 21 Homeo… (ADVFN Deutschland)
- Ooredoo’s ICT solutions ready to take on changing world (Qatar Tribune)
- Philippines may sign deal with AstraZeneca for 30M doses of COVID vaccine next week (Philippine Star)
- Royal Mail halts mail to Europe as DHL suspends road deliveries into UK (itv.com)
- Russia, AstraZeneca sign pact to test combination of Covid-19 shots (Business Standard India)
- SK Telecom to develop pandemic-fighting AI with Samsung and Kakao (Korea Herald)
- Singapore gets Asia’s first batch of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine (News5 – InterAksyon)
- Sinovac secures annual output of 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses by end of year (Globaltimes.cn)
- Sinovac’s COVID-19 shot effective in Brazil trials – WSJ (Seeking Alpha)
- Takashimaya, Anchorpoint Shopping Centre among places visited by Covid-19 cases while infectious (Today Online)
- Tata Motors to hike prices of commercial vehicles from January 2021 (Livemint.com)
- Telia says Swedes watched 5% more TV in first 11 months, 11% more streaming (Telecompaper)
- Trump Covid vaccine czar says ‘extremely low’ chance Pfizer and Moderna shots won’t work against new strain (CNBC)
- Vodafone terminates talks to sell Egyptian business to Saudi Telecom Company (Abu Dhabi National)
- Volkswagen India Inaugurates Das WeltAuto Excellence Centre in Ahmedabad and Bengaluru (Yahoo! India)
- Wipro extends work from home till April 2021 (Business Today India)
- ‘Pre-COVID life won’t be back in 2021’, says Deutsche Bank’s CIO — he also says Asia will continue to rise (Business Insider India)
- A Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibody for Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 (New England Journal of Medicine)
- Anger as Republican lawmakers who played down pandemic jump vaccine queue (The Independent)
- Biden receives first dose of coronavirus vaccine publicly (TheHill – The Hill News)
- Biden receives the coronavirus vaccine. (NYT.com U.S.)
- Doctor who received COVID-19 vaccine wants to be ‘role model for the community’ in getting the jab (FOXNews.com)
- EU backs first COVID-19 vaccine with Pfizer, BioNTech’s Comirnaty (FirstWord Pharma)
- Ethical issues in using ambient intelligence in health-care settings (Lancet)
- Feds Deploying More Than 400,000 Coronavirus Antibody Treatment Courses To States (Forbes.com)
- France expects national COVID-19 vaccine approval by… (Mail Online UK)
- In a community devastated by covid-19, vaccine brings hope but not healing (Washington Post)
- Multiplex assays for the identification of serological signatures of SARS-CoV-2 infection: an antibody-based diagnostic and machine learning study (Lancet)
- NMDAR antibodies in patients with psychosis (Lancet)
- Surgeon general calls on coronavirus survivors to donate convalescent plasma (FOXNews.com)
- Vaccine ‘should stop new variant coronavirus’ (BBC)
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