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Spain increases COVID-19 vaccination pace but regional disparities remain
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain on Tuesday increased the pace of its campaign to inoculate people against COVID-19, with close to 140,000 people vaccinated, but only 18.7% of the doses received had been admi...
Jan 05, 2021
Iran vows “decisive response” to any Israeli move against it
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it would deliver a "decisive response" to any Israeli move against it, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would not allow Tehran to develop nucl...
Jan 05, 2021
France to cull 600,000 poultry to stem bird flu
PARIS (Reuters) - France is to cull around 600,000 poultry birds as it tries to contain an avian influenza virus that is spreading among duck flocks in the southwest of the country, the farm ministry ...
Jan 05, 2021
Mexico’s president sets out vaccination plan, targets rural areas
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday set out plans to vaccinate the country's population and said the government hoped to inoculate the country's elderly by...
Jan 05, 2021
No work without COVID test in central Slovakia as hospitals overflow worst-hit region
PRAGUE (Reuters) - Slovaks in the country's central Nitra region would not be allowed to work unless they have tested negative for the coronavirus as the area's main hospital was inundated with COVID ...
Jan 05, 2021
UK scientists question COVID-19 vaccine dosing delay
By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) - Five UK medical scientists have criticised a British government plan to delay giving second doses of COVID-19 vaccines by up to 12 weeks, saying proven dosing schedu...
Jan 05, 2021
Germany extends lockdown to end-January, adds stricter measures – Merkel
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is extending its nationwide lockdown until the end of the month and is introducing new tougher restrictions in a bid to get control of surging coronavirus infections, Chance...
Jan 05, 2021
WHO’s Tedros “very disappointed” China has not authorised entry of coronavirus experts
ZURICH (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization is "very disappointed" that China has still not authorised the entry of a team of international experts to examine the origins of the coron...
Jan 05, 2021
South African variant unlikely to fully negate COVID vaccines, scientist says
By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A variant of the coronavirus first detected in South Africa is unlikely to completely negate the immunising effects of vaccines, a researcher studying it ...
Jan 05, 2021
Hundreds of migrants without shelter in Bosnia as winter bites
By Dado Ruvic BIHAC, Bosnia (Reuters) - Nearly 3,000 migrants are stranded in northern Bosnia without shelter, the International Organization for Migration said, and some are suffering from respirator...
Jan 05, 2021
