Saturday, January 30, 2021
20 things that happened this week #coronavirus
• 500 cases at the DVLA in Swansea
• 75% of over-80s have had first jab
• NZ reports first case for months
• calls for clarity on schools reopening
• riots in Netherlands over introduction of curfew
• Moderna vaccine effective against new variants
• EU concerned by reduced supply of Pfizer vaccine
• UK death toll reaches six figures
• "We truly did everything we could" (PM)
• hotel quarantine for some incoming travellers
• schools won't reopen before 8th March
• only 'essential' foreign travel permitted
• PM visits Scottish vaccine centres
• Germany limits Oxford vaccine to under-65s
• Novavax 89% effective against UK variant
• Johnson & Johnson vaccine is 66% effective
• EU approves Oxford vaccine
• Western Isles (finally) go into lockdown
• EU backtracks on export controls for vaccines
• Wales extends shielding until the end of March
Worldwide deaths: 2,110,000 → 2,210,000
Worldwide cases: 98,000,000 → 102,000,000
UK deaths: 97,329 → 105,571
UK cases: 3,617,459 → 3,796,088
Vaccinations: 5,861,351 → 8,378,940
FTSE: down 4% (6695 → 6407) |
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