Coronavirus live news: German cases 'stabilising but not declining'; Madrid to seal itself from other regions for 10 days

Madrid to closeborders with other regions; Germanysays cases stabilising but not decliningSouth Australia premier fuming over pizza lie that put state in lockdownCalifornia enacts curfew for majority of state ’s 40m residentsScientists race to find ‘warm’ Covid vaccine to solve issue of cold storageArthritis drug appears to help Covid patients in ICU‘Massive headache’: European leaders put off Christmas decisions4.02pmGMTFar-right militants in Europe and the US are increasingly forming global links and using the coronavirus pandemic to attract anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists to their cause, a study commissioned by the German foreign ministry has found.The study carried out in Germany, France, Britain, the US, Sweden and Finland by the Counter Extremism Project documents the emergence of a new far-right movement since 2014 that is “leaderless, transnational, apocalyptic and oriented towards violence”.3.51pmGMTWealthy nations reiterated their opposition to a proposal to waive intellectual property rules for Covid-19 drugs, three trade sources said, despite pressure to make an exception to improve access to drugs for poorer countries.Supporters of the waiver say existing intellectual property (IP) rules create barriers on access to affordable medicines and vaccines and they want restrictions to be eased, as they were during the AIDS epidemic.“If rich countries prefer profits to life, they will kill it by tying it down in technicalities.” said a ...
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