Coronavirus live news: UK variant fears while Western Australia to relax border rules

New UK Covid variant may be 30% more deadly, says Johnson; World ’s poor need action, not Covid ‘vaccine nationalism’, say experts;Germany ’s Covid death toll exceeds 50,000Home Affairs visa letter forces Australian couple on ‘nightmare’ trip to Covid-hit BritainIsraeli Covid chief ’s claim single vaccine dose less effective ‘inaccurate’Covid vaccines: what are the implications of new variants of virus?12.47amGMTvia AFPPfizer announced Friday that it will provide up to 40 million of its Covid-19 vaccine doses to poorer countries on a non-profit basis, through the globally-pooled Covax facility.12.20amGMTA bit more on the New South Wales Covid situation.NSW Health ’s sewage surveillance program has recently detected fragments of the virus that causes Covid-19 at two more sewage treatment plants – Liverpool and Glenfield.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Lisa Cox (now) and Josh Taylor (earlier) Tags: Coronavirus Infectious diseases Science World news Source Type: news