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23 December 2020
• Moderna announces that it expects its coronavirus vaccine to be active against the UK variant; the company will perform...
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22 December 2020
• Antarctica, the world’s only coronavirus-free continent, reports 36 cases at a Chilean research base and three cases among the...
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21 December 2020
• The EMA approves the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine – and is paying less for it than the US ($14.70 per...
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20 December 2020
• Israel begins vaccinating its residents. Source • Thailand locks down Samut Sakhorn, a seaside province near Bangkok, after finding...
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19 December 2020
• COVAX announces that it has gained access to nearly two billion doses of promising coronavirus vaccine candidates, including those...
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18 December 2020
• Global coronavirus cases exceed 75 million. Source • The US reports a record-breaking daily total of over 251,000 new...
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17 December 2020
• The US exceeds 17 million coronavirus cases, as cases increase by more than one million in five days. Sources...
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16 December 2020
• Peru’s Minister of Health, Pilar Mazzetti, announces that Sinopharm can resume coronavirus vaccine trials. Source • Brazil’s President Bolsonaro...
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15 December 2020
• BMJ publishes an analysis of global purchase commitments for potential and approved coronavirus vaccines, reporting that 7.48 billion doses...
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14 December 2020
• The US surpasses 300,000 coronavirus deaths. Source • Africa’s CDC reports that two million people across the continent have...
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13 December 2020
• Bahrain approves one of Sinopharm’s coronavirus vaccine candidates, based on an 86% efficacy result from a trial in the...
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12 December 2020
• Global coronavirus cases surpass 70 million. Source • Peru suspends trials of a Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine in 12,000 people...