• The UK formally refers AstraZeneca’s experimental coronavirus vaccine to its Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency for assessment. Source
• In New York – an early epicenter of coronavirus infections brought under control by lockdowns, masking and other public health measures – daily cases reach 8,000, the highest since their peak in April. Source
• Spain announces a three-phase plan for rolling out coronavirus vaccines beginning with the first of 18 groups: nursing home staff and residents, followed by healthcare workers and disabled people – all of whom could be vaccinated before June 2020. The country has made deals with AstraZeneca, CureVac. Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer/ BioNTech, Sanofi/ GSK and is closing an order with NovaVax. for a total of 140 million doses, although the country’s population is 47 million. Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa says if all goes as planned, extra vaccine doses will be given to countries outside of the EU, in solidarity. Sources 1,2