Coronavirus live news: WHO warns Covid 'not tired of us' as top UK scientist says vaccine 'feels like watershed moment' https://ift.tt/2IkGuhX Helen Sullivan US passes 10m cases; Italy extends restrictions in five regions; Biden announces Covid-19 advisory board Scientists react to vaccine news Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says manufacturer What has Pfizer’s vaccine trial found and is this a breakthrough? New Covid lockdown in Hungary as Belgium passes second peak Italy ‘faces 10,000 Covid deaths in a month’ with no lockdown Follow all our coronavirus coverage 12.40am GMT It was supposed to be a scene of celebration. Instead, the Trump campaign’s election night watch party held in the White House East Room – with few masks and no social distancing – is being eyed as a potential coronavirus super-spreading event and yet another symbol of Donald Trump’s cavalier attitude toward a virus that is infecting more than 100,000 Americans a day. Related: Was Donald Trump's White House watch party a super-spreader event? 12.16am GMT Noticeably absent from this week’s resumed World Health Assembly (WHA) was Taiwan, which said Chinese “obstruction” had prevented it from attending and accused the WHO of prioritising politics over health, AFP reports. The self-ruled island of 23 million has seen remarkable success in combating the pandemic - with only seven deaths and fewer than 600 confirmed cases. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J November 10, 2020 at 02:40AM

US passes 10m cases; Italy extends restrictions in five regions; Biden announces Covid-19 advisory board

• Scientists react to vaccine news
• Covid-19 vaccine candidate is 90% effective, says manufacturer
• What has Pfizer’s vaccine trial found and is this a breakthrough?
• New Covid lockdown in Hungary as Belgium passes second peak
• Italy ‘faces 10,000 Covid deaths in a month’ with no lockdown
• Follow all our coronavirus coverage

12.40am GMT

It was supposed to be a scene of celebration.

Instead, the Trump campaign’s election night watch party held in the White House East Room – with few masks and no social distancing – is being eyed as a potential coronavirus super-spreading event and yet another symbol of Donald Trump’s cavalier attitude toward a virus that is infecting more than 100,000 Americans a day.

Related: Was Donald Trump's White House watch party a super-spreader event?

12.16am GMT

Noticeably absent from this week’s resumed World Health Assembly (WHA) was Taiwan, which said Chinese “obstruction” had prevented it from attending and accused the WHO of prioritising politics over health, AFP reports.

The self-ruled island of 23 million has seen remarkable success in combating the pandemic - with only seven deaths and fewer than 600 confirmed cases.

Continue reading...

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