Australian city enters lockdown after UK strain detected; France closes UK border for ‘forseeable future’; UK extends ban on southern African travellers
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The world’s poorest countries can expect to start receiving their first Covid-19 vaccine doses between the end of January and mid-February, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
AFP: Vaccination is already under way in some of the world’s wealthiest nations, including the United States, Britain, European Union countries and Canada.
Australia’s Queensland state enforced a three-day lockdown in the city of Brisbane from Friday evening, after a hotel quarantine worker tested positive for the more contagious variant of Covid-19 that emerged in Britain last month.
State premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters:
We know that this UK strain is highly infectious. It is 70% more infectious, and we are going to go hard and we are going to go early to do everything we can to stop the spread of this virus.”
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