A refrigerated truck leaves the Pfizer Manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium/AP By Joe Murphy-Nicholas Cecil The world’s first supplies of approved Covid-19 vaccine arrive in Britain today, it can be revealed. A refrigerated truck was seen leaving the Pfizer manufacturing plant in Puurs, Belgium, on Thursday morning, thought to be en route to the UK.

This May 4, 2020, file photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, shows the first patient enrolled in Pfizer’s COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Pfizer and BioNTech say they’ve won permission Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine

55-day-old baby said to be in stable condition A Somali conjoined twin who was born with four legs underwent an eight-hour operation in Istanbul, Turkey on Sunday. ”The infant was born 55 days ago with severe anomalies at the Recep Tayyip Erdogan Training and Research Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a hospital supported by

The head of NHS Providers said precautions were needed now to avoid chaos in January, the busiest time of year for hospitals. Photograph: Steve Parsons/AP By Clea Skopeliti Senior minister urges MPs to take responsibility for hard decisions amid Tory rebellion Every hospital in England risks being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases if the new, tougher

Photo: Credit Evening Standard By Harriet Brewis More than 65,200 deaths involving Covid-19 have now occurred in the UK, with the number of weekly coronavirus-related deaths exceeding 1,000 for the first time since June. The country has recorded a total of 65,231 deaths involving the virus since the start of the pandemic, according to the

After staggering high on Saturday, numbers fall by nearly half at end of weekend France saw a sharp drop in coronavirus infections Sunday, a welcome respite after three days of watching numbers careen out of control. A staggering 86,852 cases were recorded Saturday — an all-time high for the country — but they fell by

VCG Image The European Union has approved an additional €17.2 million through the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF) to support COVID-19 preparedness in Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan. Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen said the additional funds will be directed towards supporting vulnerable people and strengthening health systems in the three countries.

The US broke a new record in daily COVID-19 cases with more than 120,000 new infections, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The country saw 121,054 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, marking the second consecutive day of over 100,000 new infections nationwide. The US still leads the world with over 9.6 million cases and nearly

Photo: Credit Evening Standard Londoners returning to work today at London Bridge Londoners jog, walk and cycle to work to ease Tube pressure on big return. (Evening Standard / eyevine) By Luke O’Reilly The UK recorded 397 deaths from coronavirus on Monday – the biggest daily toll since May. New cases of the virus also

Over 70 new COVID-19 cases have taken Nigeria’s tally past 63,000, authorities said on Tuesday. A total of 72 more infections were registered across the country over the past 24 hours, raising the overall count to 63,036, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control’s (NCDC) daily update. One more COVID-19 fatality moved the death