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Reuters Health Report: Portugal says will have enough COVID-19 jabs for the whole population

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Portugal says will have enough COVID-19 jabs for the whole population

LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal will have enough coronavirus jabs to inoculate the whole population, with the distribution of the vaccines kicking off as soon as they arrive in the country, hopefully before the end of the year, the head of the vaccination task-force said.

Exclusive-WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024

The global scheme to deliver COVID-19 vaccines to poorer countries faces a "very high" risk of failure, potentially leaving nations home to billions of people with no access to vaccines until as late as 2024, internal documents say.

British government reluctant to cancel Christmas amid pandemic, says people can decide for themselves

The British government resisted pressure to impose even tighter restrictions on Christmas family get-togethers on Wednesday as pubs and restaurants in London and elsewhere shut their doors amid worsening coronavirus figures.

Britain should exercise extreme caution at Christmas, says PM Johnson

Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britons on Wednesday to celebrate Christmas with "extreme caution", saying that although the vaccination programme had got off to a very good start, asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 still posed a threat.

UK has given nearly 140,000 people COVID shots, minister says

LONDON (Reuters) -Nearly 140,000 people in the United Kingdom have received their first COVID-19 shots in the first week of roll-out of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the minister in charge of the programme said on Wednesday.

Vaccine and marketing groups take up challenge of promoting shots to pandemic's hardest-hit

In November, the National Black Church Initiative organized a 15-church community campaign in Baltimore to encourage Black Americans to get their flu shots. Eleven people in a city of 600,000 showed up.

Londoners party on eve of tougher COVID restrictions

One woman waved purple burlesque feather fans while dozens cheered with beers and some sang Karaoke in the streets for one last gasp of revelry in London's partyland before the capital went into the strictest level of COVID restrictions.

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In Chicago, a community mourns a grandmother lost to COVID-19

CHICAGO (Reuters) -On Dec. 1, 2020, at 4:40 pm, Roseland Community Hospital nurse Alma Abad entered the isolation room of COVID-19 patient Florence Bolton with an iPad donated to the hospital to allow the sick to communicate with their families.

COVID beds run short in St Petersburg as Russian vaccine rollout gathers pace

St Petersburg is running out of hospital beds for COVID-19 patients, city authorities said, as one of around half a dozen firms licenced to produce Russia's Sputnik V vaccine began deliveries across the country.

Swiss report more than 5,600 new coronavirus cases in a day

Coronavirus infections rose by 5,625 in a day, data https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/overview from Swiss health authorities showed on Wednesday, amid calls from a senior government adviser this week to impose an immediate lockdown.

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