London on Monday announced it had cancelled a New Year's Eve event in the central Trafalgar Square for 6,500 people. I am particularly pleased with today's authorisation of the Novavax vaccine," European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement. "At a time where the Omicron variant is rapidly spreading. The other vaccines approved in the bloc are from Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson, and the EU has already signed a deal to buy up to 200 million doses of the two-shot Novavax vaccine. The European Union approved its fifth Covid-19 jab Monday – from US firm Novavax – with Europe already far ahead of other parts of the world with its rollout of vaccines and booster shots.Īuthorisation of the jab, which uses a more conventional technology than other Covid vaccines, has raised hopes that people worried about getting vaccinated might now come forward. "We have to focus now on ending this pandemic," he said. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for nations to redouble efforts to help end the pandemic, calling for New Year events to be cancelled because it was better to "celebrate later than to celebrate now and grieve later. Since it was first reported in South Africa in November, Omicron has been identified in dozens of countries, dashing hopes that the worst of the pandemic is over. The White House reported on Saturday that a mid-level, fully vaccinated and boosted staff member had tested positive for Covid-19 after spending 30 minutes in proximity to the president. Biden has so far tested negative.Įarly data suggests Omicron could be more infectious and possibly have higher resistance to vaccines, despite indications that it is not more severe than the Delta variant. In some regions of the country – the Pacific Northwest, South and parts of the Midwest – it already comprises more than 90 percent of new infections. Omicron now accounts for 73.2 percent of new US cases over the past week ending Saturday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. More federal sites will be opened across the country in areas of high need and when requested by local and state officials, and some 1,000 military medical personnel will be deployed to support hospitals that are already being overwhelmed in some areas. The administration will also open multiple federal testing centres starting in New York City ahead of Christmas, a senior administration official said. But in the United States, President Joe Biden does not plan on "locking the country down", White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said earlier in the day.īiden will announce during an address Tuesday that the federal government will buy 500 million at-home rapid Covid-19 tests and make them available to all Americans in January. The new variant has helped fuel record case surges, forcing a return to harsh restrictions in some countries.
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