 | | | | Coronavirus infections rose by 4,382 in a day, data https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/overview from Swiss health authorities showed on Friday, as the cabinet met to discuss its response to the pandemic amid pressure from neighbouring countries to close ski resorts over the holidays. | | |
| | | COVID-19 case numbers dropped in England during its second national lockdown, Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Friday. | | |
| | | Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga defended on Friday a travel subsidy campaign that some medical groups and experts say has fuelled a third wave of coronavirus cases, and said he would finalise the size of an economic stimulus package next week. | | |
| | | Norway plans to use the three vaccines developed by Moderna, AstraZeneca, Pfizer and BioNTech in its first push to inoculate its population against COVID-19, Norway's health minister said on Friday. | | |
| | | The U.S. government's first shipment of millions of coronavirus vaccine doses to be divided among states and federal agencies, including the Department of Defense, will fall far short of protecting high priority groups such as healthcare workers, a Reuters analysis has found. | | |
| | | The Spanish government intends to vaccinate between 15 and 20 million people against the coronavarius by May or June next year, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday. | | |
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| | | Around 600,000 residents of nursing homes for the elderly as well as staff and residents' relatives will be the first in Sweden to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus, the government said on Friday. | | |
| | | About a third of the Spanish population is ready to take the COVID-19 vaccine immediately, while 55.2% of them would rather wait for the effects to be known, a survey carried out by CIS pollster showed on Friday. | | |
| | | Moscow launched an online service on Friday for people to book appointments to be vaccinated against COVID-19, two days after President Vladimir Putin called for large-scale vaccinations. | | |
| | | Bulgaria on Friday announced plans to vaccinate people against the coronavirus free of charge once it has procured vaccine doses, and said it would start with doctors, nurses, dentists and pharmacists. | | |
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