A second experimental coronavirus vaccine is showing promising results with late-stage clinical trials of Moderna’s main candidate appearing to be almost 95 per cent effective. But the World Health Organisation warns as cases surge around the globe, it will take more than a vaccine to end the pandemic.
W-H-O Director-General, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus says his immediate worry is people becoming complacent.
The latest weekly average shows more than 148,000 new infections and 1100 deaths are being reported across the US each day with forty states experiencing record increases in COVID-19 cases in November, leading to some imposing further restrictions on the movements of their residents.
Meanwhile in Britain, the average number of new infections is now more than 25,000 per day, up from around 22,000 last week.
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