Coronavirus Live News: Netherlands Announces Five-Week Lockdown As UK Detects New Covid Strain | World News

Moderna Inc said on Monday it was informed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) that certain documents related to conversations prior to the presentation of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate were illegally accessed in a cyber attack on the drug regulator, it reports. Reuters.

The EMA, which evaluates drugs and vaccines for the European Union, said earlier this month that it had been the target of a cyberattack, which also gave hackers access to documents related to the development of the vaccine Pfizer Inc and BioNTech Covid- 19.

Moderna said her submission to the EMA did not include any information identifying the individual study participants and that, at the moment, there is no information that the participants have been identified in any way.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough new five-week national lockdown on Monday, saying schools, non-essential shops, museums and gyms will close at midnight until January 19.

“We have to bite into this very bitter apple before things get any better,” said a grim Rutte in a televised address to the nation.

As Rutte spoke from his office in The Hague, protesters could be heard whistling outside.

“The reality is that this is not an innocent flu as some people, like the protesters outside, think,” Rutte said. “But a virus that can affect everyone.”

Starting Tuesday, all non-essential stores will close until January 19 along with businesses like hair salons, museums and theaters. All schools and colleges will need to switch to remote learning starting Wednesday. Daycare centers will be closed to everyone except the children of key workers.

The government also urged people to receive a maximum of two guests over the age of 13 per day, but relaxed the rule slightly from December 24-26, saying that three people can visit on those days normally holidays.

Here’s our full story on the new strain of coronavirus that has been detected in the UK:

Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

My name is Helen sullivan and I’ll bring you the latest global developments for the next few hours.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte imposed a tough new five-week national lockdown on Monday, saying schools, non-essential shops, museums and gyms will close at midnight until January 19.

“We have to bite into this very bitter apple before things get any better,” said a grim Rutte in a televised address to the nation.

Meanwhile, in the UK, a new strain of coronavirus that has appeared in genomic surveillance in England in the last two months may have spread the virus in southern England. The strain contains a number of different mutations and has been detected in parts of the South where cases of the virus are increasing the fastest, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock.

Here are the other key developments of the last few hours:

• Thatnothing began to vaccinate its citizens against Covid-19 today, following the UK and New York State. Five frontline workers in Ontario were among the first Canadians to receive the vaccine at one of Toronto’s hospitals.
• It would take almost a year to vaccinate the entire UK population against Covid-19, even without interruptions in vaccine supply, leading scientists have said.
• Intensive care units filled to capacity throughout California this weekend, As Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continued to rise at an alarming rate, hospitals in the San Joaquin Valley, the state’s agricultural hub, reported Saturday that ICU bed capacity had dropped to zero by first time. The region’s capacity fell to 1.5% on Monday, but the situation remained precarious.
• Turkish President Recep Tayip Erdogan has said that Turkey will impose a full five-day lockdown starting on December 31. as official data showed that daily new deaths from coronavirus reached a record 229. Erdoğan, speaking after a cabinet meeting, said the stay-at-home order would begin at 9 pm on New Years Eve and will be It will run until January 4.
• P.ance has reported 3,063 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours, Drastically down from 11,533 on Sunday, but the number of people admitted to the hospital with the disease rose for the third day in a row.
• An intensive care unit nurse who became the first person in the US to receive the Pfizer / BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine on Monday called it a sign that “cure is coming.” Sandra Lindsay, who has treated some of the sickest patients for Covid-19 for months, received the vaccine at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in the Queens borough of New York City, an early hub of the Covid outbreak. -19 in the country.
• PostEarth faces a real threat from a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said Monday, adding that he would recommend that the current restrictions continue until at least January 17.
• The UK reported 20,263 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, bringing the total figure for the last seven days to 131,708, 21.6% more compared to the figure for the previous seven days, official data showed.