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[ad_1] The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has now been shown to be 95% effective in preventing coronavirus and has met the necessary safety criteria for emergency clearance, the companies said. Pfizer and BioNTech say they plan to ship the COVID-19 vaccine to the US regulator for emergency use approval “within days” after …

[ad_1] The writer is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Slowly but surely, humanity is taking the lead in the fight against the virus. We haven’t won yet. Difficult weeks and months remain. But with better drugs, tests, and a variety of vaccines, we know in our hearts that …

[ad_1] Good Morning. Georgia’s secretary of state has said he was asked by Republican Senator Lindsey Graham if legal ballots could be discarded, following Donald Trump’s narrow defeat in the state. In an explosive interview with the Washington Post, Brad Raffensperger said he was “stunned” by the question, in which …

[ad_1] Here are the coronavirus morning headlines for Tuesday, November 17, as thousands of volunteers with no medical history could be trained to administer the coronavirus vaccine in a bid to comply with the Government’s mass immunization plans. St John Ambulance will be one of the organizations providing training to …

[ad_1] Five million doses of the Moderna vaccine were ordered to combat the coronavirus, the Health Secretary announced. Matt Hancock said the preliminary rehearsals showing that it is 94.5% effective it was ‘great news’ and that, if it’s safe, the hits can start rolling out across the UK in spring …

[ad_1] The team behind the Eden Project in Cornwall have presented a business case for £ 70 million of government funding to create an outpost in the north on the Lancashire coast. The team behind Eden Project North hope it can be a major new attraction in Morecambe that will …

[ad_1] Global pharmaceutical company Janssen is starting clinical trials of a possible COVID-19 vaccine in the UK. Across the country, 6,000 volunteers are participating in phase three trials of the COVID-19 vaccine at 17 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) sites, including Southampton, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Leicester, Sheffield, Manchester, Dundee, …

[ad_1] SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station in the first full taxi flight for NASA conducted by a private company. The Falcon rocket thundered into the night from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with three Americans and a Japanese on board, the second crew launched …

[ad_1] Four astronauts have begun their journey to the International Space Station (ISS) after a historic SpaceX launch. It is the first full NASA mission to send a crew into orbit aboard a privately owned spacecraft and the second time that SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has brought astronauts to the space …

[ad_1] Young, previously healthy people with ongoing Covid-19 symptoms show signs of multiple organ damage four months after initial infection, a study suggests. The findings are a step towards removing the physical underpinnings and developing treatments for some of the bizarre and extensive symptoms experienced by people with “prolonged Covid”, …