India will move quickly to use vaccines already approved elsewhere; Fauci says US may not ‘need’ AstraZeneca jabs
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12.07pm BST
German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday her decision to ask parliament for temporary powers that enables her government to enforce nationwide coronavirus lockdowns was necessary to curb a third wave of the pandemic.
Reuters reports:
“For the situation to improve we need to stop the third wave, break it, and reverse it, and the measures to fight the pandemic need to be stricter,” Merkel said during a news conference after the cabinet approved a draft law enabling a mandatory nationwide “emergency brake” if the number of new infections per 100,000 residents in a district or city exceeds 100 for three consecutive days within a week.
“One thing is helping us enormously: as we prepare for those restrictions, the vaccination campaign is in progress and building momentum every day.”
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Concern is growing in Brazil about the rising number of young people who are critically ill in hospital with Covid-19, the BBC reports.
Research suggests more than half of patients being treated in intensive care last month were under 40.
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