04:15
03:51
With the overall costs of vaccinating the Population of the United Kingdom at £ 12bn, the public accounts committee has marked “highly unusual” deals.
Vaccinating the population against Covid-19 will cost up to £ 12 billion, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has revealed, amid details about tensions between health workers during deployment.
He National Audit Office he said the government would spend up to £ 11.7 billion on buying and manufacturing Covid-19 funnels for the UK before deploying them to England.
03:44
03:26
It has been described as “very not Australian”- one of the fiercest but most flexible criticisms you can make in this part of the world.
Officials from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade they are allowed to skip the hotel quarantine required by the government when they return from abroad and spend two weeks at home.
03:07
From Mexico The health ministry reported 11,228 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 801 additional fatalities on Tuesday, bringing the country’s total to 1,267,202 cases and 115,099 deaths.
The government says the actual number of infected people is likely to be significantly higher than confirmed cases.
Hospitals across Mexico are approaching nationwide capacity, but the shortage of Covid-19 beds is particularly severe in Mexico City.
02:44
Only three critical care beds remained unoccupied in Seoul, a city of 26 million people
From South Korea The top priority is to get more hospital beds to deal with a historic increase in coronavirus cases and reduce the corresponding rise in deaths, the country’s prime minister said on Wednesday.
He Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported 1,078 new cases of coronavirus at midnight on Tuesday, the highest since the start of the pandemic.
The latest number came three days after the daily count exceeded 1,000 for the first time since South Korea confirmed its first coronavirus infection in January.
The KDCA also reported 12 more deaths, the second day of double-digit deaths after a record 13 the day before in a country that had kept cases and deaths relatively low through aggressive monitoring and testing.
The number of serious cases has doubled in the last two weeks to reach a record high of 226 on Wednesday.
There were only three large critical care beds left Seoul area with about 26 million people, officials said.
“The top priority is to get more hospital beds,” Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun he said at a government meeting, according to a transcript.
“Full administrative power should be mobilized so that no patient waits more than a day before being assigned to his bed.”
He said the government is making every effort to enforce the current rules of social distancing in an effort to avoid having to impose the highest level of restrictions, which would be the country’s first blockade.
02:06
Workers at the busiest U.S. seaport are ripping off toy containers from ships and massive masses of cargo reservoir docks at the Southern California commercial gate to get holiday gifts under the trees in time for Christmas, it reports Reuters.
“We’ve never had so much cargo,” Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said Tuesday when the port announced that imports increased 25 percent during the month of November.
With so many cargo floods before Christmas, “we are essentially in a triage situation,” said Seroka, who worked with a handful of toy manufacturers to expedite toy shipments.
Imports into the port of Los Angeles have grown for more than five months as U.S. companies rebuild exhausted inventories of everything from appliances to bicycles; storing personal protective equipment and other wanted goods in a worsening pandemic; and get ready for the winter holiday sales season.
The increase in volume has created congestion that makes trucks and trains quickly move containers out of the busiest front door by volume for U.S. trade with China. This slows incoming ships.
01:46
Greek lawmakers on Tuesday approved a budget for 2021 based on weaker forecasts for a rebound from the coronavirus pandemic, which also includes money to buy new fighter jets from France.
The latest projections see the Greek economy falling 10.5% this year, worse than the 8.2 percent forecast in October.
Meanwhile, the rebound in 2021 would have experienced an expansion of 4.8%, down from the previous forecast of 7.5%.
After overcoming the first wave of the pandemic better than most European countries, Greece in early November resorted to a national closure that has weighed on activity and is now expected to last until January 7th.
The economy had grown again in the third quarter, after a 14% quarter-on-quarter fall in April and June, which was the worst in at least 25 years.
Greece faces “unprecedented circumstances, with uncertain facts and the end of the crisis unknown,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told lawmakers before the vote.
But as inoculations around the world begin, with the forecast that the European Union will continue soon, he added that “the vaccine is the boundary between the end of the pandemic and the preface of the postcovid era and the budget adapts to these conditions ”.
01:36
In the UK, vaccinating the population against Covid-19 will cost up to £ 12bn, the Whitehall spending watchdog has revealed, amid details about tensions between health workers during deployment.
The National Audit Office said the government would spend up to £ 11.7 billion on buying and manufacturing Covid-19 funnels for the UK before deploying them to England.
A report released Wednesday reveals that Public Health England officials complained that they had been removed from key decisions despite having previous experience in vaccine delivery programs:
01:18