Covid-19 wrap: EU reaches vaccine deal, WHO says Europe can fight virus without lockdowns
Covid-19 screening and testing programme.Britain recorded 1 182 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the second-highest daily total since 21 June, government figures showed.
An agreement to buy the vaccine will come once it has been shown to be safe and effective, the commission said.No more parties and events in homes listed on Airbnb, the short-term home rental company said on Thursday as it tries to enforce strict social-distancing norms to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Last year, Airbnb began imposing much stricter limits, starting with a global ban on"party houses" or listings that create persistent neighbourhood nuisance. San Francisco-based Airbnb said in July that customers had booked more than 1 million nights in a single day for the first time since 2 March, in part as US travellers shy away from hotels and prefer to drive to local vacation rentals.Germany and France recorded their worst daily infection rates in months with concerns growing that cases could spike in Europe as holidaymakers come home and children return to school.
The survey, which tested a sample of the population for the presence of antibodies, was done in the national capital territory in the first week of August, its health minister Satyendra Jain told a news conference on Thursday. India reported a record daily jump of 69 652 coronavirus infections on Thursday, data from the federal health ministry showed. Deaths rose by 977 to a total of 53 866.
"But we are not in February, we can manage the virus differently now than we did when Covid-19 first emerged," Kluge said. The WHO's European region, which covers 55 countries, has registered almost four million confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 215 000 deaths linked to the virus, according to the organisation.Nigeria is considering partnerships between state governments and private firms to ramp up testing and tracing of coronavirus cases after international flights resume this month, the head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control said.
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