Pulling Mercedes out of Snow Goes Wrong
A white car is stuck in the snow, and when the tow truck tries to pull it out the bumper ends up getting pretty damaged.
Melania Trump's photo snub prompts speculation over post-White House path. Former first lady walks off after touching down at Palm Beach airport this week, leaving husband to relish the spotlight alone
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It comes almost three weeks after Boris Johnson ordered lockdown.
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AstraZeneca is to cut deliveries of its Covid-19 vaccine to the European Union by 60 per cent in the first quarter of the year due to production problems, in a blow to the bloc’s efforts to push back against the virus. The British firm was expected to deliver about 80 million doses to the 27 EU countries by the end of March, but now only 31 million will be delivered. The decrease will further hamper Europe's Covid-19 vaccination drive after Pfizer and partner BioNTech slowed supplies of their vaccine this week, saying the move was needed because of work to ramp up production. The UK will not be affected by the shortfall, insiders stressed, because the majority of doses, produced in conjunction with the University of Oxford, are manufactured in this country. A spokesman for AstraZeneca, said: “While there is no scheduled delay to the start of shipments of our vaccine should we receive approval in Europe, initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated due to reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain. “We will be supplying tens of millions of doses in February and March to the European Union, as we continue to ramp up production volumes.”
‘There was a protocol breach when the front doors were not held open’
Matt Hancock has warned there is potential evidence a mutated strain of coronavirus that was detected in South Africa could reduce the effectiveness of vaccines by 50 per cent. The Health Secretary said “there is evidence in the public domain, although we are not sure of this data” and said the variant is being tested at the Government’s Porton Down research facility as well as in a clinical trial in South Africa to check the efficacy of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine.
The nine areas with highest numbers of coronavirus infections all lie in London or the North West of England.
Seeds have been sown for future team-up
Knowsley, Slough and Sandwell continue to record the highest rates.
Mr Johnson said Democrats have to choose between 'being vindictive or staffing administration to keep nation safe’
Between 21 December and 22 January, total of 28,580 deaths reported by government
A devoted dog has spent days outside a hospital where her beloved owner was being treated. Boncuk has returned every day to a hospital in the Turkish city of Trabzon, to wait for her owner, Cemal Senturk. Senturk’s daughter, Aynur Egeli, said she would take Boncuk home but the dog would repeatedly run off and return to the hospital to continue her vigil. Watch the touching moment where an excited Boncuk and Cemal are reunited.
Do not help your flood-hit neighbours, a council has warned amid concern "gestures of kindness and goodwill" could fuel the spread of Covid. Hundreds of properties in England and Wales have been flooded after days of heavy rain caused by Storm Christoph, leaving families displaced during a national lockdown. A severe flood warning - meaning danger to life - was in force on Friday for the River Dee at Farndon, Cheshire, while 138 flood warnings, indicating that flooding is expected, were issued across other parts of the country. The Coastguard released footage of a particularly daring rescue effort which saw three people, including a child, lifted into a helicopter by a winch from their flooded home in North Wales. Social distancing has this year been at the heart of councils’ emergency response as public health officials try to prevent rescue operations turning into the scene of viral outbreaks. On Friday, a local authority in one of the worst-affected parts of the country even sought to stamp out the displays of community spirit that can follow destructive storms as volunteers rush to assist the relief effort. Warrington Borough Council released a statement, co-signed by its director of public health, urging the public to “avoid going to any community venues that may have opened”. “People congregating indoors poses significant risks of coronavirus being transmitted,” it continued. The authority said it had seen “many gestures of kindness and goodwill from our communities who are supporting those affected”, but added: “Coronavirus can, and will, spread very easily and will take advantage of any occasion where people are gathering or sharing supplies that may be being passed around.”
Up to half a million fewer doses of Covid vaccine will be supplied to the NHS next week as Whitehall sources admitted the target of vaccinating priority groups by mid-February was increasingly “tight”. Deliveries of the Pfizer vaccine will be cut by between 15 and 20 per cent next week after the US firm announced delays in shipments because of work to increase capacity at its Belgian processing plant, sources said. Boris Johnson announced on Friday that more than 400,000 people in the UK were vaccinated on Thursday in another record day for the national rollout. "Our immunisation programme continues at an unprecedented rate," the Prime Minister told a Downing Street press conference. "5.4 million people across the UK have now received their first dose of the vaccine and over the last 24 hours we can report a record 400,000 vaccinations. "In England, one in 10 of all adults have received their first dose, including 71 per cent of over-80s and two-thirds of elderly care home residents."
'Just vote and shut up, you're not special,' says former Republican lawmaker Joe Scarborough
Effort against ex-president reportedly includes former top Trump administration officials
Vallance, Chris Whitty and Boris Johnson painted a sober picture of the weeks and months to come.
Foreign minister Péter Szijjártó announces acquisition of 2 million doses as European frustrations grow over delays in deliveries of Western alternatives
Leon Street was stabbed to death on January 11 in Neasden.