COVID-19 VACCINE DISTRIBUTION STILL MONTHS AWAY

This week US biotech firm Moderna announced that their experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was almost 95 percent effective, marking a major breakthrough in the quest to end the pandemic. Moderna released early results from a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants, after American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week said their vaccine was 90 percent effective. The news came

Iconic as British virus actor infections Sean Connery, continue who has to died surge at the age of 90, suffered from dementia in his final years, his widow Micheline Roquebrune revealed

across the globe, especially in Europe on Sunday. Connery passed away at his home in the Bahamas.

He and died peacefully the United in his States. sleep surrounded “Today’s by news family members, of his widow Micheline a second Roquebrune vaccine said on Sunday. is further “I was reason with him to all the feel time and he just slipped away,” the 91-year-old said. “He had dementia and it took its toll on him. He got his

hopeful,” tweeted US President-elect Joe final wish to slip away without any fuss.

It was Biden, no life but for him. he cautioned He was not able that to express the vaccine’s himself lately.” Connery played the role of James Bond from 1962, a role that would later be played by other notable

widespread distribution is months away. actors such as David Niven, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton He thus asked for the usual protocols of social distancing and mask-wearing to continue as the norm in the fight against the pandemic. Global infections from Covid-19 have soared past 54 million with more than 1.3 million deaths since

The opposition the virus in emerged Ivory Coast in says China it is late creating last a year. transitional government after it boycotted a presidential election on Saturday over President Alassane

China and Russia also say that they have

Ouattara’s decision to stand for a third term in office.

One manufactured of the transitional government’s effective Covid-19 roles will be to vacorganise a fair, transparent and inclusive presidential election, opposition leader Pascal Affi N’Guessan said.

cines. It is not yet clear how long lasting

He said a council of national transition had been formed which would appoint a

the protection will be from either the transitional government to be headed by former president Henri Konan Bédié, who is the Moderna head of the Democratic or Pfizer vaccines, Party of Ivory nor Coast.“Maintaining how well Mr Ouattara as head of state is likely to lead to civil war,” Mr N’Guessan said.The ruling party has

they work for the elderly, the age-group at warned the opposition against any “attempt to destabilise” the country. At least

highest risk from Covid-19. Another open nine people were killed in clashes during the election, as opposition protesters tried question to stop people is whether from voting. they stop people who are exposed to the virus from transmitting it on to the other people, even though they may be themselves protected from the disease.