Experts the worst of the Covid-19 disease is yet to come for the US as daily cases hit a record. A number of companies developed vaccines to tackle the pandemic. Lower-cost vaccineOn Wednesday Britain approved a lower-cost vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and drug firm AstraZeneca, making it the third jab to win approval in the Western world, after the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. International trustRussia and China also claim to have developed Covid-19 vaccines, and have already started administering them. It logged more than 1 000 daily deaths for the first time, authorities said on Wednesday, as Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that the country's "difficult times" were going to last "for a good while yet".

Source: News 24 December 31, 2020 05:03 UTC