Category: january 2021

Glen McGregor breaks down the impact on Pfizer temporarily reducing vaccine shipments and the impact on Canada’s vaccination plan.

The UK is closing all its travel corridors as fears grow about new variants of the coronavirus. Anyone arriving in the UK will have to present a negative test and will still have to self-isolate for up to 10 days. It came as Boris Johnson urged people to stay at home – with hospitals across the UK under extraordinary pressure. A record 37,000 people are being treated in hospital for coronavirus with the peak not expected for another 10 days in most areas. A quarter of patients are under the age of 55. Hospitals in Nottingham and Newcastle among others are preparing to accept intensive care patients from London, to try to ease the pressure on the worst-hit areas. Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by health editor Hugh Pym, transport correspondent Caroline Davies and deputy political editor Vicki Young.

Reported global coronavirus deaths are set to hit two million. Even as countries race to vaccinate their populations, the COVID-19 death toll continues to rise at an alarming rate. New variants of the coronavirus, which scientists believe are more transmissible, have been blamed for a surge in infections. Across the world, countries are facing a second or third wave, with many governments tightening lockdowns already in place.

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, has said it is possible that members of Congress could face prosecution if found to have ‘aided and abetted’ the violent attack on the Capitol earlier this month that left five people dead .

Senator Bernie Sanders comments on the troubling prospect that members of Congress may have aided the Capitol insurrectionists and he lays out an ambitious agenda for the new Senate, which he insists must prioritize relief for Americans suffering from the pandemic and high unemployment.

Nationwide, more than 126,000 people are hospitalized with Covid-19. On Saturday, Los Angeles County surpassed 1 million infections.

As America prepares for a transition of power, it has been anything but peaceful. Disturbing new details of the intent of the Capitol rioters. How fragile is America’s future? And the pandemic. What we’ve learned about COVID-19’s transmissibility. How we’re tracking the more contagious new variants. The new year always brings hope of new beginnings and fresh starts. Who wasn’t ready to turn the page on the pandemic and the politics of 2020. And yet we may have to brace ourselves for what lies ahead in 2021. The second wave of the coronavirus is worse than the first and Canada’s closet ally and neighbour is bracing for more political violence.

President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9-trillion stimulus package proposal on Thursday designed to jump-start the economy and speed up the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic.