Spain will stop using the vaccine for two weeks, the country’s Health Minister Carolina Darias announced in a nationally televised news conference Monday. It’s a “temporary and precautionary” suspension, she said, “until the risks can be evaluated by the European Medicines Agency.” After initially standing by the safety of the vaccine, German health minister Jens … Read more
Germany will not be able to lift all restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus at the beginning of February, Health Minister Jens Spahn said. There would be a need to reduce contacts for another two or three months, Spahn told Deutschlandfunk radio on Wednesday. Source link
Britain Coronavirus New Strain: People wearing protective face masks wait for passengers to arrive at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport after India cancelled all flights from the UK over fears of a new strain of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Mumbai. (Reuters image) UK Coronavirus New Strain: After six passengers arriving in New Delhi on … Read more
BERLIN: US President-elect Joe Biden may revise plans for a major troop drawdown from Germany announced by the administration of President Donald Trump over the summer, German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said on Tuesday. “During the election campaign, we heard from the Democrats that they aim to look into these plans again very thoroughly,” the … Read more
By Mihir Sharma Economists like to think of themselves as mathematicians — or, if feeling momentarily humbler, as physicists. This year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in economics, however, seem to conceive of themselves more as engineers. Like Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, who won the prize in 2012, Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson … Read more