Coronavirus live news: China and WHO criticised by independent Covid panel; US nears 400,000 deaths
California’s state epidemiologist calls to stop 300,000 vaccinations after possible severe allergic reactions; tens of thousands skip vaccination in India
- Trump lifting Covid travel restrictions on UK, much of Europe and Brazil
- WHO: just 25 Covid vaccine doses administered in low-income countries
- China and WHO made mistakes in containing Covid outbreak, says panel
- Germany weighs up mandatory FFP2 masks in shops and on transport
- Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro sends oxygen to tackle Brazil’s Covid crisis
The Pacific archipelago of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is rapidly rolling out Covid-19 vaccines across its islands.
The US territory has a population of a little more than 50,000 people: 3,389 have received a first dose vaccine, and more than 300 have had a second dose.
An independent panel has said that Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January 2020 to curb the initial Covid-19 outbreak, and criticised the World Health Organization (WHO) for not declaring an international emergency until 30 January.
The experts reviewing the global handling of the pandemic, led by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, called for reforms to the Geneva-based UN agency.
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