{"id":25331,"date":"2020-12-03T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/03\/coronavirus-live-news-former-french-president-dies-of-covid-complications-global-deaths-near-15m"},"modified":"2020-12-03T20:36:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:36:55","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-former-french-president-dies-of-covid-complications-global-deaths-near-1-5m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25331","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Iran passes 1m Covid-19 cases; WHO looks at possible &#8216;e-vaccination certificates&#8217; for travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/03\/coronavirus-live-news-former-french-president-dies-of-covid-complications-global-deaths-near-15m?page=with:block-5fc8c4fb8f08462fc37cfd12#block-5fc8c4fb8f08462fc37cfd12\">Iran reports 13,922 new infections to go past 1m cases in total<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/03\/coronavirus-live-news-former-french-president-dies-of-covid-complications-global-deaths-near-15m?page=with:block-5fc8cd378f08895cf91efd05#block-5fc8cd378f08895cf91efd05\">WHO investigating prospects e-vaccination certificates<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/03\/coronavirus-live-news-former-french-president-dies-of-covid-complications-global-deaths-near-15m?page=with:block-5fc8afe98f08ca673e857057#block-5fc8afe98f08ca673e857057\">Italy to limit travel outside of towns<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/03\/us-logs-a-record-3157-coronavirus-deaths-in-one-day\">US logs a record 3,157 coronavirus deaths in one day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/02\/former-french-president-valery-giscard-destaing-dies-aged-94\">Former French president Val\u00e9ry Giscard d\u2019Estaing dies aged 94<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2020\/dec\/02\/beware-fake-coronavirus-vaccines-says-interpol\">Beware fake coronavirus vaccines, says Interpol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/dec\/03\/uk-coronavirus-live-covid-vaccine-jonathan-van-tam-pzifer-latest-updates\">UK coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-12-03T11:35:01.200Z\">11.35am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization does not recommend countries issuing \u201cimmunity passports\u201d for those who have recovered from Covid-19, but is investigating the prospects of using e-vaccination certificates, a WHO medical expert said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking very closely into the use of technology in this Covid-19 response, one of them is how we can work with member states toward an e-vaccination certificate,\u201d he told a virtual briefing in Copenhagen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-12-03T11:33:46.949Z\">11.33am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>England\u2019s National Health Service (NHS) is looking at ways to deploy Pfizer\/BioNTech\u2019s Covid-19 vaccine in care homes<\/strong> with the medical regulator, but there is no guarantee it will happen, deputy chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam said.<\/p>\n<p>Britain became the first country to approve the vaccine candidate developed by Germany\u2019s BioNTech and Pfizer on Wednesday, jumping ahead of the rest of the world in the race to begin a crucial mass inoculation programme.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS, the (medicine regulator) MHRA are working really hard, right now, to try and find a solution, so that we can get this into care homes if we possibly can.<\/p>\n<p>At this point, there is no absolute assurance of that, because&#8230; one thing we can\u2019t do is&#8230; end up with a vaccine that\u2019s been handled incorrectly, and then isn\u2019t properly viable at the end of the distribution chain.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2020\/dec\/03\/uk-coronavirus-live-covid-vaccine-jonathan-van-tam-pzifer-latest-updates\">UK coronavirus live: Van-Tam says it is possible people may need regular vaccinations<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/03\/coronavirus-live-news-former-french-president-dies-of-covid-complications-global-deaths-near-15m\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran reports 13,922 new infections to go past 1m cases in total; WHO investigating prospects e-vaccination certificates; Italy to limit travel outside of townsUS logs a record 3,157 coronavirus deaths in one dayFormer French president Val\u00e9ry Giscard d\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,221,914,299,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25331"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25351,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25331\/revisions\/25351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}