{"id":25496,"date":"2020-12-08T13:54:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/08\/coronavirus-live-news-uk-to-start-vaccinations-on-tuesday-who-criticises-mandatory-vaccines"},"modified":"2020-12-08T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:54:48","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-uk-to-start-vaccinations-on-tuesday-south-korea-orders-vaccines-for-44-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25496","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: UK to start vaccinations on Tuesday; South Korea orders vaccines for 44 million people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK prioritising over-80s, frontline healthcare workers and care home staff and residents; France unlikely to end lockdown on 15 December; Brazil to make vaccines free<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/hopefully-its-the-beginning-of-the-end-first-in-line-prepare-for-covid-vaccine-in-uk\">\u2018The beginning of the end\u2019: first in line prepare for Covid vaccine in UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/slovakia-mass-covid-tests-cut-infection-rate-by-60-researchers-find\">Slovakia\u2019s mass testing cut infection rate by 60%, researchers say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/07\/covid-blood-test-predict-patient-survival-chances\">Covid blood test can predict patient survival chances<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/06\/california-covid-lockdown-us-new-cases-hospitalisations-deaths-stay-at-home-order\">Millions of Californians put under strict Covid lockdown<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-12-08T04:54:48.486Z\">4.54am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unseasonably quiet at Harlan Tsai\u2019s factory, which has been churning out Christmas trees, wreaths and snow angels for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters: Normally, around 30 employees at the Lien Teng Enterprise factory in Taichung, central Taiwan would be making over 10,000 trees. But this year, clients have slashed orders in anticipation of a huge slide in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic and the factory has had to cut back staff to fewer than 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have lost half or more of our exports to Europe and the Americas,\u201d said Tsai, known in Taiwan as the \u201cChristmas King\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2020-12-08T04:38:56.362Z\">4.38am <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>India reported 26,567 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Tuesday, the lowest daily increase since July 10, according to a Reuters tally.<\/p>\n<p>Daily cases have been falling in India since hitting a peak in September. The country has 9.7 million cases, second-highest caseload in the world after the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths rose by 385, the health ministry said, with the total now at 140,958.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/dec\/08\/coronavirus-live-news-uk-to-start-vaccinations-on-tuesday-who-criticises-mandatory-vaccines\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK prioritising over-80s, frontline healthcare workers and care home staff and residents; France unlikely to end lockdown on 15 December; Brazil to make vaccines free\u2018The beginning of the end\u2019: first in line prepare for Covid vaccine in UKSlovakia\u2019s ma&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1737,"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":[41,1066,221,914,1774,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-europe","category-infectious-diseases","category-long-covid","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\/25496","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\/1737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25497,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25496\/revisions\/25497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}