{"id":26364,"date":"2021-01-06T10:37:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T01:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/06\/coronavirus-live-news-who-chief-very-disappointed-after-china-blocks-wuhan-visit-1-in-50-infected-in-uk"},"modified":"2021-01-07T03:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T18:13:12","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-who-chief-very-disappointed-after-china-blocks-wuhan-visit-1-in-50-infected-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26364","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Ireland shuts down schools and construction; EU approves Moderna vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/06\/coronavirus-live-news-who-chief-very-disappointed-after-china-blocks-wuhan-visit-1-in-50-infected-in-uk?page=with:block-5ff5eab58f08c7a368e6d94f#block-5ff5eab58f08c7a368e6d94f\">Schools and construction work to be shuttered to curb cases<\/a>; Moderna is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/06\/coronavirus-live-news-who-chief-very-disappointed-after-china-blocks-wuhan-visit-1-in-50-infected-in-uk?page=with:block-5ff5aad48f08c7a368e6d59a#block-5ff5aad48f08c7a368e6d59a\">second vaccine to get EU approval<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/china-blocks-entry-to-who-team-studying-covids-origins\">China blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid\u2019s origins<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/05\/one-in-50-people-in-england-had-covid-in-week-to-2-january\">As parts of UK enter third lockdown, how does Europe compare?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/life-without-covid-the-nations-that-have-sidestepped-the-pandemic-so-far\">Life without Covid: nations that have sidestepped the pandemic so far<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/06\/facebook-movement-data-could-help-find-new-covid-19-locations-study-finds\">Facebook movement data \u2018could help find new Covid-19 locations\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/jan\/06\/uk-covid-live-boris-johnson-parliament-vote-new-lockdown-latest-updates\">UK coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-01-06T18:13:12.432Z\">6.13pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The dire state of UK manufacturing has left us dependent on other nations. We may soon find out why some call this a \u2018national security risk\u2019, writes Guardian columnist and senior economics commentator <strong>Aditya Chakrabortty<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In many respects, the UK goes into this mass inoculation as well-prepared as possible. Standing ready to deliver the doses are not only NHS staff but, remarkably, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/372\/bmj.n13\">volunteer army<\/a> of retired medics. The regulator moved speedily to approve both the Pfizer\/BioNTech and the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccines. And Britain is blessed with world-class scientists, which is why we have a homegrown shot.<\/p>\n<p>But if the UK\u2019s future depends on a vaccine, where are its vaccine factories? It is a fundamental question, yet one that only scientists appear to be asking. And their answer is utterly damning.<\/p>\n<p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/jan\/06\/britain-covid-shot-industrial-base-uk-manufacturing-national-security\">Britain could be mass-producing its Covid shot. Shame we junked our industrial base | Aditya Chakrabortty<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-01-06T18:10:22.822Z\">6.10pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>A more contagious variant of Covid-19 that swept through the UK has been reported in at least five states in the US<\/strong>, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kRvDOCXZPPE&amp;feature=youtu.be\">told the Washington Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have now seen that same UK virus in the US in at least five states and I would be surprised if that doesn\u2019t grow pretty rapidly,\u201d Collins said, adding that the strain doesn\u2019t seem to be more severe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/06\/coronavirus-live-news-who-chief-very-disappointed-after-china-blocks-wuhan-visit-1-in-50-infected-in-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools and construction work to be shuttered to curb cases; Moderna is second vaccine to get EU approvalChina blocks entry to WHO team studying Covid\u2019s originsAs parts of UK enter third lockdown, how does Europe compare?Life without Covid: nations tha&#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":[41,50,1066,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","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\/26364","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=26364"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26413,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26364\/revisions\/26413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}