{"id":26964,"date":"2021-01-18T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/18\/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-approves-two-covid-vaccines-for-emergency-use-as-us-nears-400000-deaths"},"modified":"2021-01-19T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:53:18","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-brazil-approves-two-covid-vaccines-for-emergency-use-as-us-nears-400000-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26964","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: Japan detects fast-spreading variant first found in Britain; Portugal deaths at new high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/18\/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-approves-two-covid-vaccines-for-emergency-use-as-us-nears-400000-deaths?page=with:block-60058bd48f089d1901663cda#block-60058bd48f089d1901663cda\">Japan finds Covid variant in three people with no record of travel to UK<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/18\/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-approves-two-covid-vaccines-for-emergency-use-as-us-nears-400000-deaths?page=with:block-60059b598f08ec63bf213dcb#block-60059b598f08ec63bf213dcb\">Portugal\u2019s daily death toll reaches record high of 167<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2021\/jan\/18\/who-just-25-covid-vaccine-doses-administered-in-low-income-countries\">WHO: just 25 Covid vaccine doses administered in low-income countries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/bolsonaro-rival-hails-covid-vaccinations-as-triumph-of-science-against-denialists\">Bolsonaro rival says vaccine is \u2018triumph of science against denialists\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/america-year-of-covid-coronavirus-deaths-cases\">\u2018An unmitigated disaster\u2019: America\u2019s year of Covid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/18\/woman-108-survives-covid-19-truth-stryzewski-109th-birthday\">Wisconsin woman set to celebrate 109th birthday after beating Covid<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2021\/jan\/18\/uk-covid-live-coronavirus-vaccine-boris-johnson-keir-starmer-universal-credit-latest-news-updates\">UK coronavirus updates \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-01-18T16:53:18.715Z\">4.53pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The vaccine approach does not necessarily need to be changed in the light of what is now known about the new variant which has been identified in South Africa, Professor Karim adds at the briefing (see earlier posts).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccines that we see with Pfizer and Moderna with 95 per cent efficacy are among the most effective vaccines that we have for any disease. Take the measles vaccines .. this is comparable with that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-01-18T16:42:41.257Z\">4.42pm <span class=\"timezone\">GMT<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s more from Professor Abdool Karim at that presentation about the South African variant of Covid 19, where he adds that current data suggests it is not causing more severe disease.<\/p>\n<p>We also don\u2019t yet have an answer to whether vaccines are less effective against the variant, he adds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/jan\/18\/coronavirus-live-news-brazil-approves-two-covid-vaccines-for-emergency-use-as-us-nears-400000-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan finds Covid variant in three people with no record of travel to UK; Portugal\u2019s daily death toll reaches record high of 167WHO: just 25 Covid vaccine doses administered in low-income countriesBolsonaro rival says vaccine is \u2018triumph of science aga&#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":[401,41,1066,221,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-europe","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\/26964","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=26964"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26964\/revisions\/27022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}