{"id":31990,"date":"2021-05-11T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T06:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/11\/coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-of-concern-globally-says-who-pfizer-vaccine-approved-for-us-12-15-year-olds"},"modified":"2021-05-11T19:29:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T10:29:31","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-of-concern-globally-says-who-pfizer-vaccine-approved-for-us-12-15-year-olds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31990","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: NHS app to \u2018prove\u2019 vaccine status for international travel; EU opens AstraZeneca court case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hancock confirms NHS app will be used to permit travel; EU pressuring AstraZeneca to deliver 120m doses by end of June<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/10\/pfizer-vaccine-fda-authorized-children-12-15\">US authorises Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children ages 12 to 15<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2021\/may\/11\/what-is-the-dangerous-black-fungus-being-seen-in-covid-patients-in-india-mucormycosis\">Explainer: the deadly \u2018black fungus\u2019 seen in Covid patients in India<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/11\/nepal-urges-everest-climbers-to-return-used-oxygen-canisters-amid-covid-crisis\">Nepal urges climbers to return used oxygen canisters amid Covid crisis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/10\/india-dozens-of-suspected-covid-victims-wash-up-on-ganges-river-banks\">Dozens of suspected Covid victims wash up on Ganges River banks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/10\/boris-johnson-confirms-further-easing-of-lockdown-in-england\">Boris Johnson confirms further lockdown easing in England<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-05-11T10:27:38.589Z\">11.27am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Philippines<\/strong> has discovered its first two cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in <strong>India<\/strong>, its health ministry has announced as the new cases fall to a near eight-week low.<\/p>\n<p>The cases confirmed in two Filipino seafarers who returned in April, Reuters reports that Alethea De Guzman, director of the ministry\u2019s epidemiology bureau, told a news conference on Tuesday. They were both isolated and both have since recovered, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-05-11T10:08:54.607Z\">11.08am <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Activists have blockaded the entrance to <strong>AstraZeneca<\/strong>\u2019s headquarters in a call on the company to waive its Covid vaccine patent.<\/p>\n<p>Two protesters chained themselves to the doors to the company\u2019s <strong>Cambridge<\/strong> site, while two others climbed above to hang a banner over the entrance reading: \u201cPeople\u2019s vaccine not profit vaccine. #JoinCTAP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Protesters have blockaded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstraZeneca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AstraZeneca<\/a>\u2019s cambridge hq to call for the company to waive the patent for its <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#coronavirus<\/a> vaccine <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeoplesVaccine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeoplesVaccine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nd26h51CCB\">pic.twitter.com\/Nd26h51CCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Two protesters have climbed above the entrance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstraZeneca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AstraZeneca<\/a> hq and two more are chained to the doors to stop people getting in. The action comes on the day of the company\u2019s AGM. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q7V5SplDCi\">pic.twitter.com\/Q7V5SplDCi<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThey could be deciding today to start profiting [from the vaccine] as thousands of people die everyday in India.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Coati\u2019 explains why he\u2019s chained to the door at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AstraZeneca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AstraZeneca<\/a>\u2019s headquarters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XLFhz5LpA7\">pic.twitter.com\/XLFhz5LpA7<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/11\/coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-of-concern-globally-says-who-pfizer-vaccine-approved-for-us-12-15-year-olds\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hancock confirms NHS app will be used to permit travel; EU pressuring AstraZeneca to deliver 120m doses by end of JuneUS authorises Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for children ages 12 to 15Explainer: the deadly \u2018black fungus\u2019 seen in Covid patients in Indi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2176,"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":[1066,62,914,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","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\/31990","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\/2176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions\/32004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}