{"id":32023,"date":"2021-05-12T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T07:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/12\/coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-found-in-44-countries-who-taiwan-faces-new-outbreak"},"modified":"2021-05-12T20:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T11:39:50","slug":"coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-found-in-44-countries-who-taiwan-faces-new-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32023","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus live news: India variant found in 44 countries \u2013 WHO; Taiwan faces new outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/12\/coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-found-in-44-countries-who-taiwan-faces-new-outbreak?page=with:block-609b5a1d8f08973dcfaceb7b#block-609b5a1d8f08973dcfaceb7b\">Another record rise in India deaths;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/12\/coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-found-in-44-countries-who-taiwan-faces-new-outbreak?page=with:block-609b44938f08162fadb185d7#block-609b44938f08162fadb185d7\">samples show UK is most affected by B.1.617 strain outside India;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/may\/12\/coronavirus-live-news-india-variant-found-in-44-countries-who-taiwan-faces-new-outbreak?page=with:block-609b5b008f080cbad78fb451#block-609b5b008f080cbad78fb451\">Taiwan outbreak \u2018could lead to tighter curbs\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/12\/indian-covid-variant-calls-in-question-17-may-reopening-in-uk-say-experts\">Spike in India variant poses threat to UK reopening, scientists say<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/may\/11\/victorian-man-tests-positive-to-covid-after-completing-hotel-quarantine-in-south-australia\">Australia: fresh outbreak blamed on hotel quarantine leak<\/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\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-05-12T11:39:50.797Z\">12.39pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Hungary<\/strong> has submitted to Brussels a national plan for accessing the EU\u2019s post-pandemic recovery fund, which it had previously threatened to veto over proposals to link some payments to rule of law conditions, the <strong>European Commission<\/strong> has said.<\/p>\n<p>AFP reports:<\/p>\n<p>The \u20ac750-billion rescue package of grants and loans comprises funds contributed by the EU\u2019s 27 member states to help the bloc\u2019s economies hard hit by the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Budapest and Warsaw threatened to veto the fund last year, along with the entire EU budget, over proposals to link some fund payments to rule of law conditions, describing it as \u201cpolitical blackmail\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-05-12T11:30:35.065Z\">12.30pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Every person living in <strong>Germany<\/strong> will have developed immunity against Covid-19 within the next one and a half years, the country\u2019s leading coronavirus expert has predicted, arguing that those who decide not to get vaccinated are certain to eventually catch a virus that will continue to circulate around the population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christian Drosten<\/strong>, the director of the Charit\u00e9 Hospital\u2019s Institute of Virology in Berlin, said in an interview podcast with broadcaster NDR that debates around herd immunity might be important for political planning but were largely \u201cirrelevant\u201d from a patient\u2019s point of view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone will gain immunity, one hundred percent, not seventy or eighty\u201d, Drosten said. \u201cEither through vaccination or natural infection, because this virus will become endemic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The scientist said he expected the virus to continue to silently circulate through the population as social distancing restrictions were lifted, for example via the throats of people who have been vaccinated or children under the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who actively choose not to be vaccinated have to know that they are actively opting for a natural infection instead\u201d, Drosten warned. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that can be done about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A third of Germany\u2019s population has received at least one shot of a vaccine, with 35.7 million doses administered by yesterday afternoon. 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