City of rochester an announced their retirements amid protests over the handling of the death of a black man. But we begin with breaking news out of greece several fires are currently burning in the countrys largest migrant camp located on the Eastern Island of less bus they were deliberately set after additional coronavirus restrictions were announced following months of lockdown families were seen feeling from their tents that overcrowded facility holds more than 12000 people thats 4 times its capacity well ali i spoke to Douglas Hammond hes the cofounder of refocused media labs an organization that hosts citizen journalists inside maria can he explains whats unfolding. If the current moment there are several fires that are kind of all over the camp. Yes corona has been identified in this camp in recent days and the number of confirmed cases have been rising many of the asymptomatic people have been put into a quarantine area on the far eastern side of the camp and that area earlier
Hit by flooding in sudan. One of the worlds most advanced vaccine trials has been put on hold off to a participant fell ill astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with Oxford University to develop the vaccine late stage testing got underway last week thousands of taking part in the u. K. U. S. Brazil and south africa its hoped 3000000000 doses can be distributed globally but julie fisher is from Georgetown Medical university she explained why these steps have been taken. At this point a group of external experts will be consulted and its a normal part of the process theyll be called in to see if any adverse events that were reported and were serious are likely to be due to the vaccine or to be unrelated and their advice will help decide whether or not the vaccine trial continues we are all familiar with my old verse of events that can happen after vaccination like fever or pain at the s
In the u. S. State. Trials for one of the worlds leading Coronavirus Vaccine contenders have been put on hold astra zeneca says a patient has a potentially unexplained illness which will need further investigation the pharmaceutical giant is working with Oxford University to help develop the vaccine which had begun late stage testing last week thousands are taking part in the trial in the u. K. U. S. Brazil and south africa last month astra zeneca agreed to supply the e. U. Up to 400000000 doses if the vaccine is proved safe and effective taking its global target to 3000000000. 00 well lets speak to julie fisher she is an associate Research Professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown Medical university she joins us now from washington d. C. Julie i know this sounds ominous to a lot of people but this is the reason you do stage 3 trials right but what does this mean for the development of this vaccine. So this is exactly as you said the reason that there are phase 3 Clinical
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City of rochester stepped down amid protests over the death of a black man. We begin with breaking news out of the Afghan Capital kabul the Vice President has survived what appears to have been an assassination attempt a spokesman for a miller salis says hes unharmed 2 other people were killed when solace convoy was attacked lets get more details on this now speak to nazirite hes a journalist in kabul now so what more can you tell us about this attack on the Vice President s convoy. Yes an explosion trying to convert the office of vice. Kabul is a Spokesman Says mr zolli has survived the bombing but this man has been warned it and mean its your problem is that. These 2 people and want it more than a dozen and thoughtless of that that woman and children want it exposing them to do more and that but by then it was going to his or its. Not see here and who could have been behind this attack can is anyone likely to claim responsibility so far no militant who has members on stability is on