The campaign was organised after a baby waS Partly paralysed by the first case of the virus in two decades. From jerusalem, our Middle East correspondent, Yolande Knell reports. Just two drops as the un begins vaccinating against polio in gaza. A dose is easy to give, but carrying out a Mass Immunisation campaign in a Combat Zone is a huge challenge. Parents of the first vaccinated children are relieved. Translation i was worried and afraid because this is scary. The polio disease. This disease makes the children unable to move. Baby abdulrahman was crawling early, but now his mum Worries Hell never be able to walk. He was the first child found he was the first child found to have polio in gaza in 25 to have polio in gaza in 25 years, and it years, and it paralysed his leg. Paralysed his leg. Because of the war he wasnt because of the war he wasnt vaccinated and now vaccinated and now medical care is limited. Medical care is limited. Translation he wants translation he wants to live an
Disabled people, next year we will publish our National Strategy for disabled people which will be most ambitious intervention in this area putting fairness at the heart of the government and leveling up so everybody has the opportunity to participate in the life of this country. I know the whole house will want to join me in welcoming fantastic news the nhra authorize the fisa pfizer vaccine, to be made available across the uk for next week and i would pay tribute to all those who made this possible, the protection of vaccines will ultimately allow us to reclaim our lives and get our economy moving again. This morning i have met with ministerial colleagues and others and have further such meetings later. I would like to share congratulations with the Prime Minister on the creation of this new vaccine and give congratulations to engineers, technicians and scientists, i believe we should support the widest distribution of safe and effective medicines but does my right honorable friend a
Inperson activities shut down can the nfl save football from a covid collapse announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the truth, the news with shepd ard smith. Good evening. Doctors and Health Experts warning about another surge of covid cases. More on the cure in just a moment but first, a look at where this pandemic stands heading into the month of december. The United States now averaging more than 162,000 cases this past week. This month alone, we reported more than 4. 2 million new cases. That means near lily one third all of the cases have been added in november. Right now 93,000 americans are hospitalized with covid. As you can see here, the deaths are climbing towards that peak it comes as millions of americans struggle to dig themselves out of financial holes caused by the pandemic so far congress has failed to provide more relief. The consequences of the inaction growing by the day but its a different story on wall street. The dow rose by more than 11 in just
Bay that all means weve got more to come as we go more see more showers throughout the night tonight and certainly we see the rain out there and the wind too as the front moved by look at the winds gusting over 20 miles an hour almost 30 miles an hour in some urban areas reports of gusts higher than that as high as 50 across some of the mountain top so a blustery day out there continue to see the showers around the bay area now most that just some light activity in the San Francisco see the raindrops there. Then becoming a little bit more broken as that front has moved into the south bay in toward Woodside Palo alto youre getting some rain in the san jose got a couple raindrops fremont yeah youre seeing some rain to all around the bay area a lot of rain coming down more on the way to how much more can we expect to see and thats a lot of folks want to know now well talk about that coming up when we just side when it starts with a lot of folks are like lets get this over with thank you a
The drive to get more laptops to children to help them with Home Schooling. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected boost in business for books. And coming up on bbc news. West bromwich albion Contact Police over alleged online racist abuse of romaine sawyers. Hes the Third Premier League player to receive abuse this week. Good evening. Yet another new vaccine has been shown to be effective in major trials in just 2a hours. The latest is the janssen vaccine. Its 66 effective overall and only needs a single dose. And crucially its 85 effective against severe disease. Last night novavax announced uk trials had shown its vaccine to be 89 effective. And crucially that vaccine protects against the new more contagious uk variant. If approved the uk has millions of doses of both vaccines on order though they wouldnt be available until later in the year. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Covid Vaccine Trials keep delivering results beyond all expecta