Settlements and forced from their homes. We need the feel p. And so fled to sudan and are now desperate for help. Im joining us though with Sports Major League Baseball star Robinson Camaro has been banned for a whole season for doping and must fulfill his 24000000. 00 salary. Thank you for joining us. We start this news hour with the coronavirus funday make and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show, promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those age over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with Oxford University and is now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to mount. More than 2000000. 00 cases have now been reported in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the 54. 00 country, continent globally cases have surpassed 56000000. 00.
American singer songwriter bob dylan sells his entire song catalog and whats being called one of the biggest ever publishing deals. The u. S. Has seen its deadliest week of the coronavirus pandemic since april and Health Experts are warning the worst is yet to come nearly 2000 americans have died each day in the past week the countrys top Infectious Disease expert says the winter holidays surge hasnt even hit yet as people prepare to travel and get together for christmas. What we have now is a challenge ahead of us of the bleak months of december in january where we have a baseline of inspections that literally is breaking records every day with the guts of number of infections number of hospitalizations and numbers of deaths the numbers are really stunning we can do something about it but thats something right now is Public Health measures i mean hospitals in california could run out of bags in their intensive care units thats why the governor there has imposed lockdown in parts of th
While american officials meet to decide who will get inoculated 1st and the uns Nuclear Watchdog appeals to iran to reconsider its plan to halt inspections of its something. Its Donald Trumps bid to overturn the us president ial election result has suffered another major blow with the attorney general saying there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud. We about told the Associated Press that the Justice Department investigation has in his words, not seen ford on a scale that could have affected different outcome. President elect joe biden be trumped 53062232 votes in the Electoral College and more than 6000000 in the popular vote. But its been down to a white house correspondent, alan fischer. Alan. So william barr is all was perhaps one of Donald Trumps biggest supporters. There must be a particular sort of sting in this one for the president. Yeah, you got to think about what 1000000000 bar was saying before the election saying that 1000000 votes were ripe for fraud. And now he is
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People because as we get older. d our immune systems deteriorate. This vaccine is different from the other 2 that weve been reporting on because it is made from a weakened version of the common cold virus found in chimpanzees, which is then modified to make sure that it cannot grow in humans is given in 2 doses. And so far is reporting a 99 percent efficacy rate. All participants have been gently generating neutralizing antibodies. So it is knocking out the virus in their bloodstream with no reported side effects. And that is very good news here because this is the vaccine that britain is betting on. It has bought 100000000 doses of it so far. And so we are eagerly awaiting the phase 3 result. Whats interesting is that initially this vaccine was one of the front runners, and we thought wed be getting results much earlier. But as we know in the last 10 days, the pfizer bio and tech and the madonna vaccines have pulled ahead and, and have shown that they are more than 90 percent effectiv