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
The ports of military in myanmar code was draw out the results of november pause my collection. And how all these lockdown video calls from home have prompted an unexpected book the macro boost in business for books. Welcome, youre in bbc news. The European Union has announced its introducing Export Controls on Coronavirus Vaccines so that it can monitor where theyre being sent. Its the latest escalation in a deepening row between the eu and astrazeneca over supplies of the vaccine which is mostly produced here. Today the eus Medicines Regulator approved the use of the astrazeneca jab for everyone over the age of 18, though germany says it will still only give the jab to the under 65s. Our brussels correspondent nick beake reports. Throughout the week, this post brexit battle between the eu and a british based Vaccine Maker has been intensifying. European countries are demanding that astrazeneca delivers all the jabs they ordered even if it means taking them from the uk supply. It all
Authorities hope to get a much better picture of the devastation created by a powerful earthquake overnight. The tremors brought down buildings and sent residents into the streets for fear of aftershocks. The 6. 8 magnitude quake was the strongest in the region in more than 120 years. Cnns larry madow joins us from lagos nigeria. In terms of the devastation what more do we know about rescues that may be taking place this hour . Reporter paula we now that the Rescue Operation Kicks into high gear as just became dawn in morocco. Part of the problem overnight when this earthquake broke, the visibility was limited because i. T. Was night. Some people spent the night outdoors afraid of aftershocks and this etch center was in the region in the high atlas mountains. The impact was affiliate near the historic city of marrakech. The tremors felt as far as rabat and casablanca. 296 dead, 193 wounded but when they begin to assess the damage when they can see clearly the sphere is that the numbers
It is surprising how the government has reacted, as this could have been an opportunity for them to use stakeholders' inputs and improve the curriculum further