Minister to quit says foreign minister, resigns, of a growing outrage at the loss of territory. Youre going to cut about and the worst time for in this year, in the philippines, the area that bore the brunt of the cause has been another step forward in the search for a vaccine. For corona virus that killed more than 1300000. 00, people all of the world since the start of the year u. S. Pharmaceutical firm, madonna says early results from trials show that its vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective. Its a really important milestone in the fight against the penn demick. Because it demonstrates that our very senior morning to all 73 is able to prevent covert 900 disease including severe disease. And its really just a milestone though, we have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, but we still need to complete a regulatory process which involves completing the study, generally more to follow safety. And then of course, we need to get busy manufact
Immunized group. And so thats how you get the 95 its just 95 percent, which is really good because the other Team Last Week by pfizer was around 90 percent. So were getting more data that we could. This virus is ok so that this all sounds like good news. One of the things that people are going to be concerned about is the speed at which these things are going to be a big developed. Normally, it takes years for these things to develop to hit the market with done this in less than a year. So does that mean that safety is being compromised or, or what has happened to allow this to happen so quickly . Yes, safety is not in for anything. Were actually slowing it down in terms of base 3 trials. Remember a couple months ago we were trying to speed up politically and i was not good. Whats actually happening is 8. The money is now flowing at a much faster rate. Were in the middle of a global pandemic. Really Financial Resources are readily available. And in terms of infection, vaccines rely on
Has announced his resignation. We know that we can do this. We can vote back talks on libya, wrap up with rival groups, agreeing on a date for national elections, but not now. And his 4th, Dustin Johnson has won the 2nd major title of his career, the american claiming the masters with a record breaking score. So in the last hour or so, weve had some more encouraging news on the corona, virus vaccine front with news from another major drug Company Currently in clinical trials. It is the us pharmaceutical firm, modernity, which is early results from its vaccine show. It is 94. 5 percent effective. Remember donald trump made a deal with madonna back in august to purchase 100000000 doses of the vaccine when it was ready. But then is the 2nd candidate with a shot at getting approval. Pfizer announced last week that its vaccine was 90 percent effective in the late stage trials. So promising news of course, infections continue to climb this man, the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson, himself
Things we report from the area that bore the brunt to cause fear. The World Health Organization is warning the world not to relax its guard as the push for a Coronavirus Vaccine shows signs of progress. This is not the time for complacency. While we continue to receive encouraging news about called good 19 vaccines and remain cautiously optimistic about the potential for the new tools to start to arrive in the coming months. Right now, we are extremely concerned by the surging cases were seeing in some countries, particularly in europe and the americas u. S. Pharmaceutical firm says the results from trials show that the vaccine is 94. 5 percent effective. Its really important milestone in the fight against the kind of make up because it demonstrates that our very senior morning 1273. 00 is able to prevent over 1000. 00 disease including severe disease. And its really just a milestone though. We have a lot of work ahead of us knowing the vaccine is going to be effective is great news, b
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Laura i am Laura Trevelyan in new york city. This is bbc world news america. Dr. Fauci is trying to set the record straight in an interview. I have a great deal of confidence in what the u. K. Does , and if i came across differently, i apologize for that. Laura coronavirus cases explode here in the u. S. Nearly 3000 people died on wednesday. House officials warned that the worst may lie ahead. Off to belarus and armenia. There is trouble in russias backyard. For all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. President donald trump is said to be livid that the fda was the first to grant approval for the pfizer vaccine. The u. K. Announced yesterday that it will be the first country in the world to approve that vaccine meaning that vaccinations can b