In Vaccine Drive, EU Turns to Super-Freezers, Church Leaders Bloomberg 12/21/2020 James Paton
(Bloomberg) The road to protecting the European Union’s 450 million people against the coronavirus begins in a small community in Belgium best known for brewing beer.
Refrigerated cargo trucks carrying hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses are set to roll out of Pfizer Inc.’s factory in Puurs 15 miles south of Antwerp in the coming days, marking the start of an unprecedented effort to deliver the shot to 27 countries at the same time.
From Malta to Finland, the EU is about to embark on an immunization campaign aimed at halting a pathogen that’s ravaged the continent this year. Trailing the U.K. and U.S., the bloc has been feeling the heat, especially because the first vaccine was pioneered in Germany. The shot developed by BioNTech SE and Pfizer was cleared by the European medicines regulator on Monday, paving the way for the first people to be immunized
This 107-year-old woman beat Covid-19
From CNN s Kay Jones and Amanda Jackson
Tillie Dybing. Ecumen
Tillie Dybing is a survivor.
At the age of 107, the Minnesota woman recently beat Covid-19 after being diagnosed this fall, according to officials at the Ecumen Detroit Lakes community home, where she has lived since 2015.
This isn t the first pandemic Dybing has lived through. Born in 1913, she was almost 5 years old when the 1918 flu pandemic hit her family farm in North Dakota, she told CNN affiliate KARE. My folks got sick and they were in bed, and I d run into the bed and my Dad said, Can t you find another place to run, she said.
China will suspend inbound international flights if five people onboard test positive for coronavirus
From CNN s Eric Cheung in Hong Kong
A security guard watches over the empty international arrivals channel at Beijing airport on November 6. Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images
China will suspend inbound international flight routes if five or more people test positive for Covid-19 when they land, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said in a statement on Wednesday.
Under the new rules, if five or more passengers test positive for Covid-19 after arriving in China on a flight, the airline company will be banned from running those flights for two weeks, it said.
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