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With general costs for the vaccination of the British population For £ 12 billion, the Public Accounts Commission has highlighted ‘highly unusual’ schemes.
Vaccinating the population against Covid-19 will cost up to £ 12 billion, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has revealed, amid details of tensions between health authorities during the rollout.
The National Court of Auditors said the government would spend up to £ 11.7 billion on the purchase and production of Covid-19 jabs for the UK before deploying them in England.
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It has been described as “very non-Australian– one of the fiercest, yet most flexible criticisms you can make in this part of the world.
Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Officials may skip government-mandated hotel quarantine when returning from abroad, instead spend two weeks at home.
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Mexico’s The Ministry of Health reported 11,228 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 801 additional fatalities on Tuesday, bringing the total in the country to 1,267,202 cases and 115,099 deaths.
The government says the actual number of people infected is likely to be significantly higher than the confirmed cases.
Hospitals across Mexico are nearing capacity across the country, but the Covid-19 bed shortage is particularly acute in Mexico City.
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In Seoul, a city of 26 million inhabitants, there are only three unoccupied intensive care beds left
South Korea The top priority is to secure more hospital beds to accommodate a record increase in coronavirus cases and smooth out a corresponding spike in deaths, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday.
The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) reported 1,078 new cases of coronavirus as of midnight Tuesday, the highest number since the start of the pandemic.
The latest number came three days after the daily number first rose above 1,000 since South Korea confirmed its first coronavirus infection in January.
The KDCA also reported 12 more deaths, the second day of double-digit deaths after a record of 13 the day before in a country that had kept the total number of cases and deaths relatively low through aggressive detection and testing.
The number of serious cases has more than doubled in the past two weeks, hitting a record high of 226 on Wednesday.
There were only three intensive care beds in the larger one Seoul area with nearly 26 million residents, officials said.
“The highest priority is to secure more hospital beds”, Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun told a government meeting, according to a transcript.
“Full administrative power must be mobilized so that no patient waits more than a day before being assigned to her bedside.”
He said the government is making every effort to implement current social distance rules in an effort to avoid imposing the highest level of restrictions, which would effectively be the country’s first lockdown.
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Workers in America’s busiest seaport pick containers of toys from ships and huge piles of cargo docks at the Southern California trade port to get Christmas gifts under trees in time for Christmas, Reuters reports.
“We’ve never had this much cargo,” Gene Seroka, executive director of the Port of Los Angeles, said Tuesday, when the port announced imports were up 25% in November.
With so much cargo pouring in for Christmas, “we’re essentially in a triage situation,” said Seroka, who worked with a handful of toy manufacturers to speed up toy shipments.
Imports into the Port of Los Angeles have been booming for more than five months as US companies rebuild depleted inventories of everything from appliances to bicycles; a supply of personal protective equipment and other sought-after goods in an ever-worsening pandemic; and prepare for the winter holiday sales season.
The increase in volume has created congestion, making it more difficult for trucks and trains to move containers quickly from the busiest port by volume for US trade with China. That in turn slows incoming ships.
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Greek lawmakers on Tuesday approved a 2021 budget built around weaker predictions for a recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, which also includes money for buying new fighter jets from France.
According to the latest projections, the Greek economy fell by 10.5% this year, worse than the 8.2% forecast in October.
Meanwhile, the 2021 recovery should see growth of 4.8%, down from a previous 7.5% forecast.
After Greece weathered the first wave of the pandemic better than most European countries, Greece resorted to a nationwide lockdown in early November that weighed on activity and is now expected to last until January 7.
The economy was growing again in the third quarter, after a 14% quarter-on-quarter decline in April-June, the worst in at least 25 years.
Greece is facing “unprecedented circumstances, with uncertain facts and the end of the crisis unknown,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told lawmakers before the vote.
But as vaccinations take off around the world and the European Union is expected to soon follow suit, he added that “the vaccine is the boundary between the end of the pandemic and the foreword of the post-covid era, and that the budget is adjusted to these conditions ”.
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In the UK, vaccinating the population against Covid-19 will cost up to £ 12 billion, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has revealed, amid details of tensions between health authorities during the rollout.
The National Audit Office said the government would spend up to £ 11.7 billion on the purchase and production of Covid-19 jabs for the UK before deploying them in England.
A report released Wednesday reveals that Public Health England officials complained that they had not made important decisions despite previous experience with vaccine delivery programs:
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