Trump said he ‘played down’ threat because he ‘didn’t want to create panic’; France sees second highest one-day case total; Netherlands and Portugal see highest cases since April. Follow the latest updates
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- Global deaths pass 900,000
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The Oxford vaccine trials could resume in days, the Times reports:
Trials of Oxford University’s potential coronavirus vaccine could resume within days after being paused for an urgent investigation into possible adverse side-effects.
It is understood that Astrazeneca, the British drugmaker working with Oxford, halted new enrolment on trials after a British volunteer showed symptoms of transverse myelitis (TM), a rare inflammatory condition that affects the spinal cord.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths worldwide over the course of the pandemic so far has passed 900,000, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker. The true toll is likely to be higher, due to delays in reporting, differing definitions (of what constitutes a coronavirus-related death, for example) and suspected underreporting in some countries.
The next milestone of this magnitude will be 1 million dead.
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