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| - These are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: France reverses its decision and authorises the AstraZeneca vaccine for people over 65 with pre-existing conditions. German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to allow more socialising between households from next week as part of plans to gradually loosen virus curbs, a draft text yet to be agreed by regional premiers shows. The premiers are due to hold talks with Merkel on Wednesday. A shipment of nearly four million jabs arrives in Nigeria, making Africa's most populous nation the latest country to receive vaccines from the global Covax scheme. Researchers analysing more than 2,000 articles in the 10 leading health and medical journals find just four percent of virus research is relevant to Africa despite the continent containing close to a fifth of humanity. Save the Children says students around the world have lost more than a third of the standard global 190-day school year because of the pandemic and urges swift action to prevent lasting damage. Iraq gets 50,000 Sinopharm vaccines donated by China and launches a long-awaited vaccination campaign. US biotech company Novavax says it hopes to file for British approval of its vaccine at the start of the second quarter of 2021, and to do the same soon after in the United States. Twitter will start labelling misleading tweets about vaccines and will use a "strike system" for users who persist in spreading such misinformation, leading to a permanent ban after the fifth offending tweet. Britain is expected to keep vast emergency financial support propping up the country's virus-battered economy when unveiling its annual budget but could also raise taxes to fight surging debt. An NGO reports health workers battling the virus were subjected to more than 400 acts of violence worldwide in 2020, including a nurse in Mexico injured by a group accusing her of spreading the virus. Japan has asked China to avoid using anal swabs to test its citizens for the virus, saying the method prompted complaints of "psychological distress". The video conferencing platform reports a strong finish to its fiscal year and projects it will grow some 40 percent in 2021 despite the likelihood that vaccines will make remote work and home schooling less of a necessity. Japan investigates a freezer malfunction that caused 1,000 Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses to spoil and be thrown out. The virus has killed at least 2,539,505 people since it emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally compiled from official sources. The US is the worst-affected country with 514,657 deaths, followed by Brazil (255,720), Mexico (186,152), India (157,248) and Britain (122,953). burs-nrh/eab/spm
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