Coronavirus digest: AstraZeneca vaccine likely effective against new variant
25 December 2020 |
2:02 pm
The pharmaceutical company has said its vaccine would likely be effective against the new highly contagious COVID-19 variant. Meanwhile, BioNTech-Pfizer has begun shipping its vaccine across Europe. DW has the latest.
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