Here’s a quick summary of what has happened around the world over the last 24 hours, brought to you exclusively by British Herald.
According to a BBC report, an Indian herbal remedy is being sold in London shops, mainly where Asians reside, as an ‘immunity booster’. Despite the claims of its manufacturer, Patanjali Ayurveda, that the pills guard against “respiratory tract infections”, recent tests carried out for the broadcaster have revealed they do not offer any such protection.
The British government is taking strong efforts to persuade the Trump administration to lift or even relax travel restrictions that restrict most people in the UK from traveling to the United States, according to sources.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called senior ministers to an unscheduled meeting to talk about containing a new variant of the coronavirus, found to be more virulent, as reported by The Telegraph newspaper.
US distribution of a second COVID-19 vaccine, from Moderna, is ready to start shipping to more than 3,800 sites this weekend, vastly widening the rollout begun last week with Pfizer, the drug company and distributor McKesson said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to avoid visiting family members over Christmas and to use video calls instead for greetings, the way service members stationed abroad do, as the country battles COVID-19.
Shop closures and traffic restrictions in Iran will begin earlier in an effort to avert a resurgence of coronavirus infections and deaths as Iranians prepare for the Yalda Night winter festival, authorities reported.
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