Coronavirus: Britain approves AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine as new strain spreads across world

Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus.The pandemic has already killed almost 1.8 million people around the world, sown chaos through the global economy and upended normal life for billions since the coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China, a year ago.Britain and South Africa in particular are…

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