Coronavirus live: Poland decides not to give AstraZeneca vaccine to over-65s; Austria lockdown to be eased
Poland confirms decision not to give AstraZeneca vaccine to elderly; Austria to cautiously open up despite not being in an ‘ideal scenario’ yet
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Uganda has announced it will reopen schools closed nearly a year ago due to the pandemic, and outlined plans to soon start vaccinating essential workers, AFP reports.
Cabinet had “approved the recommendations for reopening educational institutions” to all students, spokesman Dennis Katungi said. Classroom learning was made partially available to a small number of final year graduates in December.
Students doing their final year examinations would return first, with classes for younger learners reopening from 6 April “in a staggered fashion that will ensure compliance” with social distancing measures in schools, Katungi said.
A teenager in the UK who is emerging from a 10-month long coma has no knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic despite having caught the disease twice.
Joseph Flavill, 19, was hit by a car while walking in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, on 1 March last year, three weeks before Britain’s first national lockdown began. He has spent months in a coma after he suffered a traumatic brain injury but is slowly beginning to recover and has started responding.
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