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Now playing Next World News EU medicines agency recommends authorising Moderna COVID-19 vaccine The EU's medicines regulator recommended authorising a second coronavirus vaccine in the bloc. 06/01/2021
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Now playing Next World News COVID-19: Greece back under lockdown, France sets earlier curfew A strict one-week lockdown is being introduced in Greece while an earlier nighttime curfew is coming into force in France on Saturday, impacting 6 million people. 02/01/2021
Now playing Next World News EU's COVID-19 vaccine rollout suffering shortages and delays The shortage is being partly blamed on the fact that the European Medicines Agency is yet to approve the Moderna and Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccines. 01/01/2021
Now playing Next The Cube COVID vaccines: Hesitancy, conspiracy theories and misinformation In this special edition of The Cube we dive into the difference between legitimate vaccine hesitancy and the anti-vaccine movement. 01/01/2021
Now playing Next Denmark Queen Margrethe of Denmark vaccinated against coronavirus The Danish court announced the monarch had received the first injection of the Pfizer/BioTech coronavirus vaccine. 01/01/2021
Now playing Next State Of The Union Europe's week: Out with the old, in with the new The coronavirus pandemic look like it will dominate 2021 from the outset, but a new American President and German Chancellor could also shape the world for year's to come. 01/01/2021
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