Coronavirus live news: India records three-month daily case high; EU regulator backs Oxford jab

Philippines Covid variant found in UK; France investigates possible new variant in Brittany; vaccinating pregnant women could protect babies, says Israel studyAstraZeneca jab: EU regulator ‘firmly convinced’ benefits outweigh risksChaos in Germany and Italy after suspension of Oxford vaccineFrance seeks swift safety verdict on AstraZeneca vaccineSurvey says 64% of young black people in England are ‘vaccine hesitant’See all our coronavirus coverage 5.47am GMT Former US president Donald Trump has again urged people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, saying he would recommend vaccination to “a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and a lot of those people voted for me.”In an interview on Tuesday night on Fox News, Trump acknowledged that people were free to decide for themselves whether they would be vaccinated against Covid-19. Related: Ex-Covid tsar urges Donald Trump to tackle Republican vaccine hesitancy 5.24am GMT The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 13,435 to 2,594,764, data from the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases showed on Wednesday. The reported death toll rose by 249 to 73,905, the tally showed. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/mar/17/coronavirus-live-news-no-indication-oxford-vaccine-is-linked-to-blood-clots-says-eu-regulator #coronavirus #vaccines_and_immunisation #health #science #world_news