Coronavirus live news: EU may not renew AstraZeneca contract; New Delhi to impose six day lockdown

Commissioner says AstraZeneca only delivered 30m doses of 120m ordered; New Delhi’s Chief Minister says city’s healthcare system is at breaking pointFauci: Republican vaccine deniers are hurting efforts to lift restrictionsGlobal death toll passes 3m as pandemic ‘grows at an alarming rate’See all our coronavirus coverage 10.57am BST India is set to accept the Serum Institute of India’s (SII) request for a grant of 30 billion rupees ($400 million) to boost its capacity to make the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, a government source with knowledge of the matter has told Reuters.SII, the world’s biggest vaccine maker, had sought the funds to increase its monthly capacity to more than 100 million doses by the end of May, from up to 70 million currently. 10.39am BST Over 1.4 million long-term care residents and employees contracted Covid-19 in the US, and more than 181,000 deaths occurred as a result, according to data compiled by the Kaiser Family Foundation. An analysis by the Associated Press estimated another 40,000 excess deaths occurred in these facilities between March 2020 and November 2020 that were not from Covid-19.Charles Sloan, a certified nursing assistant at a nursing home in Detroit, Michigan, for 10 years, characterized the pandemic’s impact on nursing homes as a “storm”. Related: US workers who risked their lives to care for elderly demand change Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/apr/19/coronavirus-live-news-uk-study-to-expose-young-people-to-virus-for-second-time-india-cases-top-15m #world_news #coronavirus