Coronavirus live news: Putin orders start of mass vaccinations; Germany inches towards tougher lockdown
Russian president says programme should start next week; German states heading for stricter measures; Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine approved in UKBeware fake coronavirus vaccines, says InterpolRural US hospitals ravaged by surge in casesUS braces for Covid surge after Thanksgiving holidaysJohnson suffers biggest Commons revolt as MPs back tougher Covid tiersUK coronavirus updates - live 2.48pm GMT Pfizer's Portuguese unit said the pharmaceutical company would be able to distribute its Covid-19 vaccine in the country three days after the EU's medicines agency (EMA) has given it the green light.“Once approved and once we know (...) where the vaccines should be delivered, we will get the vaccines to those places in a maximum of three days,†Susana Marques, medical director at Pfizer Portugal, told RTP Television. 2.25pm GMT Celebrating Britain's swift approval of BioNtech and Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine as a benefit of Brexit is misplaced since the vaccine was itself a product of the EU that Britain has left, German health minister Jens Spahn said.Spahn told journalists that while Britain had been the first to approve the vaccine, he was optimistic that the European Medicines Agency would soon follow. The time difference was due to Britain and the US having conducted an emergency approval process, while the EU was using a regular process. He said:But a few remarks on Brexit to my British friends: BioNtech is a European development, from the EU. The fact that this EU prod
