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BBC OS: 2020/11/09 16:06 GMT: New COVID-19 vaccine offers 90% protection

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New COVID-19 vaccine offers 90% protection

2020/11/09 16:06 GMT

2020/11/09 16:06 GMT: New COVID-19 vaccine offers 90% protection

BBC World Service - BBC OS, New COVID-19 vaccine offers 90% protection

Drug developers Pfizer and BioNTech describe new vaccine as a great day for humanity

Drug developers Pfizer and BioNTech describe new vaccine as a great day for humanity.

The first effective coronavirus vaccine has been shown to protect ninety percent of people from infection - in what the developers say is a great moment for science and humanity. Our BBC health correspondent talks us through the trials and efficacy of it.

Also, Nuala McGovern is live in Las Vegas speaking to Republican and Democrat supporters getting reaction to Joe Biden's presidential election win.  How do they see the future? 

And we have reaction from Jamaicans and Indians to Kamala Harris becoming the first female, first black and first South Asian vice president.

(Picture of person being injected with a vaccine. Credit: Getty)

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