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World Coronavirus Dispatch: Myanmar health workers protest coup, stop work

UK's Covid hero dies at 100, study says Sinopharm jab works against South African strain, Europe's sluggish vaccination may prolong economic slump and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Aung San Suu Kyi
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Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi

Akash Podishetty Hyderabad
Europe's sluggish vaccination sparks concerns of prolonged economic slump

The Euro Zone's economic output fell in the fourth quarter, according to the official estimates put out by the statistics agency. Experts fear the contraction may last at least three more months into 2021 and perhaps into the early part of the next quarter, as governments double down on restrictions, thanks to the slow vaccination process. Previously, Oxford and other economists had forecast stagnation for the first quarter of 2021, on the assumption that the vaccinations would flatten the coronavirus curve and people would return to work, due to which economies