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Stock markets are still pushing higher, despite growing coronavirus infections across Europe. Markets shrugged off a warning from the president of the influential Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases that there could be as many as 100,000 new infections a day in Germany if the spread of coronavirus is not curbed.
Three important bits of news on Covid vaccines/treatments:
The EU will ensure that coronavirus vaccine doses produced by AstraZeneca within the bloc stay there until the company fulfills its delivery commitments, the internal market commissioner Thierry Breton said today. By the end of the year, the EU will have 52 factories able to produce between 2 and 3 billion vaccine doses overall, he said.
