Pandemic politics - how pursuit of a vaccine rivals the space race

No, Russia is not having a Sputnik moment.The announcement by Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country is the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine did not provoke the awe and wonder of the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite into orbit in 1957.

Two million infected worldwide but virus has 'certainly not peaked'

Nearly two million people globally have been infected and more than 119,200 have died, but the coronavirus pandemic has “certainly” not yet peaked, the World Health Organisation says.