G20 Leaders Pledge Fair Vaccine Distribution; Trump Slams Paris Accord: World Brief
Published Date: 11/23/2020
Source: Bloomberg Quicktake: Now
Leaders of the Group of 20, the world’s richest countries, promised to ensure equality in the race to vaccinate people against the coronavirus, even as President Donald Trump stayed quiet on sharing U.S.-made vaccines with other nations. The leaders also urged countries not to lose sight of climate goals in the pandemic, endorsing the aims of the Paris agreement, while Trump used his address to the session to again slam the deal. MORE: https://bloom.bg/3kWHgij A Covid-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc prevented a majority of people from getting the disease in a large trial, another promising development in the quest to end the pandemic. The vaccine stopped an average of 70% of participants from falling ill, an early analysis of the data show. That’s below the high bar set by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., but effectiveness rose to 90% for one of two dosing regimes, using half a dose followed by a full one later. MORE: https://bloom.bg/337f7z0 President Donald Trump is facing rising pressure from prominent Republicans to begin a transition to President-Elect Joe Biden -- or even concede defeat -- as Trump’s long-shot legal challenges failed to gain traction. MORE: https://bloom.bg/392GwWK Prominent Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong was taken into custody on Monday after he pled guilty to inciting and organizing an unauthorized assembly for his part in a dramatic siege of police headquarters last year during the city’s mass protests. MORE: https://bloom.bg/2HpwLX4 Africa’s largest economy has slumped into a recession in the third quarter as oil production dropped to a four-year low. Nigeria’s gross domestic product shrank 3.6% in the three months through September from a year earlier, compared with a 6.1% contraction in the previous quarter, Statistician-General Yemi Kale said Saturday in a report released on Twitter. MORE: https://bloom.bg/2IWCvYR Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2TwO8Gm Bloomberg Quicktake brings you live global news and original shows spanning business, technology, politics and culture. Make sense of the stories changing your business and your world. To watch complete coverage on Bloomberg Quicktake 24/7, visit http://www.bloomberg.com/qt/live, or watch on Apple TV, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Fire TV and Android TV on the Bloomberg app. Connect with us on… YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bloomberg Breaking News on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloombergQuickTakeNews Twitter: https://twitter.com/quicktake Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quicktake Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quicktake