Covid-19 live updates: Goodbye B.1.1.7, hello ‘Alpha’ — WHO creates new naming system for virus variants

Deaths fell by 95 percent in Serrana, a town in the covid-ravaged Sao Paulo state, in the five weeks after most of its adult residents were given Sinovac shots, per a study by Butantan Institute. Meanwhile symptomatic infections in the town, which has a population of about 45,000, dropped by 80 percent and hospitalizations decreased by 86 percent.

Source: WP