WHO recommends Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

The World Health Organisation has backed the Oxford vaccine for people aged over 65 and suggests it can prevent severe disease against the South African variant. Also: Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial continues; and we’ll hear from the president of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society who has just come back from Tigray. (Photo: A vial of the AstraZeneca vaccine is seen at a COVID-19 vaccination centre in the Odeon Luxe Cinema in Maidstone, Britain. Credit: REUTERS/Andrew Couldridge/File Photo).