The good news from 2020: 10 sunny stories from an otherwise dark year
Published 27 Dec,2020 via FRANCE 24 - For many the year 2020 will go down as one of the darkest in living memory. But amid the tumult sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, there was the rare piece of good news to bring a bit of cheer. Here are 10 feel-good items from what has generally been seen as an annus horribilis.
1. Vaccines developed to halt Covid-19
The dawn of the coronavirus crisis that would go on to spread around the world immediately touched off a global race to find a vaccine. That unprecedented endeavour, built on international cooperation, concluded with a number of the precious serums being administered to those most vulnerable to Covid-19 in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Russia before the year was out. No vaccine in history has ever been developed so rapidly.
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