Pfiz­er Inc (PFE.N) has sued a long-time em­ploy­ee for al­leged­ly steal­ing "scores" of con­fi­den­tial doc­u­ments, in­clud­ing some re­lat­ed to its COVID-19 vac­cine, as she pre­pared to jump to a com­peti­tor.

WHO chief says many vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple wrong­ly think they no longer need to take oth­er pre­cau­tions against COVID.

One Hin­du Pun­dit has is­sued a call to the Prime Min­is­ter and the Gov­ern­ment to make vac­ci­na­tion against COVID-19 manda­to­ry.

THE HAGUE, Nether­lands (AP) — The Eu­ro­pean Union’s drug reg­u­la­tor on Thurs­day au­tho­rized Pfiz­er’s coro­n­avirus vac­cine for use on chil­dren from 5 to 11 years old, clear­ing the way for shots to be ad­min­is­tered to mil­lions of el­e­men­tary school pupils amid a new wave of in­fec­tions sweep­ing across the con­ti­nent.

It de­pends. It can be safe if you’re ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed against COVID-19, but of­fi­cials say peo­ple who haven’t got­ten the shots should de­lay trav­el.

WASH­ING­TON (AP) — Pres­i­dent Joe Biden will re­quire es­sen­tial, non­res­i­dent trav­el­ers cross­ing U.S. land bor­ders, such as truck dri­vers, gov­ern­ment and emer­gency re­sponse of­fi­cials, to be ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed be­gin­ning on Jan. 22, the ad­min­is­tra­tion planned to an­nounce.

MOSCOW (AP) — Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin said Wednes­day he has tak­en an ex­per­i­men­tal nasal vac­cine against the coro­n­avirus, three days af­ter he re­ceived his boost­er shot.

Over the last three months, 14 ba­bies un­der one-year-old con­tract­ed COVID-19, 11 of whom were younger than three months old. The star­tling rev­e­la­tion came from the Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh dur­ing Wednes­day's vir­tu­al press con­fer­ence.

DAL­LAS (AP) — De­ter­mined to re­claim Thanks­giv­ing tra­di­tions that were put on pause last year by the pan­dem­ic, mil­lions of Amer­i­cans will be load­ing up their cars or pil­ing on­to planes to gath­er again with friends and fam­i­ly.

The Cou­va Point Lisas Cham­ber of Com­merce (CPLCC) is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to ex­pand the num­ber of safe zones as part of its strat­e­gy to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

The Bar­keep­ers' and Own­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion of T&T (BOATT) is call­ing for more busi­ness­es to be in­clud­ed as "Safe Zones", which can on­ly be ac­cessed by ful­ly vac­ci­nat­ed peo­ple. It asks that all nonessen­tial re­tail busi­ness­es and the en­ter­tain­ment sec­tor be brought un­der the ini­tia­tive.

■ Anger about vac­cine man­date for health work­ers on the French Caribbean arch­i­pel­ago has led to days of vi­o­lent protests ■