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LONDON (Reuters) – London declared a major incident on Friday because its hospitals were at risk of being overwhelmed by a highly transmissible variant of the coronavirus racing \u201cout of control\u201d across the United Kingdom.<\/p>

FILE PHOTO: Vials labelled “COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine” are placed on dry ice in this illustration taken, December 5, 2020. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic\/Illustration\/File Photo<\/figcaption>

Britain has the world\u2019s fifth worst official death toll from COVID-19 at over 78,000, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shuttered the economy and rushed out vaccines faster than its neighbours in a bid to stem the pandemic.<\/p>\n

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, from the opposition Labour Party, said hospital beds in the capital would run out within the next few weeks because the spread of the virus was \u201cout of control\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are declaring a major incident because the threat this virus poses to our city is at crisis point.\u201d<\/p>\n

London, which vies with Paris for the status of Europe\u2019s richest city, has a population of over 9 million.<\/p>\n

The designation of \u201cmajor incident\u201d is usually reserved for attacks or grave accidents, notably those likely to involve \u201cserious harm, damage, disruption or risk to human life or welfare, essential services, the environment or national security\u201d.<\/p>\n

London\u2019s last \u201cmajor incident\u201d was the Grenfell Tower fire in a high-rise residential block in 2017, when 72 people died.<\/p>\n

VACCINE FEARS<\/h2>\n

Khan said there were parts of London where 1 in 20 people had the virus. The pressure on the ambulance service, which was now dealing with up to 9,000 emergency calls a day, meant firefighters were being drafted in to drive vehicles, and police officers would follow.<\/p>\n

The Office for National Statistics estimated that 1.1 million people in England had the coronavirus in the week to Jan. 2, the equivalent of one person in 50.<\/p>\n

Britain, the first country to approve vaccines made by Pfizer\/BioNTech and AstraZeneca, on Friday approved Moderna\u2019s shot, hoping to begin administering it this spring. It also agreed to purchase an additional 10 million doses.<\/p>\n

However, transport minister Grant Shapps said there were fears that some vaccines might not work properly against a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very big concern for the scientists,\u201d he told LBC radio.<\/p>\n

A laboratory study by the U.S. drugmaker Pfizer, not yet peer-reviewed, indicated that the vaccine it is making, developed by Germany\u2019s BioNTech, does work against one key mutation in the new variants found in Britain and South Africa.<\/p>\n

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