The latest updates as South Korea accelerates efforts to launch a vaccination program, South Africa is reaching a million case mark.
South Korea is accelerating efforts to launch a coronavirus vaccination program announcing that it will detect the first cases of the virus strain first identified in the UK.
South Africa, meanwhile, reached the hard milestone of a million cases of coronavirus on Monday.
On Sunday, U.S. President Donald Trump submitted to the law a $ 2.3-trillion pandemic aid and spending package, renewing unemployment benefits for millions of Americans and preventing the closure of a federal government.
Globally, more than 80.4 million people are infected with the coronavirus, and 1.7 million have died.
Here are the latest updates:
China will imprison a citizen journalist for four years over a Wuhan virus report
Zhang Zhan, 37, was the first of its kind to be tried, among a handful of people who had direct accounts from crowded hospitals and empty streets painting a more direct picture of the main pandemic heart than the official statement.
He was sentenced for “quarrying and causing trouble,” her lawyer said.
“We may appeal,” lawyer Ren Quanniu told Reuters.
Saudi Arabia will extend an entry ban
Saudi Arabia has extended a ban on entering the kingdom for another week amid fears of the new coronavirus mutation.
The government said it was assessing the current situation by allowing non-citizens to leave the country and allowing entry for individual cases.
Thailand is testing 144 new diseases
Thailand’s new cases include 129 local infections and 15 arrivals from abroad, the public health ministry said in a statement.
The country has confirmed 6,285 cases of coronavirus and 60 deaths since their first case at the end of January.
Seniors of Mexico would receive coronavirus vaccines in January
Mexico plans to end the first dose of COVID-19 vaccines to health care workers in early January, before moving to protect the elderly in the second half of the month, the President said. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
South Korea to accelerate virus vaccination efforts
South Korean officials are voting on efforts to launch a public vaccination program as the new variant was discovered in three people who entered South Korea from London, UK, on Dec. 22, the Control and Control Agency said. Korea Disease Prevention (KDCA).
The KDCA reported 808 new cases as of midnight Sunday, the lowest level since 1,241 infections were recorded on Friday.
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South African affairs are exceeding the one million mark
South Africa recorded the millionth case of COVID-19, the pandemic showing no signs of uptake.
The country had 800,000 registered cases in early December.
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