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Hello and welcome to our live coronavirus coverage with me, Helen Sullivan.
I bring you the next few hours the latest good and bad pandemic developments around the world.
You can contact me on Twitter @helenrsullivan or via email: [email protected] – news, comments, questions are all welcome.
Two massive vaccination rooms opened in New York City on Sunday.
The masses were open Sunday for part of the day before starting 24 hours a day, Monday seven days a week as part of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to set up 250 vaccination rooms to achieve the ambitious goal of te ent. 1 million New Yorkers by the end of the month.
Three other smaller sites were also opened on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the global coronavirus total has once again reached a dismal milestone closer to a staggering 100 meters, with the total passing of 90 million on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The death toll stands at 1,932,266.
Here are the other important recent developments:
- U.S. lawmakers may have been exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid-19 during the Capitol victoryby a violent mob loyal to Donald Trump. The Capitol’s treating physician notified all lawmakers Sunday of the exposure to viruses and requested them to be tested.
- A new coronavirus variant of coronavirus has been detected in four travelers from the Amazon state of Brazil, The Japanese Ministry of Health said the virus had been recorded in the latest case.
- Seven people in Marseilles, southern France, tested positive for the new, more contagious variant of Covid-19 first found in Britain., announced local authorities.
- Russia has detected its first case of the more contagious coronavirus variant found in England, in a Russian who returned from Britain and tested positive late last month.
- Northern Ireland’s health minister says Covid-19 puts pressure on health care system “Like never before”, as one hospital on social media called for the immediate help of all health workers in the area.
- One in five people in England may have had coronavirus, new modeling proposes, equivalent to 12.4 million people, and will rise to almost one in two in some areas.