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Hello and welcome to our live coronavirus coverage with me, Helen Sullivan.
I will present you with the latest pandemic news, good and bad, from all over the world for the next few hours.
You can contact me on Twitter @helenrsullivan or by email: [email protected]: All news, comments, questions are welcome.
Two mass vaccination sites opened in New York City on Sunday.
The mass sites were open part of the day on Sunday before starting to operate 24 hours a day, Monday seven days a week, as part of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s push to establish 250 vaccination sites to achieve the ambitious goal of inoculating 1 million New Yorkers by the end of the month.
Three other smaller sites also opened on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the total number of global coronavirus cases has reached another sad milestone and is approaching 100 million, with a total of 90 million on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The death toll is 1,932,266.
Here are the other key recent developments:
- U.S. House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid-19 during the Siege of the CapitolA violent mafia loyal to Donald Trump. The Capitol’s attending physician on Sunday notified all lawmakers of exposure to the virus and urged them to get tested for it.
- A new variant of coronavirus has been detected in four travelers from the Brazilian state of the Amazon, Japan’s health ministry has said, in the latest recorded case of the evolution of the virus.
- Seven people in Marseille, in the south of France, have tested positive for the new most infectious variant of Covid-19 found for the first time in Britain, have been announced by local authorities.
- Russia has detected its first case of the most infectious variant of the coronavirus found in England, in a Russian who returned from Britain and tested positive late last month.
- The Northern Ireland Health Minister said Covid-19 was putting pressure on the healthcare system “Like never before,” as a hospital made a call on social media for immediate help from all nearby out-of-service health workers.
- One in five people in England may have had coronavirus, a new modeling suggests, equivalent to 12.4 million people, that it increases to almost one in two in some areas.