 | | | | Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said the travel subsidy programme dubbed "Go To Travel" would be suspended nationwide around the New Year to contain mounting COVID-19 cases, as his approval rating plummets over the handling of the pandemic. | | |
| | | Poland faces a real threat of a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Health Minister Adam Niedzielski said on Monday, adding he would recommend that current restrictions continue until at least Jan. 17. | | |
| | | London is likely to be placed into the toughest tier of COVID-19 restrictions following a sharp rise in coronavirus infection rates, the BBC reported on Monday, as one of the world's richest cities struggles to contain the disease. | | |
| | | South Africa's pharmaceutical regulator SAHPRA said on Monday it has received its first application to register a COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson. | | |
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| | | Canada's first COVID-19 inoculations are set to begin as soon as Monday after some of the 30,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine arrived over the weekend, making Canada one of the few Western nations to start vaccinations. | | |
| | | SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore became on Monday the first Asian country to approve Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine and said it expects to start receiving shots by the end of the year. | | |
| | | Germany is unlikely to lift its coronavirus lockdown early next year, a top aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday, signalling Europe's biggest economy will have to contend with the crippling restrictions well into the winter months. | | |
| | | Germany expects to receive 11 million doses of BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine by March, the health ministry announced on Monday. | | |
| | | Coronavirus infections rose by 10,726 since Friday, data https://www.covid19.admin.ch/en/overview from Swiss health authorities showed on Monday. | | |
| | | The first shipments of COVID-19 vaccine in the United States moved to distribution points around the country, while the EU weighed donating 5% of its COVID-19 vaccines to poorer nations. | | |
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