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Hello and welcome to our live coronavirus coverage with me, Helen Sullivan.
I will be bringing you the latest developments in good and bad pandemics around the world in the coming hours.
You can contact me on Twitter @helenrsullivan or via email: [email protected] – news, comments, questions, all welcome.
Two mass vaccination sites opened in New York City on Sunday.
The massive sites were open part of the day on Sunday, before starting to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week on Monday, as part of the effort by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to create 250 vaccination sites to meet the ambitious vaccination target of 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, close to an impressive 100m, with the total rising to 90m on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The death toll is 1,932,266.
Here are the other important recent developments:
- US House legislators may have been exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid-19 during the siege of the Capitoland by a violent crowd loyal to Donald Trump. The Capitol’s assistant physician notified all lawmakers on Sunday of exposure to the virus and asked to be tested.
- A new variant of the coronavirus of the coronavirus was detected in four travelers from the state of Amazonas, in Brazil, Japan’s health ministry said in the latest recorded case of virus evolution.
- Seven people in Marseille, southern France, tested positive for the new most infectious variant of Covid-19 found for the first time in Britain, announced local authorities.
- Russia has detected its first case of the most infectious coronavirus variant found in England, in a Russian who came back from Britain and tested positive last month.
- Northern Ireland’s health minister said Covid-19 was putting health care under pressure “Like never before”, as a hospital appealed on social media for the immediate help of all health professionals out of service nearby.
- One in five people in England may have had coronavirus, the new model suggests, equivalent to 12.4 million people, increasing to almost one in two in some areas.