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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-ZW link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=1082 valign=top style='width:811.8pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Zimbabwe COVID19 Update<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;line-height:33.75pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.5pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#0F1419'>COVID-19 update: As at 29 December 2020, Zimbabwe had 13 325 confirmed cases, including 11 067 recoveries and 359 deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 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</o:p></span></h1><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;letter-spacing:.35pt'>Britain has reported 41,385 new COVID-19 cases, a new daily record, as a rapidly spreading variant of the coronavirus increases infection rates and the holiday weekend impacted the reporting of some new cases.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><p style='margin-bottom:24.0pt;line-height:22.8pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.35pt'>There were 357 new deaths within 28 days of a positive test, the government’s coronavirus statistics portal said.<strong><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>– SOURCE – <a href="http://aljazeera.com/news"><span style='color:windowtext'>aljazeer</span><span style='color:windowtext'>a</span><span style='color:windowtext'>.</span><span style='color:windowtext'>co</span><span style='color:windowtext'>m</span><span style='color:windowtext'>/</span><span style='color:windowtext'>new</span><span style='color:windowtext'>s</span></a></span></i></strong><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style='margin-top:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Manitoba reports fewer than 200 new coronavirus cases, 5 deaths</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></b></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l6 level1 lfo12;background:white'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;letter-spacing:.4pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Manitoba reported fewer than 200 new cases of novel coronavirus for the second-straight day Tuesday, while health officials said another five people have died.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>At the province’s only live COVID-19 media briefing planned for the week, Dr. Jazz Atwal, Manitoba’s acting deputy chief provincial public health officer said 133 new infections of the virus had been identified across the province as of Tuesday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>The latest cases come after Manitoba reported its lowest daily case count in several weeks — 107 new infections — Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>While Atwal acknowledged the drop in daily cases is encouraging, he said hospitalization rates remain too high in Manitoba.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'> “We are headed in a good direction, but we still have a long way to go,” he said, pointing out that testing numbers have also dropped over the holidays.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Provincial data shows 1,371 people were tested for COVID-19 Monday and the current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate was 12.4 per cent provincially and 12.1 per cent in Winnipeg as of Tuesday morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'> “One-hundred and thirty-three cases and five deaths does not mean we can be careless with our actions,” Atwal said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>“It means that our hard work is starting to pay off. It means limiting our contacts and working from home is making a difference — it means we need to keep doing what we are doing.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'> “Don’t celebrations bring risk or harm to anyone else,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>“Let’s start the New Year off with continued lower numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Manitoba has been under strict public health orders since mid-November, which include a ban on most social gatherings in private homes and a shutdown of non-essential stores. The current restrictions are set to expire Jan. 8.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Atwal said it is too soon to say whether or not restrictions will be loosened.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>The new infections reported Tuesday include 97 cases in the Winnipeg Health region, 22 cases in the Southern Health region, five cases in the Prairie Mountain Health region, three cases in the Northern Health region, and six cases in the Interlake-Eastern Health region.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Since March the Manitoba has recorded 24,385 lab-confirmed cases of the virus and 4,424 remain active as of Tuesday, the province says.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Provincial data provided Tuesday shows there are 246 people in hospital with active cases of COVID-19, as well as 92 people in hospital with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require care, for a total of 338 hospitalizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>There are 32 people in intensive care units with active COVID-19 as well as four people with COVID-19 who are no longer infectious but continue to require critical care for a total of 36 ICU patients, the province said Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Tuesday’s media briefing is the first held since Dec. 23. The press conferences, normally held Monday, Wednesday and Friday, have been rescheduled over the holidays and updates on the latest cases and deaths from the coronavirus have come only through online updates.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>The province says online updates on COVID-19 will be provided Wednesday and Thursday, and no updates will be given Jan. 1, 2021. An online update Jan. 2 will include numbers from the previous day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:20.25pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.4pt'>Health officials are scheduled to hold their regular Monday, Wednesday and Friday press conferences again starting Jan. 4.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>California renews curbs, first case of UK strain in US: </span></b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></i></h1><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>California has extended a strict ‘stay-at-home’ order indefinitely amid a relentless surge in coronavirus cases that is putting pressure on its hospitals ability to treat people with the infection.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The US has also reported its first incidence of the new coronavirus variant that was first identified in the United Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Australian state of New South Wales, has traced a second cluster of cases in Sydney – this time in one of its inner west surburbs – which has prompted the state government to further tighten rules on gatherings and movement to avoid any ‘super spreader’ events.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Globally, more than 81.9 million people have been diagnosed with the virus and 1,787,283</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Here are the latest updates:<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>China Sinopharm vaccine found to be 79 percent effective<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Chinese pharmaceutical giant Sinopharm says Phase III trials of its experimental vaccine have found the shot to be 79 percent effective against COVID-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Sinopharm CNBG Beijing’s inactivated coronavirus vaccine exhibits safety after vaccination… the protective effect of the vaccine against Covid-19 is 79.34%,” the Beijing Institute of Biological Products – a Sinopharm subsidiary – said in a statement.<br><br></span><span lang=EN style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US reports first case of more infectious variant<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The US has found its first case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom and is thought to be more transmissible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The case involves a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver in Colorado, according to state health officials.<br><br><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>South Korea tries to contain outbreak inside prison<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>South Korea is working to contain a coronavirus outbreak at a prison in Seoul.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The jail in the southeast of the capital has confirmed cases in 771 inmates and 21 staff, bringing the total number of infections linked to the facility to 792, the justice ministry told Reuters news agency. There has been one death so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Justice Minister has ordered inmates diagnosed with the disease to be separated and a programme granting parole to ‘exemplary prisoners’ be extended, the ministry said in a statement.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Singapore starts vaccinations; first in Asia<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Singapore has become the first country in Asia to begin inoculations with the Pfizer vaccine against COVID.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Sarah Lim, a senior staff nurse at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, was the first in the city-state to get the vaccination. More than 30 staff at the centre will get their shots on Wednesday, with the second dose scheduled for January 20.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“I feel very grateful and thankful for being the first to be vaccinated in Singapore,” said Lim, who helps screen suspected COVID-19 cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Singapore has one of the world’s lowest fatality rates from the coronavirus anywhere in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>California renews ‘stay at home’ order indefinitely<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Strict stay-at-home orders have been renewed indefinitely in California, one of the worst-affected states in the US pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Officials say the extension of the restrictions imposed earlier this month on social and economic life in Southern California was necessary because data showed intensive care units were filled or close to capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The rules are also being extended in the San Joaquin Valley, the state’s agricultural heartland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>South Korea mulls tougher curbs with daily cases above 1,000<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>South Korea is considering imposing the country’s toughest coronavirus measures with new cases remaining above 1,000 for a second straight day.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The country reported 1,050 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, most of them locally transmitted, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Authorities must decide before January 3 whether to raise the current social distancing measures to Level 3, the highest tier.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Sydney tightens restrictions after second cluster identified<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Authorities in Australia have moved to tighten curbs on gatherings in Sydney to avoid the risk of a coronavirus “super spreader” event during the city’s famed New Year’s Eve celebrations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Household gatherings have been limited to just five people while the maximum number of people allowed to gather in public has been capped at 30.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We don’t want New Year’s Eve to be the cause of a super-spreader,” New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said as she announced the restrictions would take effect from midnight on Wednesday “until further notice”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Berejiklian reported 18 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the biggest daily increase in a week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said a new cluster in the city’s inner west, which includes six members of an extended family living in three different households, is expected to increase because the people involved had taken part in Christmas events.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>France could impose an earlier curfew in certain regions: Minister<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>French Health Minister Olivier Veran said government could soon impose an earlier curfew that would start at 6pm instead of 8pm in eastern areas due to the spread of the coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Speaking on France 2 public TV channel, Veran added there were currently no plans to impose a third lockdown, despite the daily new COVID-19 case count being more than twice as high as the government’s target of less than 5,000.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Algeria’s Tebboune returns after COVID-19 treatment: State media<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has returned after weeks away being treated for COVID-19 in Germany, state television reported on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Tebboune’s absence since the end of October has fuelled speculation over his ability to finish his first term.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Less than half of French want COVID-19 vaccine: Poll<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Just four in 10 people in France want to have a vaccination against Covid-19, a poll showed Tuesday, as concern also grows over the slow start to the country’s immunisation campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>According to the poll by Ipsos Global Advisor in partnership with the World Economic Forum, just 40 percent of French want to take the vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>This puts it behind even other laggards like Russia on 43 percent and South Africa on 53 percent, let alone those countries where eagerness to take the vaccine is high such as China on 80 percent and Britain on 77 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:0cm;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Ireland reports 1,546 new COVID-19 cases, highest daily rise<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Ireland reported the highest COVID-19 new cases in a single day on Tuesday, with 1,546 infections, up from a previous record of 1,296 on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The government is to meet on Wednesday to consider additional restrictions to try to control a surge that began after measures were eased in early December when Ireland had the lowest infection rate in the European Union.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US’ COVID-19 test requirement for UK travellers should extend to other nations: Official<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>A senior US public health official on Tuesday said the coronavirus testing the United States now is requiring for travellers from Britain should probably be extended to other countries as well.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“I think that probably should be extended to other countries,” US Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir told MSNBC.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Australia threatens to deport tourist revellers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Tourists who joined a mass gathering against COVID-19 rules at a Sydney beach on Christmas Day could be deported, Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Migration authorities were investigating the hundreds of young people who crowded on Bronte Beach despite health limitations and would crack down on those deemed responsible, Hawke told radio station 2GB.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hawke said he was “shocked” at the beach crowd in Sydney’s east breaching social distancing rules, most of them reported to be foreign backpackers and working visa holders from the UK and Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Under the Migration Act, if somebody is threatening public safety or health, their visa can be cancelled and revoked,” Hawke said.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Kamala Harris receives coronavirus vaccine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Vice president-elect Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff on Tuesday received their first dose of the vaccine against Covid-19.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“I want to encourage everyone to get the vaccine,” Harris, 56, said after receiving her injection. “Literally, this is about saving lives. I trust the science, and it is the scientists who created and approved this vaccine.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The vaccine, created by the company Moderna, was administered at the United Medical Center in Washington.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Belarus, Argentina start vaccination campaigns with Russian-developed Sputnik V<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Belarus and Argentina launched mass coronavirus vaccinations with the Russian-developed Sputnik V shot on Tuesday, becoming the first countries outside Russia to roll out the vaccine, which is still undergoing late-stage studies to ensure its safety and effectiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The first batch of Sputnik V arrived in the former Soviet republic of Belarus on Tuesday, according to a joint statement by the Belarusian Health Ministry, the Russian Health Ministry and the Russian Direct Investment Fund that bankrolled development of the jab.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Teachers, those with complicating medical conditions and people over 60 were to be next in line in Argentina, which so far has received 300,000 doses, which also will be free and voluntary.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Irish to consider additional COVID-19 measures: Health Minister<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Irish government will hold an unscheduled meeting on Wednesday to decide whether additional measures are required to control the “exponential growth” of COVID-19 in the country, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We will look right across the spectrum… and see in light of the rising cases and the rise in hospitalisations what the appropriate thing to do is,” Donnelly told RTE radio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The government has closed all bars and restaurants and will ban all household visits from January 1, but non-essential retail and schools remain open.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>UK government says emergency COVID hospitals not dismantled<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Emergency hospitals set up at the start of the coronavirus pandemic are still available to support Britain’s state-run national health service as it tackles a new wave of patients, Prime Minster Boris Johnson’s spokesman said on Tuesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>British media had reported that the so-called ‘Nightingale’ hospitals set up at record speed earlier in the year were quietly being dismantled.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The Nightingales are ready to support the NHS and are an important insurance policy should they be needed,” the spokesman said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Some are already being used for outpatients and for diagnostics and scans, and some are being prepared for additional use as COVID vaccination centres,” he added.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Spain to create registry for those refusing COVID-19 vaccine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Spain will create a registry to keep track of people who refuse a COVID-19 vaccination and will share the information with other European countries.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“In the registry, which we will share with our European partners because we are all committed to creating a COVID-19 registry, we will put those people who were offered the vaccine and refused to get it, just like is the case with other treatments,” Health Minister Salvador Illa told Spanish broadcaster La Sexta this week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“This is not going to be a public document and will be done with the utmost respect for data protection and Spanish legislation,” he added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Turkey aims to produce Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine domestically<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Turkey aims to produce Russia’s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V domestically, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Turkey requested more information from Russia about the vaccine and Health Minister Fahrettin Koca informed the presidential cabinet that everything was on the right track, Cavusoglu said.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand warns of stricter measures if virus not contained<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand has warned that more intensive measures might be necessary to halt its worst coronavirus outbreak yet and urged the public to cooperate to contain a spread that has seen cases in most regions of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Thailand has imposed tighter control measures in some areas, including on entertainment businesses, which will be reassessed in seven days, said COVID-19 taskforce spokesman Taweesin Wisanuyothin.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Iran launches human trials of its COVID vaccine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Iran has launched human trials of its coronavirus vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The start of the trials on Tuesday comes as Iran has managed to bring its COVID-19 fatalities down to a three-month low and as the country continues to face difficulties in importing sufficient quantities of vaccines due to US sanctions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pakistan reports coronavirus variant cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>At least three cases of the coronavirus variant were detected in the southern port city of Karachi.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:inherit;color:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word;clip:rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px);overflow:hidden' id="vjs_video_1291_component_1599_description"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> “Twelve samples of UK returnees were taken for genotyping out of which six were positive and three showed the new variant of the virus in the first phase,” the ministry said in a statement on Twitter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The genotyping showed 95 per cent match of the new variant from the UK. These samples will go through another phase of genotyping,” it added.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India finds six cases of variant as daily infections drop<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>All six patients have been kept in isolation, India’s health ministry said in a statement, adding that their fellow travellers were being tracked down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Their close contacts have also been put under quarantine,” the ministry said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India has suspended all flights from the UK until the end of the month but some 33,000 passengers had flown in from late November, before the ban, the ministry said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dozens of teachers die from the virus in South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Local media, quoting education ministry spokesman Elijah Mhlanga, reported that at least 32 teachers have died of the virus in less than a week.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:inherit;color:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word;clip:rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px);overflow:hidden' id="vjs_video_1752_component_2060_description"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>South Africa has recorded the highest number of coronavirus infections on the continent, with 1,004,413 cases and nearly 27,000 deaths.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white;box-sizing: border-box;margin:0.5rem 0px 30px;overflow-wrap: break-word'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It announced tighter restrictions once again to combat the increase in coronavirus infections driven by a faster-spreading new variant.<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='background:white'><b><span 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