JOHANNESBURG: South Africa logged its millionth case of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) on Monday as the pandemic showed no signs of letting up. South Africa became the first African nation to log one million cases, official data showed Sunday, as authorities considered re-imposing restrictions to battle a second wave of infections driven by the new variant. Worst yet to comeKnown coronavirus infections surged past 19 million in the US on Sunday, the worst-hit country in the world, adding a million cases in less than a week. The world’s largest economy has added at least one million new cases per week since early November, according to Johns Hopkins University data. About two million Americans have been vaccinated so far, well below the 20 million the Trump administration has promised by year-end.

Source: Manila Times December 28, 2020 06:33 UTC