The UK variant has been discovered in California. * The coronavirus variant originally discovered in Britain has been detected in California, a day after the first known US case was documented in Colorado. * Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said officials were investigating a case of suspected abuse of power by a family to obtain shots of Covid-19 vaccine. * The Covid-19 vaccine developed jointly by AstraZeneca and Oxford University was approved for use in El Salvador. Asia-Pacific* Pakistan will purchase 1.2 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from China's Sinopharm.

Source: News 24 December 31, 2020 09:56 UTC