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Live Updates: UK Registers 57,725 New COVID-19 Cases Over Past 24 Hours

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The global death toll from the coronavirus infection topped 1.82 million, while the global tally is around 84 million cases, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Currently, the worst-hit country is the US, with over 20 million infected and a death toll of over 347,000. It is followed by  India (10.2 million cases, 148,000 deceased), and Brazil (7.7 million cases, over 195,000 dead).

The pandemic also delivered a major blow in the UK, as multiple nations have suspended flights from Great Britain since a new strain of coronavirus was discovered in England.

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20:14 GMT 02.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - About 30,000 workers of the Dutch Network for Emergency Care (LNAZ) will be the first ones in the Netherlands to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus, the country's Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport said on Saturday.

"The National Network for Emergency Care (LNAZ) will soon unveil an action plan to vaccinate nurses and physicians in intensive care, emergency, and COVID-19 wards. Approximately 30,000 emergency care workers will be offered the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine," the ministry said in a statement.

The first phase of mass vaccination in the Netherlands is expected to start on January 8. Medical workers and nursing home carers will be among the first ones to receive the vaccine.

18:58 GMT 02.01.2021
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BUENOS AIRES (Sputnik) - Only 1 percent of Argentinian citizens, who received Russia-developed Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus, has shown a mild adverse reaction to the shot, the TN broadcaster reported on Saturday, citing the country's Health Ministry.

According to the media outlet, 317 patients reported fever and headaches of the total 32,013.

Argentina started its mass vaccination campaign with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine on Tuesday. Earlier in December, it received the first batch of 300,000 doses of the jab. Health workers are the first to get shots of the vaccine.

The Sputnik V was the first COVID-19 vaccine registered in Russia and the world. Russia's Sputnik V is 92 percent effective, based on data from the first 16,000 trial participants who have received both shots of the two-dose vaccine.

17:53 GMT 02.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) is ready to begin clinical trials of the combined vaccine of Gamaleya Center and AstraZeneca in Ukraine, RDIF CEO Kirill Dmitriev said on Saturday.

"Of course, we are ready to hand over our technologies for production in Ukraine. We are also ready to even begin technical trials of the joint AstraZeneca and Sputnik vaccine in Ukraine. We are ready to cooperate with Ukraine in every possible way because we believe that vaccines are not part of politics," Dmitriev said on air the Russia-1 broadcaster.

16:23 GMT 02.01.2021

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) - Biomedical researchers in India became the first to successfully isolate the UK strain of the coronavirus, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said Saturday.

"The UK-variant of the virus, with all the signature changes, is now successfully isolated and cultured at the National Institute of Virology (NIV) from the clinical specimen from UK-returnees," the ICMR said on Twitter, adding that no other country has reported the achievement.

The council added that its scientists used the Vero cell lineage as hosts to isolate the virus. The culture will help researchers study the new variant more closely.

The UK variant of the coronavirus was first detected in Kent, England in September. In November, authorities announced that the mutations increased ease of transmission and may be driving the new wave of infections.

The announcement spurred many countries to suspend air travel with the UK while some countries later began detecting that the strain was already within their borders.

16:03 GMT 02.01.2021
15:44 GMT 02.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom registered another record increase in COVID-19 cases with 57,725 new infections in 24 hours.

This takes the total number of registered cases in the country to just under 2.6 million, according to government figures.

At the same time, an additional 445 fatalities put the overall death toll at 74,570.

UK’s health authorities do not keep a tally of recoveries, which leaves the number of active cases in the country unknown.

The UK may have been the origin of a new strain of the coronavirus which is believed to be 70 percent more infectious than its predecessor and may be driving the new wave of transmissions.

Much of the UK is under the strictest level of lockdown with the holiday season effectively canceled this year.

15:40 GMT 02.01.2021
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14:21 GMT 02.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - More than 800,000 people in Russia have already been inoculated against COVID-19 while some 1.5 million doses have been distributed across Russia, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said Saturday.

"More than 1.5 million doses of vaccine have already been delivered to the regions of the Russian Federation, and vaccination is actively underway ... more than 800,000 people have received the vaccine," Murashko told reporters.

The vaccination program in Russia kicked off in early December, initially for medical workers and priority groups but has since expanded its availability to most sections of the population.

13:19 GMT 02.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Finnish Medicines Agency has received the first report of an adverse reaction to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against coronavirus a week after Europe started its mass immunisation campaign, the Finnish broadcaster YLE reported on Saturday.

"When there are at least five such reports, we will put information on our website about the type of reactions that have occurred," the agency's Chief Physician Maija Kaukonen told the broadcaster, adding that no further details could be disclosed due to patient confidentiality.

At the same time, Kaukonen noted that reports of allergic or adverse reactions were likely to increase.

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08:30 GMT 02.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's coronavirus tally has increased by 26,301 cases recorded over the past 24 hours, the government's coronavirus response centre said in an update on Saturday.

"Over the past day, 26,301 coronavirus cases were confirmed across 84 Russian regions, including 3,889 cases (14.8 percent) without clinical symptoms", the centre said.

07:49 GMT 02.01.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom will increase the procurement of the coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, pharmaceutical company, to 2 million doses per week by mid-month, The Times reported on Saturday, citing sources.

The newspaper cited a key member of the Oxford-AstraZeneca team as saying that 1 million doses would be supplied instead, and the supply regimen would ultimately reach 2 million doses weekly by the third week of January.

Another source reportedly said that the supply chain was fragile, warning that the loss of even one batch would affect the vaccination campaign.

According to the report, the company is disappointed by the production pace of their vaccine for the UK market, which is carried out by several contractors in the Oxfordshire and Staffordshire provinces, as well as at a company in the Netherlands.

06:43 GMT 02.01.2021
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04:56 GMT 02.01.2021

NEW DELHI (Sputnik) – India has confirmed 19,078 new cases of the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, with the total number of those infected having reached 10,305,788, the country's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Saturday.

The death toll from the disease has reached 149,218 people, with 224 new fatalities being recorded over the past day. More than 9.9 million people have recovered in India since the start of the outbreak.

04:51 GMT 02.01.2021

On Saturday, India will conduct a dry run ahead of the actual vaccination drive against coronavirus.

04:46 GMT 02.01.2021

India-UK air travel will resume from 8 January in a restricted manner, said India’s aviation minister Hardeep Puri.

04:41 GMT 02.01.2021
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