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COVID-19 Live Updates: Boris Johnson Hails 15Mln Milestone in UK Vaccine Rollout

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The number of confirmed COVID-19 infections worldwide has now topped 108.5 million, while the overall death toll from the coronavirus is over 2.39 million, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The US tops the list of the most affected countries, with 27.5 million infected and 480,000 fatalities. It is followed by India (10.88 million cases, 155,000 deaths) and Brazil (9.7 million cases and a death toll of over 237,000), while Mexico has the third-highest death toll with over 172,000 and almost 2 million infected.

In the meantime, numerous countries have confirmed cases of the new coronavirus strains that originated in the UK, South Africa, and Brazil.

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16:50 GMT 14.02.2021

The Czech cabinet declared a two-week state of emergency at the request of regional authorities due to worsening COVID-19 dynamics in circumvention of parliament's opposition, the Czech Television reported on Sunday.

This past Thursday, the Czech parliament declined in a 49-48 vote the cabinet's request to extend the COVID-19 state of emergency, which was declared on October 5, 2020.

The cabinet reportedly triggered its right under the Czech law to declare a state of emergency at the request of regional authorities.

According to the report, Czech Senate President Milos Vystrcil is determined to appeal the request of regional authorities and the cabinet's decision to satisfy it.

The Czech government is expected to give a press conference on the matter later on Sunday.

16:25 GMT 14.02.2021

The first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus may arrive in Mexico late this week, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday.

"It is one of the vaccines that may start arriving at the end of this week", he told a news conference.

The Mexican government said it had reached a tentative deal with Russia for the delivery of 24 million doses of the viral vector vaccine. Mexico also contracted supplies of Pfizer, AstraZeneca and CanSino vaccines.

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Mexico has received the first batch of AstraZeneca vaccine doses against coronavirus from India on Sunday, the health authority announced.

"This Sunday, the Mexican government received the first shipment of 870,000 doses of the vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus made by the AstraZeneca pharma company", a press release read.

Mexico has contracted 2 million AstraZeneca doses from the Serum Institute of India, a major vaccine producer. A further shipment of almost 1.2 million doses will arrive in March.

The Central American country also expects to receive 12 million doses of Sputnik V doses from Russia and 10 million Sinovac doses from China between February and May.

Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard told a news conference on Sunday that Pfizer shot deliveries would resume next week, with 494,000 doses coming on Tuesday. The deliveries will be scaled up weekly.

14:42 GMT 14.02.2021

"No one is resting on their laurels... We've still got a long way to go and there will undoubtedly be bumps in the road, but after all we've achieved I know we can go forward with great confidence", Johnson said.

13:51 GMT 14.02.2021

BELGRADE (Sputnik) - North Macedonia is on the way to start its mass vaccination campaign, after receiving on Sunday the first batch of Pfizer vaccines from Serbia.

"The shortage of vaccines in the world, their insufficient quantity have become the reason that we still do not have vaccines. We are happy that the Serbian people have enough of this vaccine so that president Vucic, the entire Serbian leadership and, above all, the Serbian people can share this vaccine with the Macedonian people," Zaev said at the meeting.

Serbian President Alexander Vucic handed over the vaccines to North Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev during a meeting at the Tabanovtsi border crossing between the countries, as broadcast on Zaev's Facebook. The first batch included 4,680 out of 8,000 doses Belgrade is set to donate to Skopje.

13:38 GMT 14.02.2021
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TOKYO (Sputnik) - Japan has formally greenlighted the first coronavirus vaccine — the one developed by the US' Pfizer and Germany's BioNTech — for domestic use, the Kyodo news agency reported on Sunday.

Japan received 400,000 doses of Pfizer's vaccine on Friday, and the government's health panel approved it. The two-dose vaccine will be administered to people over 16 years of age.

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia registered 14,185 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, down from 14,861 the day before, taking the overall tally to 4,071,883, the coronavirus response centre said on Sunday.

"Over the past day, 14,185 coronavirus cases were confirmed across 85 regions, including 1,587 cases (11.2 percent) that were detected actively, with people showing no clinical symptoms", the centre said, adding that the cumulative case count has now reached 4,071,883, with the rate of increase at 0.35 percent.

07:18 GMT 14.02.2021
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06:59 GMT 14.02.2021
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04:39 GMT 14.02.2021

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - More than 50 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been administered in the United States, according to the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

As of Saturday, CDC says 50,641,884 doses have been administered. According to CDC, 13,082,172 people in the US have received two vaccine doses.

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The UK’s largest airport has warned the government that it is not ready to roll out a new scheme to force travellers to quarantine in hotels due to "significant gaps" in the regulations.

"We have been working hard with the government to try to ensure the successful implementation of the policy from Monday, but some significant gaps remain and we are yet to receive the necessary reassurances... We will continue to work collaboratively with the government over the weekend but ministers must ensure there is adequate resources and appropriate protocols in place for each step of the full end-to-end process from aircraft to hotel to avoid compromising the safety of passengers and those working at the airport", a Heathrow spokesman noted.

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