Coronavirus Live News: New York Opens Massive Vaccination Sites As Worldwide Cases Pass 90 Million | World news

Hello and welcome to our live coverage of the coronavirus with me, Helen Sullivan.

I will be bringing you the latest good and bad pandemic developments worldwide in the coming hours.

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Two mass vaccination sites open in New York City on Sunday.

The mass sites were open for part of the day on Sundays before opening around the clock, seven days a week on Mondays as part of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s drive to set up 250 vaccination sites to meet the ambitious goal. of vaccination. 1 million New Yorkers by the end of the month.

Three other smaller locations are also open on Sundays.

Meanwhile, the total number of coronavirus cases worldwide has hit another sad milestone, closer to a whopping 100 meters, with the total passing 90 meters on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The death toll is 1,932,266.

Here are the other major recent developments:

• American house lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for Covid-19 during the siege of the Capitole by a violent mob loyal to Donald Trump. The Capitol’s attending physician notified all lawmakers on Sunday about the exposure to viruses and urged them to get tested.
• A new coronavirus variant of the coronavirus has been detected in four travelers from the Brazilian state of Amazonas, The Japanese Ministry of Health has said, in the latter case, that the virus develops.
• Seven people in Marseille, southern France, have tested positive for the new, more contagious variant of Covid-19 first found in Great Britain, local authorities have announced.
• Russia has discovered its first case of the more contagious coronavirus variant found in England, in a Russian who returned from Great Britain and tested positive at the end of last month.
• Northern Ireland’s health minister said Covid-19 is putting pressure on the health care system “Like never before,” as one hospital called on social media for the immediate help of all off-duty health workers in the area.
• One in five people in England may have had the coronavirus, new models suggest, equal to 12.4 million people, increasing to nearly one in two in some areas.