BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.

- - - -

NEW YORK -- The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 18 million on Monday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

- - - -

STOCKHOLM -- Sweden on Monday announced that it's barring travelers from neighboring Denmark after the country reported a new and more infectious variant of the coronavirus first found in the UK.

The move came after Sweden suspended travel links with the UK following British Health Secretary Matt Hancock's warning that the new strain of the coronavirus is "out of control" there.

- - - -

BOGOTA -- Colombia plans to launch a mass vaccination campaign against the novel coronavirus in February, President Ivan Duque said on Monday.

In an interview with a local radio station, Duque said a trial vaccination run could begin between this week and the first week of January.

- - - -

TIANJIN -- Tianjin Municipality in northern China has found the COVID-19 virus on a sample collected from the packaging of imported pig trotters, local authorities said Monday.

The city's COVID-19 prevention and control headquarters said that, during an inspection of imported cold-chain food, authorities detected the novel coronavirus in the samples taken from the packaging of pig trotters in a cold storage in Binhai New Area on Sunday. The food had been imported from Denmark.

- - - -

THE HAGUE -- The Netherlands reported on Sunday 13,302 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide tally to 689,705, according to the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment.

The country also reported 32 new deaths from the virus, raising the total death toll to 10,491, said the institute. Enditem

Related

Go to Forum >>0 Comment(s)