1. The total number of coronavirus cases across the world has surpassed 87.16 million on Thursday, while the deaths have surged to more than 1.88 million, as per Johns Hopkins University.
2. World Health Organization experts warned Wednesday there could be six months of “hard, hard road ahead” in 2021 before vaccines turn the tide against the coronavirus pandemic.
3. The US recorded 3,775 deaths in one day, according to Johns Hopkins University, the fourth time the toll in the world’s worst-affected country has exceeded 3,500. Each of the four days has occurred in the last three weeks. The total US death toll is 361,063. The number of cases stands at 21,294,092.
4. Mexico has reported a new high for a daily increase in coronavirus cases, with 13,345 newly confirmed infections reported Wednesday for the previous 24 hours.
5. China reported 63 new Covid-19 infections on Thursday – the highest single-day tally since July – as authorities try to stamp out an outbreak of the virus in a city of 11 million near Beijing.
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6. Japan is to declare a state of emergency in the greater Tokyo area later today, after a record number of coronavirus cases were reported in the capital and across the country, The Guardian reported.
7. India has reported 20,346 new Covid-19 cases, 19,587 recoveries, and 222 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of cases to 1,03,95,278 on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry.
8. Tunisia recorded 2,820 new confirmed coronavirus cases- the most since the start of the pandemic-the health ministry said on Wednesday.
9. Portugal has extended state of emergency amid record daily Covid cases. The daily number of Covid-19 cases in the nation of around 10 million people reached a record high of 10,027.
10. Ireland tightens Covid-19 lockdown by closing schools and construction for at least three weeks in an effort to curb a sharp rise in Covid-19 infections.
