On November 20, India’s coronavirus cases crossed the nine million mark after it recorded more than 45,000 new infections. The US has registered more than 12 million cases of COVID-19 on November 22 as health experts continued to caution people to heed a warning not to travel for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday. The number of critical cases stood at 79. In total 14,768 people had contracted COVID-19, with 65 deaths. On November 26 the occupied West Bank entered a 48-hour lockdown to limit the spread of the coronavirus pandemic as cases continued to rise.Ī rapid rise in coronavirus infections in the Gaza Strip reached a “catastrophic stage,” health officials warned on November 23. On November 27, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there were “very good chances” that most Canadians would be able to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by next September. The UK, on December 2, became the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use and said that it will be rolled out from next week.įunding shortfalls and disruptions to treatment in sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the pandemic risk tens of thousands more lives being lost to malaria, the WHO said on November 30. On December 3, Turkey’s health minister announced a plan to start using an experimental Chinese COVID-19 vaccine later this month amid a surge in infections and deaths. On December 4 Bahrain said it had approved the emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech.
On December 5 Moscow started vaccinating workers at high risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus at newly opened clinics across the city. On December 9, Canadian health officials authorised the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, hailing the development as a “critical milestone.” November 30 – December 6 The US government said it will receive an additional 100 million doses of Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine on December 12, the announcement came as the country prepared for a vaccine roll-out On December 13, the UK said a new variant of the coronavirus had been identified in the country. The US public started to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on December 14, after it was authorised for emergency use by the US FDA. On December 16, South Korea hit another one-day record of new coronavirus cases, surpassing 1,000 for the second time. On December 18, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on an emergency basis.įrench President Emmanuel Macron tested positive for COVID-19 on December 17. On December 19, British PM Boris Johnson imposed tighter coronavirus curbs on millions of people in England, as the government said it was battling a new more infectious strain of the virus. Mexico became the first country in Latin America to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on December 23. On December 24, another new variant of the new coronavirus seemed to have emerged in Nigeria, the head of Africa’s disease control body said, cautioning more investigation was needed. On December 25, Japan confirmed its first five cases of the new, faster-spreading variant of the coronavirus in passengers arriving from the UK.
Health authorities in France and Lebanon confirmed their first cases of the coronavirus variant on December 26. Separately, US President Donald Trump signed into law a $2.3-trillion pandemic aid and government spending package, restoring unemployment benefits and averting a federal government shutdown. On December 27, Europe launched an enormous COVID vaccination drive with elderly patients and medics receiving the first shots. On December 28, South Africa reported at least one million cases of coronavirus since confirming its first case in March. Health officials are optimistic about tackling the pandemic in the Middle East’s hardest-hit country. On December 29, Iran launched human trials of its coronavirus vaccine.
The US reported a record number of deaths from COVID-19 on December 30, with more than 3,900 people dead, bringing the toll since the pandemic began to more than 19.7 million infections and 341,000 lives lost. On December 31 China confirmed its first case of a new coronavirus variant that was recently detected in the UK. More than 46 million people have recovered.īelow is a timeline: December 28 – December 31
The disease has killed more than 1.8 million people and infected more than 82.8 million, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus a global pandemic more than nine months ago and since then, the illness it causes, known as COVID-19, has spread to nearly every country in the world.
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