Bratislava [Slovakia], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): Slovakia has registered 6,315 new coronavirus cases within the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the start of the outbreak, the national Ministry of Health said.
Geneva [Switzerland], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The World Health Organization said on Thursday it had issued an emergency use validation for the vaccine against the coronavirus developed by the Pfizer and BioNTech companies, the first one since the start of the pandemic.
Paris [France], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): France has registered its first case of a new coronavirus strain, known as 501.V2 variant and linked to South Africa, the country's Health Ministry said on Thursday.
London [UK], January 1 (ANI/Sputnik): The United Kingdom saw 55,892 new coronavirus cases in the past day, breaking the record of 53,135 cases recorded Tuesday, according to data published Thursday by the Department of Health.
Washington [US], December 31 (ANI/Sputnik): The United States saw a new daily high of 3,744 deaths from coronavirus in the past 24-hour period, according to data published Thursday by Johns Hopkins University.
Seoul [South Korea], December 31 (ANI/Sputnik): South Koreans working at US military bases in the country have become the first citizens to be inoculated against the coronavirus, media reported on Thursday.
Tel Aviv [Israel], December 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Over 150,000 Israeli citizens received a vaccine against the coronavirus over the past day, taking the total count of those vaccinated to 800,000, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
Moscow [Russia], December 31 (ANI/Sputnik): Russia has registered 27,747 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, up from 26,513 the day before, bringing the total to 3,159,297, the federal response center said on Thursday.
Prague [Czech Republic], December 30 (ANI/Sputnik): The Czech Republic has confirmed 16,329 new coronavirus disease cases, hitting a new single-day record, the health ministry said Wednesday.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 30 (ANI): Maharashtra has not recorded any case of the new mutant coronavirus strain that surfaced in the United Kingdom yet, state health minister Rajesh Tope said on Wednesday.
Washington [US], December 30 (ANI): An ICU nurse in San Diego, who had received Pfizer Inc vaccine's shot against COVID-19 on December 18, has tested positive for the virus.
Paris [France], December 30 (ANI/Xinhua): With 384 more deaths from coronavirus reported in hospitals in the past 24 hours, together with a one-week sum of 585 COVID-19 deaths in elder houses and other social care institutions, France has lost 64,078 lives to the disease since the epidemic b