Live coronavirus news: New York opens mass vaccination sites as global cases exceed 90 million | World news

Hello and welcome to our live coronavirus coverage, Helen Sullivan.

I will bring you the latest good and bad pandemic developments from around the world for the next few hours.

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Two mass vaccination sites opened in New York on Sunday.

The meal sites were opened part of the day on Sunday before starting operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week on Monday, as part of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s effort to set up 250 locations. vaccination to meet the ambitious goal of inoculating 1 million New Yorkers by the end of the month.

Three other smaller sites opened on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the overall number of coronavirus cases came with another sad stage closer to a staggering 100m, with a total crossing of 90m on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The death toll is 1,932,266.

Here are other recent key developments:

• US lawmakers have been exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid-19 during the Sieg Chapterof a violent mob loyal to Donald Trump. The Chapter’s doctor notified all lawmakers on Sunday about the exposure to the virus and urged them to be tested.
• A new variant of coronavirus has been detected in four travelers from the Brazilian state of Amazonas, The Japanese Ministry of Health said in the most recent case of the evolution of the virus.
• Seven people from Marseille, southern France, tested positive for the new, more infectious version of Covid-19 first found in the UK, announced the local authorities.
• Russia has detected its first case of a more infectious variant of the coronavirus found in England, in a Russian who returned from the UK and gave positive results at the end of last month.
• The Health Minister of Northern Ireland said that Covid-19 is putting the medical system under pressure “Like never before,” as a hospital called on social media for the immediate help of all medical workers outside the workplace.
• One in five people in England could have had a coronavirus, a new model suggests, equivalent to 12.4 million people, growing to almost one in two in some areas.