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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a "stay at home" order for London and southeast England to slow a new coronavirus strain that is significantly more infectious. Early data suggests the new strain could be "up to 70 percent more transmissible", according to Johnson. He orders new restrictions for London and south-eastern England -- an area home to around a third of the country's population -- from Sunday until at least December 30. Italy will be classified a "red" zone over the Christmas and New Year periods, meaning that between December 21 and January 6, people will only be allowed to leave their homes once per day to visit friends or relatives, and travel between regions will be banned. And starting from December 24, bars and restaurants will also be closed. However, the rules will be relaxed on December 28, 29 and 30, as well as on January 4, when shops will be able to remain open until 9 pm and people will be allowed to move about freely. Swiss regulators give the green light to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, with immunisation set to start within days as the country battles rising coronavirus cases and deaths. It is the first Covid-19 vaccine approved in the wealthy Alpine nation, but others are being assessed. Health Minister Alain Berset says vaccinating will start "in the coming days." "Those who are particularly vulnerable will have priority," he says. The United States authorises Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, as the country grapples with a surge that is killing over 2,500 people a day. The US is the first nation to approve the two-dose regimen, which is now the second vaccine to be deployed in a Western country after one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech. Hours after the approval, preparations start to move the first of millions of doses to locations across the US, a top official says. At least nine coronavirus patients die in a fire at a hospital in southeastern Turkey, the health ministry says. The blaze in an intensive care ward of the hospital in Gaziantep broke out when a tank on an artificial respirator exploded. All the victims were patients who had been hospitalised with the coronavirus. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is vaccinated against coronavirus, kicking off a national rollout over the coming days. Thailand's biggest seafood market and the surrounding area are locked down to contain a coronavirus outbreak, after the country's largest spike in cases since the pandemic began. The kingdom had been mostly unscathed by the pandemic, with just over 4,000 cases and 60 deaths so far. But on Saturday night, authorities announce 548 positive cases connected to the market in Mahachai, Samut Sakhon province, about 40 minutes southwest of Bangkok. Australia's gruelling Sydney to Hobart yacht race is called off for the first time in its 76-year history because of an escalating coronavirus outbreak, organisers say. The often brutal 628-nautical mile (1,163-kilometre) bluewater classic was due to start on Boxing Day, but with parts of Sydney locked down after a new cluster of Covid-19 cases, it is cancelled. French President Emmanuel Macron who tested positive this week is stable and tests are showing reassuring results. The president, who is working in self-isolation from an official residence outside Paris, "is still presenting the same symptoms of the Covid-19 illness (fatigue, coughing, stiffness)", a statement signed by his doctor says. At least 1,675,362 people have died since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP. The United States is the worst-affected country with 313,660 deaths, followed by Brazil with 185,650 deaths, India with 145,136, Mexico with 117,249 and Italy with 67,894. bur-spm-erc/har/tgb
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