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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: Drug giant Pfizer says final trial results of its vaccine show it is 95 percent effective. It says no serious side effects were found and that it will apply for emergency use authorisation from US regulators within days. Berlin police fire water cannon to disperse thousands of unmasked protesters demonstrating against new measures to curb the spread of the virus. World Health Organization data shows the number of new cases in Europe declined last week for the first time in over three months, but deaths in the region continued to climb. A Swiss medical association says intensive care units are saturated across the country as the second wave of the virus takes a heavy toll. Stay-at-home orders are issued for South Australia residents in a six-day circuit-breaker lockdown meant to contain a cluster in Adelaide that ended a months-long streak of no infections. The US gives green light to the first virus home test kit that shows the result in 30 minutes or less. Republican Chuck Grassley -- the US Senate's second-oldest member at 87 -- tests positive and enters quarantine. It ends his 27-year record of never missing a vote. The embattled head of Britain's virus test and trace system Dido Harding goes into self-isolation after receiving an alert from her own app. Hungary extends its state of emergency that enables partial lockdown measures for an extra two months to February 8. The coronavirus has killed at least 1,339,130 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT on Wednesday. That includes 10,724 new deaths, with 590,690 new cases recorded worldwide. The US has the most new deaths with 1,313, followed by France with 1,219 and Italy with 731. The US is the worst-affected country with 248,707 deaths, followed by Brazil with 166,699, India with 130,993, Mexico with 99,026 and the United Kingdom with 52,745. Britain's National Audit Office says its government has failed to account for all of the $24 billion spent on pandemic supplies and services. The ruling Conservatives are under attack from the opposition for alleged cronyism in the awarding of contracts. Chinese health officials say two workers in the port city of Tianjin are infected after a number of outbreaks linked to imported frozen food. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls for G20 leaders, who meet in Saudi Arabia this weekend, to suspend debt repayments for developing and middle-income countries until the end of 2021. Greek police use tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons in Athens to break up a demonstration to mark a 1973 student uprising against the country's then military leaders that was banned because of the pandemic. French President Emmanuel Macron tells sports officials that fans will not be allowed to return to stadiums this year, and when they do it will be with strict crowd limits. bur-nrh/fg/pma
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