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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: A 90-year-old British grandmother becomes the first person in a Western country to receive an approved vaccine, as Britain rolls out the biggest inoculation drive in its history. The pandemic tops the list of 2020 Twitter topics with the hashtag #Covid19 and other variations tweeted nearly 400 million times. #StayHome was the third biggest hashtag of the year. The World Health Organization says persuading people on the merits of a vaccine would be far better than trying to make the jabs mandatory. France is 'far' from its goal of reducing the number of new infections to under 5,000 a day, the level at which the government has promised to lift a lockdown. Italy's Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese tests positive. Two ministers who sat next to her at a recent meeting put themselves into self-isolation after learning of her diagnosis. Israeli authorities announce a nationwide night-time curfew starting December 9 aimed at curbing a steep increase in cases over recent weeks. The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,545,320 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Tuesday. The US is the worst-affected country with 283,746 deaths. After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 177,317 deaths, India with 140,958, Mexico with 110,074, and the UK with 61,434 deaths. The medical arm of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com soars 75 percent on its debut in Hong Kong, valuing the company at $50 billion as investors bank on the pandemic boom in digital health services. Europe's third-biggest low-cost carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle, which recently filed for bankruptcy protection in Ireland, launches a similar process in Norway, the latest airline suffering from the pandemic that has paralysed global air traffic. Brazil's Sao Paulo State -- Latin America's pandemic epicentre -- says it will launch a vaccination campaign in January using the Chinese-developed CoronaVac pending state approval of the jab. Hong Kong will ban evening dining at restaurants and close fitness centres as part of new measures aimed at stemming a fourth wave of infections. Japan's prime minister unveils more than $700 billion in fresh stimulus to fund projects including pandemic measures, the country's third such package this financial year. The economy of South Africa, which is the country on the continent with the most cases to date, bounces back strongly in the third quarter from a slump inflicted by the pandemic. burs-nrh/jmy/bp
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