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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The world-first rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is due to start on Tuesday in the UK. Dubbed "V-Day" by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, he has volunteered to take it live on television. Queen Elizabeth II, 94, has also said she will take the vaccine as has Monty Python star Michael Palin, 77, campaigning singer Bob Geldof, 69, and 73-year-old Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones. Pfizer and BioNTech will deliver the first -- up to 249,000 -- doses of their Covid-19 vaccine to Canada this month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces. He says pending Health Canada approval, the first shipment could be delivered next week, with millions more doses to follow in 2021. Two Indian pharmaceutical firms seek fast-track approval for distribution of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine -- of which the company is already making 50-60 million doses a month -- saying it "will save countless lives" in the hard-hit country of 1.3 billion. Southern California goes into a strict lockdown, with more than 20 million people under stay-at-home orders triggered after hospitals passed a threshold set by Governor Gavin Newsom of more than 85 percent of intensive care unit beds being filled. Denmark announces new shutdown measures in 38 municipalities covering almost half of the country's population, including the closure of middle and high schools, bars, cafes and restaurants. Greece extends its lockdown measures to January 7, citing the slow impact of restrictive measures announced a month ago. The shutdown affects schools, restaurants, clubs, courts and most professional sports and travel between regions. Chancellor Angela Merkel urges German regions with high coronavirus rates to tighten social contact restrictions before Christmas, after the country sees its infection levels plateau at a high level for more than a month. The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,535,987 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP on Monday. The US is the worst-affected country with 282,324 deaths. After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 176,941 deaths, India with 140,573 deaths, Mexico with 109,717 deaths, and the UK with 61,245 deaths. The World Economic Forum moves next year's summit from Switzerland to Singapore, where it will be held in person from May 13-16 due to the pandemic. England's cricket tour of South Africa is called off after a Covid-19 outbreak in the England touring party. The Vatican announces Pope Francis will visit Iraq in March, in what will be his first trip since the coronavirus pandemic. Some 35,000 ground crew at Germany's beleaguered airline giant Lufthansa agree to a 200-million-euro ($240 million) cut in personnel costs in exchange for avoiding forced redundancies until March 2022, trade union Verdi says. Qatar will inaugurate its third completed football 2022 World Cup stadium with a domestic fixture on December 18 at which half of tickets will be reserved for fans who have recovered from coronavirus. burs-nrh-jmy/erc
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