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| - Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus crisis: The US is poised to start vaccinating health care workers and nursing home residents with the Pfizer-BioNtech shot. Germany will go into a partial lockdown from Wednesday closing non-essential shops and schools and urging companies to allow employees to work from home until January 10. Italy passes out Britain with the worst death toll in Europe and the fifth worst in the world. Canada also begins a roll-out of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine just days after becoming one of the first countries to approve it. The United Arab Emirates also launches vaccinations in the capital Abu Dhabi days after it approved a jab by Chinese drugs giant Sinopharm. The Netherlands mulls closing non-essential shops, theatres, museums and amusement parks, as the number of infections as its death toll passes 10,000. At least 26 Nigerian generals have tested positive after attending a conference in the nation's capital and one, Major-General John Irefin, has died. Ambrose Dlamini, 52, the prime minister of Africa's last absolute monarchy -- previously known as Swaziland -- died on Sunday from the virus in neighbouring South Africa. Otto Baric, one of Croatia's most respected and successful football coaches, died Sunday from the virus. The novel coronavirus has killed at least 1,612,297 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 299,191 deaths, followed by Brazil with 181,402, India with 143,355, Mexico with 113,953 and Italy with 64,520. The World Health Organization says one in four health centres worldwide lacks access to water, putting around 1.8 billion people at increased risk of contracting the virus. German biotech firm CureVac says it is starting final-phase clinical trials for its vaccine before seeking approval from regulators. The French central bank expects the country's economy to recover more slowly than previously thought and return to its pre-pandemic level only in mid-2022. The Japanese written character "mitsu", meaning dense, crowded and close -- everything people in Japan were urged to avoid this year -- is voted the country's top symbol of 2020. Two Malaysian ministers who should have been quarantining after being exposed to the virus voted in parliament in protective gear, prompting opposition MPs to protest and many to walk out. burs-nrh/fg/txw
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