Latvia and Estonia also confirm record one-day infections; Cyprus introduces night-time curfew; England’s lockdown to begin.
- Rich states’ Covid deals ‘may deprive poor of vaccine for years’
- Turkey resists calls for tougher measures to tackle case surge
- Denmark plans to cull 15m mink over Covid mutation fears
- Jordan suffers Covid surge after early success against virus
- UK Covid death toll rises by nearly 400 in a day
As of 00:01 GMT England will have entered its second national lockdown, placing 56 million people under new coronavirus restrictions for at least the next four weeks.
Despite a bruising vote in which the prime minister Boris Johnson’s strategy was rejected by dozens of his own MPs, the stay-at-home order was approved in parliament on Wednesday by 516 votes to 38.
Hello and welcome to today’s live global coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.
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