Coronavirus live news: quarter of deaths in France linked to Covid as US tops 140,000 daily cases

France’s lockdown extended by two weeks; German infection surge may be easing; Russia says its Sputnik-V vaccine is 92% effective

Hello and welcome to today’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.

As the world confirmed a record 666,053 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University, the French prime minister, Jean Castex, said there would be no easing of a second Covid-19 lockdown in France for at least two weeks, with the number of people in hospital infected by the coronavirus now higher than at the peak of the first wave.

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