3:54 AM MYT LONDON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) British lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved the government s decision to impose the new national lockdown in England, the third of its kind since the coronavirus pandemic began in the country. Following a four-hour debate in the House of Commons, the lower house of parliament, MPs approved the lockdown by 524 votes to 16. The House of Commons was recalled from its Christmas recess to debate and retrospectively voted on the lockdown which has already been in force since it was announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson Monday evening. Earlier Wednesday, Johnson told MPs that the easing of England s national lockdown would be a gradual unwrapping and not a big bang .
3:09 AM MYT LJUBLJANA, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) Slovenia on Wednesday registered a record daily number of 3,354 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases to 131,787 in the country, according to the National Institute of Public Health. On Tuesday, a combined total of 22,194 PCR (polymerase chain reaction) and rapid antigen tests were performed in the country. Of the 6,956 PCR tests performed, 2,602 came back positive. That resulted in a positivity rate of 37.4 percent. The positivity rate for the 15,238 rapid antigen tests exceeded 4.9 percent. Thirty-one new deaths took the toll to 2,899. The national COVID-19 tracker site Sledilnik shows that there are currently 21,781 active cases in Slovenia. A total of 1,177 patients are in hospital for COVID-19, 183 of them in intensive care.
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In front of an American flag, nurse Lillian Wirpsza administers a COVID-19 vaccine to Shylee Stewart, a labour and delivery nurse at George Washington University Hospital, in Washington, DC, on Dec 14, 2020. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Pool via REUTERS)
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NEWARK, New .Jersey: The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centres on Tuesday (Dec 15), inoculating thousands more healthcare workers in a mass immunisation expected to reach the general public in the coming months.