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Starting Monday, the Australian states of Victoria and Queensland are banning people arriving from Sydney, where a 70-person coronavirus cluster has emerged in its northern beach suburbs which have now been placed under a strict lockdown until Christmas Eve.
Thailand said Sunday it will test more than 10,000 people in the southwestern province of Samu Sakhon after a daily surge of more than 500.
Uganda on Sunday registered another 7 coronavirus related deaths and 197 new cases, rising the total cumulative death toll and cases to 238 and 31,384 respectively. Over 700,000 samples have been tested in Uganda to date.
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Reports from Britain and South Africa of new coronavirus strains that seem to spread more easily are causing alarm, but virus experts say it s unclear if that s the case or whether they pose any concern for vaccines or cause more severe disease.
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Dec. 22, 2020
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A new and potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus has been detected in Britain and elsewhere. With the Trump administration continuing to do little to address the pandemic, state and local leaders have, again, been left to deal with this problem on their own.
To that end, on Monday Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York persuaded major airlines to require people traveling from Britain to New York to first clear a coronavirus test. Mr. Cuomo’s willingness to act quickly and decisively here is commendable refreshing in a year rife with failures to do exactly that and the move seems reasonable in the face of federal inaction and many unknowns.
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