China has tightened requirements for passengers flying in from the US amid a spike in imported COVID-19 cases among those traveling from the US.
The port city of Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, ordered all of its local medical institutions to enter wartime mode on Sunday, after the city reported a new confirmed COVID-19 case on Saturday, bringing the total to two confirmed cases and six silent carriers.
Tongxiang, East China's Zhejiang Province, has tested 72 samples from personnel, packages, and environment after a batch of contaminated beef imported from Argentina was sold to the city. All tests returned negative results.
China has tightened requirements for passengers flying in from the US after seeing a sharp increase of imported COVID-19 cases from the US.
Italians will have to spend much of the Christmas and New Year holiday in a nationwide "red zone" in a bid to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced in a nationally televised press conference on Friday evening.
China will start inoculating some key groups with COVID-19 vaccines in this winter-spring period, said a National Health Commission (NHC) official in Beijing on Saturday.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday announced new stricter coronavirus restrictions for London and parts of England to combat an alarming surge in infections linked to a new virulent strain.
The United States has reported over 400,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day on Friday, setting a gloomy new world record as the country is preparing distribution of second COVID-19 vaccine to states.
Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States, on Friday hit a grim milestone of 600,000 confirmed cases in total.
New York City's COVID-19 test positivity rate on a seven-day average went up to 6.22 percent, compared with 6.16 percent one day earlier, Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted on Saturday.
After one of the most successful cyber intrusion operations in US history, questions remain abound over how the federal government have been so utterly blindsided by an attack many experts describe as a grave threat that should have been anticipated.
More and more European countries are suspending flights to the UK as a new strain of coronavirus takes hold in London and southeast England.
Outgoing US President Donald Trump has downplayed the seriousness and impact of a massive cyber attack on the government's military, intelligence and financial institutions as well as the alleged Russian role in it, instead pointing to China as the possible source.
Two U.S. senators say the United States must respond to a widespread cyberattack that U.S. officials say was carried out by Russian hackers who managed to break into the computer networks of multiple U.S. government agencies.
Bulgaria will close its air, sea and land borders to travellers coming from the United Kingdom from midnight until Jan. 31 to prevent importing a new strain of the coronavirus, the health ministry said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
Some 35928 COVID-19 cases were recorded in the UK on Sunday, pushing the caseload to more than 2 million, according to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
More than 75.15 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,680,874 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
Russia reported 28,948 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, including 7,263 in Moscow, taking the national toll to 2,848,377, Reuters reported.
While Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Russia of being behind a recent major hacking attack on the US, President Donald Trump was not that sure, instead suspecting China's involvement in the intrusion.
The Netherlands is banning flights from the United Kingdom starting Sunday because of a new strain of the COVID-19 coronavirus that threatens to spread far more rapidly than other variants, the Dutch government announced in a statement.
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