Coronavirus Live News: New York Opens Mass Vaccination Sites As Global Cases Surpass 90 Million | World news

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I will bring you the latest positive and negative developments of the pandemic around the world over the next few hours.

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Two mass vaccination sites opened in New York on Sunday.

The mass sites were open for part of the day on Sunday before starting to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week Monday as part of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s efforts to create 250 vaccination sites in order to achieve the ambitious goal of vaccination. 1 million New Yorkers by the end of the month.

Three other smaller venues also opened on Sunday.

Meanwhile, the total worldwide coronavirus cases took another sad step closer to a staggering 100m, with the total rising to 90m on Sunday, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University. The death toll stands at 1,932,266.

Here are other key recent developments:

• US House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone who tested positive for Covid-19 during the siege of the Capitole by a violent crowd loyal to Donald Trump. The Capitol Hill attending physician informed all lawmakers on Sunday of exposure to the virus and urged them to be tested.
• A new coronavirus variant of the coronavirus has been detected in four travelers from the Brazilian state of Amazonas, The Japanese health ministry said in the last recorded case of evolution of the virus.
• Seven people in Marseille, southern France, have tested positive for the new, more infectious variant of Covid-19 first found in Britain, said local authorities.
• Russia detected its first case of the most infectious coronavirus variant found in England, in a Russian who returned from Great Britain and tested positive at the end of last month.
• Northern Ireland’s Minister of Health says Covid-19 is putting pressure on the healthcare system “Like never before,” as a hospital took to social media for immediate help from any discharged health workers nearby.
• One in five people in England may have had coronavirus, new modeling suggests, equivalent to 12.4 million people, rising to nearly one in two people in some areas.