Europe’s resurgent coronavirus outbreak intensified, with Italy’s new cases reaching a record and France reporting the most deaths since April. President Emmanuel Macron is readying new measures to control the spread, while Germany’s Angela Merkel will propose harsher restrictions on movement.
Japan passes a bill to offer a free vaccine. In the U.S., Covid-19 hospitalisations have risen at least 10% in the past week in 32 states and the nation’s capital as the month-old viral surge increasingly weighs on America’s health-care system.
Globally, Covid-19 infections rose past 43.8 million with over 1.16 million dead.
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