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Some scammers have been defrauding people by falsely offering them COVID vaccines in return for payment, the Welsh health minister said on Monday, sounding warnings from police in other parts of Britain.

Brazil’s vice president, Hamilton Mourão, has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said on Sunday, when the country registered 344 new COVID-19 deaths.

Japan has said it would temporarily ban non-resident foreign nationals from entering the country as it tightens its borders following the detection of a new, highly infectious variant of the coronavirus.

The new variant of coronavirus linked to a rapid rise in infections in Britain has been detected in Sweden after a traveller from the United Kingdom became ill and tested positive, the Swedish Health Agency said on Saturday.

US regulators cleared Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday, making it the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

A Nigerian identified as Dr. Benjamin Okigbo has allegedly killed himself and his wife, Mrs Theresa Okigbo but two of their children were lucky having narrowly escaped strangulation during the incident in their home at Greenwood in Texas on Friday,

A new national lockdown is not inevitable in Britain to stop the spread of a new variant of coronavirus, health minister Matt Hancock said on Sunday, adding that tighter restrictions in London and southeast England should help curb the disease.

The planning committee has revealed that President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, will be sworn into office on January 20, 2021 on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, but the inaugural festivities will be largely virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Germany will close most stores from Wednesday until at least January 10, cutting short the busy Christmas shopping season, as it tightens coronavirus restrictions and tries to rein in the spread of the disease, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta has suggested the door might be opened for Mesut Ozil to return to the squad in January.