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Taiwan on Tuesday reported its first locally transmitted case of COVID19 since April 12, a friend of a New Zealand pilot who was confirmed to have been infected earlier this week, and is testing more than 100 contacts of the woman.

Developers of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V on Monday announced signing an agreement with AstraZeneca to test a combination of the British drugmaker's COVID19 shots and a component of the vaccine created in Moscow.

A health ministry spokesman said the EU experts' meeting had taken place on Sunday and included representatives of Berlin's Robert Koch Institute for public health.

The news came as a US expert panel recommended those aged 75 and older should be the next vaccinated against the virus.

Medical staffing is stretched increasingly thin as California hospitals scramble to find beds for patients amid an explosion of coronavirus cases that threatens to overwhelm the state's emergency care system.

Should California get its first Latino U.S. senator or should the 100member chamber maintain one Black womans voice?

British health minister Matt Hancock repeated Britain's calls for the European Union to shift its position on Sunday and withdraw its "unreasonable demands" for the two sides to be able to seal a postBrexit trade deal.

Sydney's coronavirus outbreak grew to around 70 on Sunday, forcing authorities to introduce stricter social distancing rules across the city, and more states to close borders or impose quarantine measures on its residents.

The total number of coronavirus cases in Africa crossed 2.5 million on Saturday, according to a Reuters tally, as a second wave of infections hits the continent.

Hong Kong authorities are searching for a COVID19 positive patient who escaped one of the city's largest hospitals while undergoing treatment, according to health officials.

South Africa has identified a new variant of the coronavirus that is driving a second wave of infections, the health minister said on Friday, days after Britain said it had also found a new variant of the virus boosting cases.

Some members of the Chicago City Council called Friday for a special meeting to order officials to settle any legal action with a woman who wasn't allowed to put on clothes before being handcuffed during a botched raid at her home.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he hoped that England would not need to go into a third lockdown after Christmas and follow Wales and Northern Ireland in imposing the measure to stop the growing spread of COVID19.

Ruben Guevara was marching in teargasfilled streets in Lima in November when he was hit in the face by what felt like a gas canister, severely damaging his right retina.

A winter storm piled recordbreaking amounts of snow onto parts of the U.S. Northeast on Thursday and wreaked havoc throughout the region, killing at least four people in traffic crashes and hobbling travel.

The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention center, including a 4yearold girl with a broken arm requiring surgery, according to lawyers for the families.