Paris (AFP)

New reports, new measures and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.

- Vaccines in UK Tuesday, soon in Canada -

In the UK, the first doses of the vaccine will begin to be administered in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on Tuesday.

The majority of the population will have to wait until 2021.

In Canada, the American-German pharmaceutical duo Pfizer / BioNTech "will deliver" by the end of the month up to 249,000 doses of its candidate vaccine, announced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and the first vaccinations should take place a few days after.

- Southern California confined -

More than 20 million people living in Southern California enter confinement for three weeks on Monday.

Residents are called to stay at home, most offices are closed and meetings of people from different homes prohibited.

- Greece: prolonged confinement -

Greece is extending its main containment measures until January 7, including the closure of schools.

- Denmark: closing of colleges, high schools, restaurants -

Colleges, high schools, bars, cafes and restaurants will close in 38 Danish municipalities, including Copenhagen and the country's two other largest cities.

The family of Crown Prince Frederik has been placed in quarantine after the positive diagnosis of his eldest son Prince Christian.

- Germany: lack of ebb, restrictions in sight -

Germany, long cited as an example for its management of the crisis, is struggling to stem the second wave and is preparing in the most affected regions to tighten restrictions.

- France: the milestone of 5,000 cases in mid-December is moving away -

France, which records an average of 10,000 new cases per day, remains far from the target of less than 5,000 daily contaminations set by President Emmanuel Macron to lift the containment in mid-December.

"We are still facing a high risk of an epidemic rebound", warned the Director General of Health Jérôme Salomon.

- Reconfinement in the West Bank -

In the occupied West Bank, the government has announced that it will restore a weeklong general lockdown in four of the eleven provinces.

- Austria deconfines -

Austria eased its restrictions on Monday, reopening shops, schools and museums after three weeks of strict containment, while calling for caution as contaminations remain high.

- More than 1.53 million deaths

The pandemic has killed more than 1.53 million people worldwide since the end of December, according to a report established by AFP on Monday at 11:00 GMT.

Some 67 million cases have been officially recorded, of which more than 42.6 million have been cured.

The United States has the most deaths (282,324), ahead of Brazil (176,941), India (140,573), Mexico (109,717), the United Kingdom (61,245) and Italy (60,078).

- Paris Air Show canceled -

The 2021 edition of the Paris Air Show, near Paris, scheduled for June, is canceled "given the uncertainty linked to the health crisis," announced the organizer.

This 54th edition of the show is postponed until June 2023.

- Davos in Singapore -

The World Economic Forum (WEF) will be held in Singapore next May rather than in Switzerland, its organizers announced Monday citing the health situation, the former British colony appearing as "the best place" to guarantee the safety of participants.

- Nobel in the countries of the laureates -

The Covid-19 having got the better of the ceremonies with great pomp in Stockholm and Oslo, the 2020 Nobel Prize winners began to receive their rewards in their countries of residence, starting with the American Louise Glück (literature) and the French Emmanuelle Carpenter (chemistry).

- Lufthansa: savings against no redundancies -

The ground staff of the Lufthansa group, where 30,000 jobs will be cut, have accepted 200 million euros in savings against the guarantee to avoid redundancies until March 2022, the main union announced on Monday.

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