Morning news brief: Coronavirus in USA, and across the world
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The United States has reported a record number of deaths from COVID-19, as the worst outbreak in the world shows little sign of easing | READ MORE
The COVID-19 vaccine developed by British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc and Oxford University will likely be authorised for emergency use in the United States in April | READ MORE
Sixty-one percent of White House appointees are women and 54 per cent are people of colour, President-elect Joe Biden's transition team said | READ MORE
Almost every inmate held at the Alaska's largest prison has contracted the coronavirus since the pandemic hit the facility in November this year | READ MORE
AIIMS Delhi Director Dr Randeep Guleria on Wednesday said that India will have the COVID-19 vaccine within days | READ MORE
The United States announced Wednesday that it will impose additional tariffs on French and German products as part of a long-running dispute over subsidies for aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing | READ MORE
The EU and the UK signed a post-Brexit trade deal on Wednesday, sealing their drawn-out divorce in the closing hours before the UK definitively ends its half-century European experiment | READ MORE