Doctors and nurses treat Covid-19 patients in a makeshift ICU wing at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrence, Calif. on Dec. 29.
Photographer: Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Photographer: Dania Maxwell/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
India will make vaccines free nationwide, Thailand’s capital will close entertainment venues and Hong Kong plans to roll out inoculations in February as authorities in Asia try to suppress recent outbreaks.
Sydney has mandated masks in many indoor settings as the pandemic shows no signs of slowing down in 2021. Tokyo’s governor is urging Japan to declare a state of emergency while Turkey, China and Brazil became the latest nations to report infections of the new, highly transmissible virus strain.
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