![]() ![]() Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Action Images/Reuters Spectators watch runners during the London Marathon as they run over Tower Bridge. The world No 2 female tennis player, Aryna Sabalenka, has pulled out of the Indian Wells tennis tournament in the US after testing positive for Covid-19.įor more on the global coronavirus situation, please visit our dedicated page.More than 40,000 people are running the 26.2-mile (42.16km) course around London, from Greenwich to the Mall with a further 40,000 running it “virtually”. The London Marathon is taking place for the first time today since the start of the pandemic.Intensive care units at hospitals in New England, in north-east US, are filling up again and staff shortages are affecting care.Latest figures compiled by AFP have found that nearly 4.8 million people have died from Covid-19 since the outbreak began, according to its tally from official sources.A total of 209,918 people have now died from the virus. ![]() Russia has broken its record for Covid deaths in one day, with 890 people dying in the last 24 hours.Israel’s government has changed rules on who can use indoor venues and facilities, meaning people will only be able to enter them if they have had a vaccine booster jab, or recovered from the virus recently.A spokesperson said the deaths occurred over the course of the pandemic. Three construction workers at the Expo 2020 world fair in Dubai have died from Covid-19, according to its organiser.They fear that more people will begin socialising inside as the weather gets colder, which increases the chance of transmitting the virus, as workers also return to offices. Scientists in the UK have warned that the country may still have worse to come during the pandemic, as winter approaches.Data from the National Health Commission reported that another 755,000 jabs were administered on Saturday. China has now given out 2.213bn doses of Covid-19 vaccines.Italy, one of the hardest hit countries in the early months of the pandemic, has recorded another 33 deaths from Covid-19.Another 43 people have been reported to have died from Covid-19 in the UK, down from 121 on Saturday, bringing the total death toll to 136,953.In the meantime, vaccines remain a critical tool to contain the virus.This live blog will now close - but here is a round-up of the day. The work will take a few weeks, the World Health Organization's technical lead on COVID-19, Maria van Kerkhove, said on Thursday. So more tests will be needed to confirm if it's more transmissible, infectious or can evade vaccines. UK Health Security Agency Chief Medical Advisor Dr Susan Hopkins told BBC radio some mutations had not been seen before, so it was not known how they would interact with the other ones, making it the most complex variant seen so far. That is about double the number of Delta, and makes this variant substantially different from the original coronavirus that current COVID vaccines were designed to counteract. This one has drawn scrutiny because it has more than 30 mutations of the spike protein that viruses use to get into human cells, UK health officials say. However, some changes may affect how easily they spread, the their severity or the performance of vaccines against them. The UK and Israel are among those to place travel restrictions on six southern African countries including South Africa.
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