Herald section
The latest health reporting from The Belfast Herald.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announces that the city will rollback to phase 2 and tighten their restrictions as an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Alberta reports 22 deaths from COVID-19, a new single-day record.
North Dakota reports zero deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, making it the first time since September 20 that this has occurred.
President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, President-elect Joe Biden, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and other federal government officials are expected to be among the first people to receive the vaccine.
Clinical trials of a University of Queensland and CSL Limited COVID-19 vaccine were stopped after participants tested falsely positive for HIV. The trial had begun in July with 120 volunteers in Brisbane.
Egypt receives its first shipment of 50,000 of Sinopharm's vaccine, making it the first African country to receive COVID-19 vaccines. The shipment was provided as a gift from the United Arab Emirates, which recently announced that the vaccine had an 86% efficacy based on Phase III testing results.
The Food and Drug Administration announces that they have formally approved Tozinameran, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Malaysia's total confirmed cases exceeded 80,000 on 11 December 2020, with 1,810 new infections reported, including 829 in Selangor and 532 in Sabah, while active cases rose to 12,734.