Coronavirus live news: countries scramble to secure vaccine doses as US sees record hospitalisations

Iran and Lebanon impose lockdowns;Hong Kong, Singapore plan quarantine-free travel bubble;US sees record hospitalisationsGovernments scramble to secure vaccine dosesPfizer and BioNTech vaccine poses huge global logistics challengeSix key questions about Pfizer/BioNtech vaccineJair Bolsonaro claims ‘victory’ after Chinese vaccine trial suspendedDenmark ’s mass mink cull illegal, PM admits6.45amGMTFor over half a century, a massive graveyard on the edge of Iran ’s capital has provided a final resting place for this country’s war dead, its celebrities and artists, its thinkers and leaders and all those in between.But Behesht-e-Zahra is now struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic ravaging Iran, with double the usual number of bodies arriving each day and grave diggers excavating thousands of new plots, AP reports.With 1.6 million people buried on its grounds, which stretch across more than 5 square kilometers, Behesht-e-Zahra is one of the world ’s largest cemeteries and the primary one for Tehran’s 8.6 million people. The golden minarets of its Imam Khomeini Shrine, the burial site of the leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, are visible for kilometres.But it was not big enough for the coronavirus, which roared into Iran early this year, seeding the region ’s worst outbreak.6.31amGMTA care home called the police when a woman who had been denied visits to her 83-year-old husband for eight months amid the Covid pandemic sneaked in to get him out.P...
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