Coronavirus Updates

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II last week wore a mask in public for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic. The queen was seen with the mask on at Westminster Abbey for a ceremony marking the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior.

Greece on Thursday ordered a three-week nationwide lockdown in an effort to curb the resurgent spread of the novel coronavirus. The new restrictions will take effect on Sunday.

The United States on Wednesday set a daily record for new coronavirus infections, with 104,004. As of Thursday, the total number of cases in the US stood at 9,802,374, with 239,842 deaths and 6,293,132 recoveries, according to Worldometer.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday announced a partial lockdown for the northern Lombardy region around the country’s financial capital of Milan. The Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta regions, also in the North, and Calabria, in the South, are also included in the “red zone” restrictions as Italy grapples with a new surge in coronavirus cases.

Andrew Polland, chief trial investigator for the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed by researchers at the University of Oxford, said on Wednesday that late-stage trial results could be presented before the end of the year, but likely not by Christmas.

Jordan on Wednesday reported 62 new deaths from the coronavirus, the highest number of daily fatalities since the outbreak began there nearly eight months ago.