World Coronavirus Dispatch: First cases likely recorded in Antarctica

Wave after wave in Europe, Corp advisors warn US firms against mandatory vaccine for staff, Telehealth to the rescue of ASEAN hospitals and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Britain and France race to negotiate reopening of borders

As fears over the new strain of coronavirus deepen, Britain and France are negotiating reopening of borders. The new strain that likely emerged in late September, and is more efficient in transmission from what we have seen so far. Many countries have snapped travel links from and to UK fearing the spread of the new mutation. Thousands of European truck drivers, almost 1,000 of them French, are stuck on the English side of the Channel because of the French border restrictions. Read here

Let's look at the global statistics

Global infections: