World Coronavirus Dispatch: Hong Kong comes up with medical staycations

Deadly Covid wave in California, Japan likely to go into month-long emergency, Singapore cops to get 19 contact tracing data and other pandemic-related news across the globe

No-holds-barred virus surge in California

California is enduring a deadly coronavirus wave, reporting more cases and deaths than the previous surge in the United States. The current wave, led by the holiday season, is overwhelming hospitals and frontline workers alike, with no reprieve. In Los Angeles county alone, there is a new infection every six seconds, and many more are going unnoticed. The state is also rushing to fill oxygen tanks as it faces a dire oxygen shortage for patients. Read here

Let's look at the global statistics

Global infections: 85,689,897

Change Over Yesterday: 553,311

Global deaths: