Latest updates: only 2.6 million Americans inoculated when target was 20 million by end of 2020; London mayor seeking urgent clarification on schools * Schools chaos as 21m more people in England face toughest Covid curbs * See all our coronavirus coverage 2.49pm GMT The GREEK prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has elected to spend the last day of the year on Lesbos, site of the ongoing refugee drama amidst the pandemic. The island - and other eastern Aegean outposts – is among the ten top regions in Greece with the highest coronavirus caseloads. We had said we would close Moria. Of course we didn’t expect it to close in the way it did but it finally did close and it was for the best,” said Mitsotakis describing the facility as a vast improvement on Moria. We had made the joint decision with the president of the European Commission to find a [new] location that local actors would agree on – or at least most would agree with - and I am happy that this has been achieved … so we can move ahead with a permanent structure, that will be much better than this.” 2.41pm GMT Case rates in ENGLAND remain highest among 30- to 39-year-olds, Public Health England said. The rate in this age group stood at 557.5 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to 27 December, up week-on-week from 495.4. Continue reading...
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