Prime Minister Boris Johnson closed schools and declared a strict national lockdown in England in an attempt to contain a more contagious variant.
A pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital, an “admitted conspiracy theorist,” destroyed 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine because he thought they weren’t safe, police said.
India approved a locally made vaccine, as well as one made by Oxford-AstraZeneca, for emergency use.
In the United States, over 20.7 million people have tested positive and at least 352,397 have died.
The New York Times