Hyderabad:The coronavirus pandemic has infected more than 8,02,59,245 and killed over 17,58,759 people across the world. More than 5,65,21,955 people have recovered so far.
The US is the worst-hit nation with cases more than 1,92,10,166 and fatalities over 3,38,263.
US President Donald Trump spent his Christmas golfing in Florida as a government shutdown looms and COVID relief hangs in the balance.
Trump, at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for the holidays, had no events on his public schedule after throwing the future of a massive COVID relief and government funding bill into question. Failure to sign the bill, which arrived in Florida on Thursday night, could deny relief checks to millions of Americans on the brink and force a government shutdown in the midst of the pandemic.
France has registered the first case of the new strain of the coronavirus that had been firstly detected in the United Kingdom, French media reported.