Spain declared a national state of emergency Sunday and a curfew for the entire country except the Canary Islands to curb a second wave of coronavirus cases.
Colombia on Saturday surpassed the benchmark of one million cases of Covid-19 registered in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, the health ministry announced.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a deal Friday to procure 76 million doses of the first made-in-Canada Covid-19 vaccine candidate, enough for the entire population if it proves effective.
Democrat Joe Biden said Friday that if elected president he would mandate Covid-19 vaccines be free for all Americans, part of a national strategy to "get ahead" of the coronavirus.
A record of nearly 80,000 new Covid-19 infections over the course of a day were reported in the United States on Friday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
