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December 31, 2021
(
2021-12-31
)
(Friday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Health and environment
- COVID-19 pandemic
- COVID-19 pandemic in Asia
- COVID-19 pandemic in North America
- COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
- COVID-19 pandemic in France
- Paris
begins to implement mandatory
outdoor mask wearing
for people over the age of 11 years. This comes as
France
reports a substantial increase in new cases of the Omicron variant nationwide.
(France 24)
- France reports a record 232,200 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which is also the highest daily total recorded in any European nation since the beginning of the pandemic.
(
Arab News
)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Cyprus
- Cyprus
reports a record for the fifth consecutive day of 5,048 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 166,827.
(In-Cyprus)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Greece
- Greece
reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 40,560 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 1,170,293.
(Greek Reporter)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Italy
- Italy
reports a record for the fourth consecutive day of 144,243 new cases of COVID-19.
(ANSA)
- COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
,
COVID-19 drug development
- COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
- New Zealand
moves COVID-19 traffic light settings for
Auckland
from red to orange, allowing bars, restaurants and cafes that enforce the
vaccine pass
requirement to remove crowd size limits and requirements to sit down, despite fears of community transmission of the Omicron variant.
(
The Guardian
)
- COVID-19 pandemic in Niger