World Coronavirus Dispatch: China tells flight cabin crew to wear diapers

Thailand to reopen to the outside world next year, Doctors say vaccines pose potential side effects, German deaths rise most since start of outbreak, and other pandemic-related news across the world

Russia’s regions hit hard by second wave

The spiralling coronavirus infection rate across Russia’s nine time zones has aroused anger among many previously apathetic Russians, at what they say is authorities’ inability to cope with the pandemic. Russia has recorded more Covid-19 cases than all but three countries, setting a new daily record of 29,093 on Sunday. The second wave has been particularly hard on Russia’s regions, which account for 70 per cent of active coronavirus cases and mostly lack the modern health infrastructure of Moscow. Read here

Let's look at the global statistics

Global infections: 68,956,116