Poland will go into a three-week partial lockdown from December 28, with shopping centres and ski slopes closed as well as a travel restriction on New Year's Eve, the health minister said Thursday.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Thursday said he was ready to talk with US President-elect Joe Biden "on any subject" but vowed to protect his country's sovereignty and socialist ideals.
China plans to start opening its vaccination programme to members of the public in southwestern Sichuan province early next year, health officials said, despite the inoculations not yet receiving official approval.
European leaders who had been in recent contact with Emmanuel Macron are self-isolating after the French president tested positive for the coronavirus.
