Coronavirus live news: global weekly cases lowest since October; Biden to pledge $4bn to Covax scheme

WHO urges against letting guard down; fifth of Australians unlikely to get vaccine; Israel extends coronavirus border closure

Reported daily coronavirus infections have been falling across the world for a month and on Tuesday hit their lowest since mid-October, figures that suggest the seasonality of the virus show.

Reuters: But optimism over a way out of the crisis has been tempered by new variants of the virus, raising fears about the efficacy of vaccines, Reuters reports.

Hello and welcome to today’s blow-by-blow of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.

There’s a fair bit of good news around today (but the WHO has warned us not to let down our guard): The weekly average coronavirus infections have fallen to the lowest level since October, according to Johns Hopkins University figures, and Joe Biden has pledged US$4bn to the Covax scheme, which is meant to ensure access to coronavirus vaccines for people in poor countries.

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