Covid update: China jails citizen journalist; India new year’s eve curbs
Updated on Dec 29, 2020 12:34 am IST
From the Indian government identifying 10 laboratories to monitor virus mutations and strains, to the Serum Institute of India commenting on vaccine production - here are the top news updates on the Covid-19 pandemic. India's financial capital Mumbai will deploy 35,000 police personnel on New Year's Eve to ensure Covid precautions are followed. In international news, a Chinese court jailed a citizen journalist - a former lawyer - for reporting on the pandemic from Wuhan in February 2020. Wuhan is the original epicentre of the Covid outbreak. Russia is hoping to launch trials of a new antibody-based treatment in autumn 2021. Watch the full video for the other updates on the spread of the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus.
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