Summary
- India overtakes Brazil in the number of infections recorded, and is now second only to the US
- India recorded more than 90,000 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours
- Here in the UK, almost 3,000 people tested positive on Sunday – the highest daily total since May
- Australia secures almost 85m doses of a vaccine to be rolled out next year if trials prove successful
- Tokyo Olympics will go ahead next year “with or without Covid”, the vice-president of the International Olympic Committee says
- Globally more than 27 million cases and 883,000 deaths have been confirmed, according to Johns Hopkins University
