The Guardian: Coronavirus live news: countries scramble to secure vaccine doses as US sees record hospitalisations

UK reports highest deaths since May; Brazil cases pass 5.7m; US sees record hospitalisations

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12.33am GMT

In more vaccine news:

Australia could have its doses of the Pfizer treatment as early as March.

I’m also delighted to announce that the government has secured as part of its agreement with Pfizer, full cold chain logistics, distribution for the Pfizer vaccine.

It’s what you call an mRNA vaccine, we have 10m units of that, part of a 134.8m unit, four-vaccine strategy …

12.19am GMT

The Unites States has confirmed more than 100,000 cases per day – a 24 hour total not seen by any other country – every day for the last week, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.

A tenth of the country’s 10m case total were added since the start of November, alone.

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