The Guardian: Coronavirus live news: England begins lockdown as Russia, Poland, Austria, Switzerland see record case rises

Latvia and Estonia also confirm record one-day infections; Cyprus introduces night-time curfew; England’s lockdown begins.

• Russia, Poland, Austria, Switzerland see record daily cases
• Rich states’ Covid deals ‘may deprive poor of vaccine for years’
• Turkey resists calls for tougher measures to tackle case surge
• Denmark plans to cull 15m mink over Covid mutation fears
• Jordan suffers Covid surge after early success against virus
• UK Covid death toll rises by nearly 400 in a day

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At least six European nations have seen record case rises in the last 24 hours. Russia, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, Latvia and Estonia each confirmed their highest new infections to date.

Russia, which has the fourth-highest cases in the world, added over 18,000 new infections on Wednesday, bringing its total to 1,680,579, according to Johns Hopkins University.

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