San francisco consulate. Boris johnson goes to scotland as a polling shows rising support for scottish independence. We start with the World Health Organization which has released the latest coronavirus figures. Heres the director general. tx sot more than 50 million cases of covid 19 have now been reported to who. Almost 620,000. We continue to see intense transmission in a small group of countries. Almost 10 million cases, 01 countries. Almost 10 million cases, or two thirds of places globally are from ten countries, and almost half of all cases reported so far are from just three countries. One of those countries is brazil. With more than 2. 2 million confirmed infections, it has the second worst outbreak after the united states. And brazil has just registered a Record Number of new cases with 67,000 confirmed cases in the past 2a hours. There were almost 1,300 deaths in that same period. The virus is now affecting smaller towns and remote areas with fewer medical facilities in braz
China s Tianwen-1 captures video of Mars two days after it enters the planet s orbit
Chinese scientists hope to land a 240-kilogram rover in May in Utopia, a massive impact basin on Mars. Its orbiter will last for a Martian year.
Feb 15, 2021 14:05:41 IST
China s space agency released video footage from its spacecraft circling Mars on Friday, two days after it successfully entered the planet s orbit in Beijing s latest ambitious space mission. In the video, published by state broadcaster CCTV, the surface of the planet is seen coming into view out of a pitch-black sky against the outside of the Tianwen-1, which entered the orbit of the Red Planet on Wednesday. White craters are visible on the planet s surface, which fades from white to black through the video as the probe flies over the course of one Martian day, said official news agency Xinhua.