US treasury secretary says direct payments may start as early as tonight
From CNN s Kevin Liptak
Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin said direct payments to Americans may begin to be deposited as early as tonight.
These would be the $600 payments included in the Covid-19 relief package President Trump signed on Sunday evening.
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Colorado identifies first known case of UK Covid-19 variant in the US
From CNN s Lauren Mascarenhas
Colorado health officials announced the nation’s first known case of the Covid-19 variant originally discovered in the United Kingdom Tuesday.
The Covid-19 variant B.1.1.7 was identified in a Colorado man in his 20s, with no travel history, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis said in a statement Tuesday. Polis said the man is in isolation in Elbert County, and will remain in isolation until cleared by health officials.
Nearly half a million people may have had Covid-19 in Wuhan, study shows That s almost 10 times the official figure
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COVID-19 : Coronavirus infections in Wuhan would be 10 times the official figure: study
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The view from London as the world turns away
Updated 5:30 PM ET, Tue December 22, 2020
People queue outside a Waitrose supermarket in Harrow, London, as new Tier 4 Covid-19 restrictions threaten shop supplies.
We are publishing personal essays from CNN s global staff as they live and cover the story of Covid-19. Nick Paton Walsh is CNN s International Security Editor, based in London.
London (CNN)The days are meant to get longer now. Even if many Britons wish they would not.
Here, we had expected chaos at the end of 2020, but hoped that it would be self-inflicted from the nationalistic roll of the dice at the end of the Brexit transition period, when new trading rules kick in as the UK begins a new relationship with the EU.
Inside a Tehran hospital facing Iran s biggest Covid-19 surge
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