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Residents line up for coronavirus tests at tents set up on the streets of Beijing on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Beijing has urged residents not to leave the city during the Lunar New Year holiday in February, implementing new restrictions and mass testings after several coronavirus infections last week. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China renews crackdowns as coronavirus circles back

The place where the coronavirus crisis began -- China -- is back in the spotlight, with a cluster of locally transmitted cases in the northeast and the Lunar New Year prompting the communist government to crack down on travel.

December 28, 2020
In this photo released by Nucleus Network/ABC, Dr. Jason Lickliter, left, chief medical officer of Nucleus Network, talks with a clinical trial participant given a coronavirus vaccine, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, with hopes of releasing a proven vaccine this year. Novavax injected 131 volunteers in the first phase of the trial testing the safety of the vaccine and looking for signs of its effectiveness. (Patrick Rocca/Nucleus Network/ABC via AP) ** FILE **

Novavax launches late-stage vaccine trial

A fifth company on Monday started a late-stage trial of its coronavirus vaccine, as Maryland company Novavax reached phase 3 and potentially added to immunization options next year.

December 28, 2020
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump blasted for coronavirus relief bill ‘switcheroo’

Governors and lawmakers in both parties bemoaned President Trump's "switcheroo" on coronavirus relief and government funding and implored him Sunday to sign the massive bill to avert a federal shutdown and keep economic misery from billowing across the nation.

December 27, 2020
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump to stage rally for David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler

President Trump late Sunday said he will rally in Georgia on Monday on behalf of two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, ahead of races that could determine control of the Senate in the new year.

December 27, 2020
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, President Donald Trump's then-nominee to head the powerful Food and Drug Administration (FDA), speaks during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former FDA chief Gottlieb: UK variant ‘could be here’

Former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday the dreaded "U.K. variant" of the coronavirus is probably circulating in the U.S. but has not been found because Americans aren't tracking mutations as closely as other nations.

December 27, 2020
Long-term care facility resident Frances Watland receives the first COVID-19 vaccination for Oklahoma nursing home residents and staff at The Lodge at Brookline in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman via AP)

Nursing homes focus of coronavirus vaccination program

U.S. officials hope a nursing home vaccination program that began in earnest this week will pump the brakes on a climbing COVID-19 death toll that has afflicted society at large but continues to fall hardest on the frail and elderly, especially those in long-term care.

December 23, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, receives his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

Fauci, Azar get vaccine in public to boost confidence

Anthony Fauci, the media-savvy doctor who oversees vaccine development for the U.S., rolled up his sleeve for the cameras and got his coronavirus shot Tuesday in a bid to boost confidence in an immunization campaign designed to restore normal life.

December 22, 2020
Passengers wearing face mask wait next to the Eurostar Terminal at Gare du Nord train station in Paris, Monday Dec. 21, 2020. France is banning all travel from the U.K. for 48 hours in an attempt to make sure that a new strain of the coronavirus in Britain doesn't reach its shores. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)

U.S. open to Britain regardless of coronavirus variant concerns

The U.S. resisted calls for a British travel ban despite growing alarm Monday over a coronavirus strain in London and southern England that has upended the Christmas season, demoralized Wall Street and prompted dozens of countries to shut out British passengers.

December 21, 2020
Security guard the entrance to the ferry terminal in Dover, England, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, after the Port of Dover was closed and access to the Eurotunnel terminal suspended following the French government's announcement. France banned all travel from the UK for 48 hours from midnight Sunday, including trucks carrying freight through the tunnel under the English Channel or from the port of Dover on England's south coast. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

White House coronavirus team: Britain virus strain not more deadly

A key member of President Trump's vaccine team said it isn't unclear whether a variant of the coronavirus that's forcing countries to ban travel from the U.K. is truly more contagious or if sequencing of the pathogen revealed the extent of a surge in southern England.

December 21, 2020
Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared in Olive Branch, Mississippi, on Sunday. The first boxes are set to arrive Monday. (Associated Press)

Steve Daines: COVID-19 vaccine ‘early Christmas present’ for Americans

The first boxes of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine will arrive in states on Monday, boosting the initial supply of pandemic-fighting shots by 6 million in the coming week after health care workers, Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress received the first wave of Pfizer doses.

December 20, 2020
In this file photo, Army Gen. Gustave Perna, who is leading Operation Warp Speed, right, and Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, listen during at an event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Operation Warp Speed: First Moderna shots to arrive Monday

An Army general on President Trump's coronavirus team said distribution of Moderna's vaccine has "already begun" and took personal responsibility for a mismatch between forecasted shipments of Pfizer's vaccines and what states will receive.

December 19, 2020
In this Monday, July 27, 2020, file photo, Nurse Kathe Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting, of Harpursville, N.Y., an injection of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., in Binghamton, N.Y. The U.S. is poised to give the green light as early as Friday, Dec. 18, to a second COVID-19 vaccine, a critical new weapon against the surging coronavirus. Doses of the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health will give a much-needed boost to supplies as the biggest vaccination effort in the nation’s history continues.(AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

Moderna COVID vaccine cleared by U.S.

The Food and Drug Administration approved Moderna's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for an immediate shipment of 6 million doses on top of the Pfizer vaccine that's already in use.

December 18, 2020