BREAKING: Coronavirus Updates From Around the World

(Reuters) - Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:

Singapore

A passenger aboard a Royal Caribbean ‘cruise-to-nowhere’ from Singapore has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing around 2,000 guests to be quarantined in their cabins and the Quantum of the Seas ship to return to dock on Wednesday a day before the end of its planned four-day sailing.

Singapore has been piloting the trips, which are open only to residents, make no stops and sail in waters just off the city-state. Confirming the positive test, Royal Caribbean said in a statement that all guests and crew who had close contact with the infected guest have subsequently tested negative for the virus.

United States of America (U.S.)

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday laid out his plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic during his first 100 days in office, saying his administration would vaccinate 100 million Americans, push to reopen schools and strengthen mask mandates.

U.S. coronavirus cases crossed the 15 million mark on Tuesday as the pandemic killed 15,000 Americans in the last week alone. Meanwhile, regulators moved a step closer to approving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released documents that raised no new issues about its safety or efficacy.

South Korea

South Korea reported 686 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday as it battles a third wave of infection that is threatening to overwhelm its medical system. The daily tally was the second-highest since the start of the pandemic, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). New cases have been consistently around 600 over the past week.

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