The number of people infected with the coronavirus in the US rose by more than 150 thousand on Sunday, bringing the country’s total to over 19 million. Reporting and data anomalies are expected during the next few weeks because of the winter holidays, according to the Covid Tracking Project. At the same time, more than 1,200 people died from the disease on Sunday, bringing the total to more than 333 thousand. Hospitalizations due to Covid-19 rose back above 118,000, of which 22,447 are in intensive care units. Meantime, President Trump finally signed a pandemic-aid bill, ending a standoff with Congress and opening the way for millions of Americans to get economic relief. Elsewhere, Mexico became the first country in Latin America to begin vaccinating its citizens while Novavax announced it is starting a new clinical trial of up to 30,000 people in the US and Mexico to test whether its experimental Covid-19 vaccine safely protects people from the disease. source: World Health Organization