Here is the COVID-19 summary for Monday.
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Monday
France began vaccinating people over 75.
In Europe, France on Monday began a campaign to inoculate people over 75 against the coronavirus, as its death toll rose past 70,000 over the weekend.
The UK variant of the virus is taking hold in Belgium, with cases being reported in several schools and a nursing home.
The new variant of COVID-19 first detected in Britain is now starting to gain a foothold in Belgium, officials say, with cases reported in several northern schools on top of an outbreak in a nursing home.
In St. Moritz Switzerland, guests and employees at 2 luxury hotels are being quarantined, ski schools are being closed, and children are being kept at home following an outbreak there.
Officials in the Swiss mountain resort of St. Moritz quarantined employees and guests of two luxury hotels, closed ski schools and kept schoolchildren home from class on Monday after a dozen positive tests for a highly infectious coronavirus variant.
The outbreak in Hebei province in China continues to make the news as restrictions are tightened further. Few details are available, but the outbreak in this province which surrounds Beijing has been repeatedly reported on and so may be serious.
In Asia, a Chinese province grappling with a spike in coronavirus cases is reinstating tight restrictions on weddings, funerals and other family gatherings, threatening violators with criminal charges.
The notice from the high court in Hebei province did not give specifics but said all types of social gatherings were now being regulated to prevent further spread of the virus.
In the US, California has now topped 3 million cases, having reached 2 million only as recently as Christmas. They have had nearly 34,000 deaths so far.
In the Americas, California became the first U.S. state on Monday to record more than 3 million known COVID-19 infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. California only reached 2 million reported cases on Dec. 24 and has the highest count of any state. Nearly 34,000 deaths in the state have been attributed to the novel coronavirus.
Also in the US, they expect to see another 100,000 deaths in the next 5 weeks.
Incoming White House chief of staff Ron Klain says the coronavirus pandemic will get worse in the U.S. before it gets better, projecting another 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the first five weeks of president-elect Joe Biden's administration.
Brazil have approved the use of both the Sinovac CoronaVac (from China) and Oxford-AstraZenica vaccines. They have 6 million doses of the CoronaVac and 2 million doses of the Oxford vaccine already in Brazil awaiting this approval.
Brazil's health regulator on Sunday approved the urgent use of coronavirus vaccines made by Sinovac and AstraZeneca, enabling Latin America's largest nation to begin an immunization program that's been subject to months of delay and political disputes.
Brazil currently has six million doses of Sinovac's CoronaVac vaccine ready to distribute in the next few days and is awaiting the arrival of another two million doses of the vaccine made by AstraZeneca and partner Oxford University.
South Africa, who have not received any vaccines yet, say they have arranged for the supply of 9 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. There was no news on when this vaccine will actually be delivered there, and this vaccine will not be ready anywhere until March. According to other news reports it will be produced by subcontractors, one of whom is in South Africa. This is a one shot vaccine, so 6 million doses will cover 6 million people.
In Africa, South Africa, which has yet to receive its first coronavirus vaccine, has been promised nine million doses by Johnson & Johnson, the Business Day newspaper reported.