Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the end of the "most acute period" of the coronavirus pandemic. In his opinion, the peak of the pandemic will end in a few months.

At least eight people were killed by an oxygen machine explosion at a hospital in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, Anadolu news agency reported on Saturday, December 19.

Chinese authorities are starting work on vaccination against the coronavirus among the population at risk, said Zeng Yixin, deputy head of China's state health committee.