As UN Secretary General António Guterres said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Maintaining Peace and Stability, in 2020 the level of extreme poverty began to grow throughout the world.

British Ambassador to the United States Karen Pearce said in an interview with Bloomberg that she would not like Russia and China to emerge victorious from the coronavirus pandemic.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said on Wednesday that China will take the necessary measures to protect the legitimate interests of Chinese companies after the US imposed restrictions on 8 Chinese payment applications.

A member of the US House of Representatives, Republican Kevin Brady, who received the first dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in December, said that he was sick with COVID-19.