1. Facebook has announced that it will freeze Trump’s account “indefinitely” on Facebook and its social media platform Photo Wall until a peaceful transition of power is completed. “President Trump intends to use the rest of his term to undermine the peaceful and legitimate transition of power,” Facebook CEO Ma Zuckerberg wrote on the Facebook platform on the 7th. ” Zuckerberg said it would be “too risky” to allow the president to continue to use Facebook in the meantime.
2. [World Health Organization (WHO)] in 2021, the world has new tools such as vaccines to deal with the epidemic in COVID-19, but it is also faced with new challenges such as virus mutation. More than 230 million people in Europe are currently living in the national blockade, and some countries will announce the blockade in the coming weeks. The infection rate of COVID-19 in more than 1/4 of European countries is very high, and the health care system is under great pressure.
3. [food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations] Global food prices rose for the seventh month in a row, driven by dairy and vegetable oil prices. In December 2020, the global food price index averaged 107.5 points, up 2.2 per cent from the previous month. The average was 97.9 points in 2020, a three-year high, up 3.1% from 2019, but below the peak of 131.9 in 2011.
4. In 2020, the number of international tourists arriving in Italy decreased by 78 million, the number of tourists decreased by 240 million, and the number of Italian citizens traveling abroad decreased by 36 million. Italian tourism has gone back to where it was 30 years ago.
5. As of January 9, 13 platforms have taken measures to block or restrict Trump and his related accounts, according to US media Axios. Including Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, TikTok, Ins and so on. Most of the reasons are the promotion and promotion of violence and hatred on their related accounts. 
6. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States reported on the 8th that there were more than 300000 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, reaching 314093, setting a new record since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States. California is the “hardest hit area” of the recent epidemic in the United States, with an average daily increase of nearly 40,000 cases in the past 7 days. Some public health experts worry that the recent riots in the US Congress in Washington may trigger novel coronavirus’s “super communication” incident. 
7. Dr. Mahajan, University of California, Los Angeles: the intensive care unit in the Los Angeles area is overloaded, but the surge in COVID-19 cases caused by holiday travel is “not yet here.” The epidemic in Southern California is worrying at this stage, and intensive care units in hospitals are fully saturated even before traditional holidays. The peak of the epidemic is likely to occur two to three weeks after the end of the traditional holiday, which hospitals may not be able to cope with.
8. Serbian Prime Minister Burnabic said that the Serbian government has reached an agreement to buy 8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, including the Chinese vaccine, and hopes to complete the national vaccination in May and June. If all goes well, Serbia may become the first country in Europe to complete vaccination. 
9. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: House Democrats will propose a resolution asking Vice President Pence to use the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to remove President Trump. If Pence refuses, the House of Representatives will press ahead with the process of impeaching Trump. According to a new joint poll by ABC and Ipsos, up to 56% of Americans approve of Trump being impeached before the end of his term. 
10. Since the outbreak, global debt levels have soared, rising by $17 trillion to $275 trillion in 2020, unprecedented since the outbreak. The ratio of global government debt to GDP rose from 90 per cent in 2019 to nearly 105 per cent in 2020. Economic stimulus has played a role, but it has also brought challenges such as financial and budgetary imbalances. The global economy could be saddled with record debt in 2021, dragging down prospects for recovery.

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Post time: Jan-12-2021