Live updates: Global COVID-19 deaths pass 2 million mark

Confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide have topped 94 million, with over 2 million deaths and more than 51 million recoveries, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University.

Here is the latest:

TheChinese mainland recorded 109 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, including 96 locally transmitted ones.

An international expert team from the World Health Organization is now in central China's Wuhan to conduct joint research with Chinese scientists.

Los Angeles has become the first **U.S. **county to report over 1 million COVID-19 cases, according to state health officials. U.S. CDC warned that

a new coronavirus variant first identified in the UK could become the dominant strain in the U.S. by March.

The** UK **will close alltravel corridors from Monday, meaning everyone arriving in the country will have to self-isolate.

On Saturday, **India **launched one of the world's largest vaccination campaigns.