Coronavirus updates: Arizona deemed ‘hot spot of the world’; South Africa buys 1.5M doses of AstraZeneca vaccine; 365K US deaths

USA TODAY is keeping track of the news surrounding COVID-19 as a pair of vaccines join the U.S. fight against a virus that has killed more than 365,000 Americans since the first reported fatality in February.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/01/08/covid-news-arizona-employment-report-coronavirus-vaccine-us-deaths/6587248002/