COVID-19 updates: Anti-vaccine protesters halt vaccinations at Dodger Stadium
Demonstrators carrying anti-mask and anti-vaccine signs blocked the entrance.
A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 102.5 million people worldwide and killed over 2.2 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
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- Anti-vaccine protesters halt vaccinations at Dodger Stadium
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- Brazil variant detected in California
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- COVID-19 vaccinations won't be required for Tokyo Olympics, organizers say
Kamala Harris gets 2nd vaccine dose
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, while wearing two face masks, received her second COVID-19 vaccine dose on Tuesday at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Harris described the shot as "relatively painless," adding, "We’re going to get 100 million vaccinations in 100 days."
"I want to urge everyone to take the vaccine when it is your turn," she said.
Harris' husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, also received his second vaccine dose Tuesday.
UK variant gains ground in Netherlands
The Netherlands is battling two epidemics of the novel coronavirus: one against its existing variants, in which cases are declining, and "another epidemic involving the U.K. variant, in which infections are increasing," the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment said in a situation report released Tuesday.
The so-called U.K. variant, first identified in England last September, has caused a massive jump in COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
In the Netherlands, government officials said they were "gravely concerned about the U.K. variant." Over the weekend they introduced a nighttime curfew which has sparked riots.
Over the last two weeks, the Netherlands has reported an 11.7% positivity rate for COVID-19 tests.
ABC News’ Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.
Global case count climbs over 100 million
The worldwide number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 surpassed 100 million on Tuesday, according to real-time data collected by Johns Hopkins University. The United States accounts for over 25 million of those cases.
For perspective, only 14 countries in the world have populations over 100 million, according to the latest data from the World Bank Group.
The grim milestone comes just over one year since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Wuhan, China, on Dec. 31, 2019.
COVID-19 deaths in UK top 100,000
The number of people who have died from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom has surpassed 100,000, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Tuesday.
"It's hard to compute the sorrow contained in that grim statistic," Johnson said.
More than 35,000 people in the U.K. are hospitalized with COVID-19, which is "substantially" above the peak in April, according to Johnson.
The number of people testing positive for the disease remains high but is decreasing slowly, with 20,089 new cases reported Tuesday, according to Johnson.
ABC News’ Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.