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Thousands of Donald Trump supporters rallied in Washington on Saturday, with the president making a drive-past in his motorcade as he sticks to discredited claims that mass fraud denied him election victory.
Facing more than 700 new infections per day, the Health Inspectorate's contact tracing team had accumulated a backlog, which is now expected to be resolved with the arrival of new employees.
The latest figures from the Ministry of Health show that 613 new cases of coronavirus were discovered yesterday.
Alain Reuter will take up his post on 25 December 2020.