Welcome to Morning News. It's December 3, Thursday. 11-20 ℃, sunny.

China

1. A new wave of weak cold air will bring the highest temperature in Guangzhou down to 20℃ and the lowest temperature down to 11℃, starting today. It will get warm again until another new wave of cold air moves southward on Dec. 11.  

2. All imported cold-chain products without inspection and quarantine certificate, nucleic acid test reports, disinfection certificates and traceability information will be banned from entering the market, the State Administration for Market Regulation said on Wednesday. 

3. Hong Kong's food safety authority decided on Wednesday to suspend the import of poultry products from Miyazaki Prefecture in Japan due to the bird flu outbreaks there.

4. China's Chang'e-5 probe has completed sampling on the moon, and the samples have been sealed within the spacecraft, the China National Space Administration announced Thursday morning.

5. The Chinese mainland on Wednesday recorded 6 asymptomatic cases and 16 new imported COVID-19 cases, 8 in Shanghai, 4 in Guangdong, 2 in Shandong, and one each in Hubei and Shaanxi.

World

1. The World Health Organization on Wednesday recommended wearing face masks when indoors with other people, if the ventilation has been deemed inadequate, in an update to its COVID-19 guidance on masks.

2. Saudi Arabia's minister of state for foreign affairs criticized Iran's foreign minister for implicating Riyadh in the killing of Iran's top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.

3. France will carry out checks at its borders with Switzerland and Spain to deter its citizens from traveling during the Christmas holidays to ski resorts abroad, which are widely believed to be coronavirus hotspots, Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Wednesday.

4. German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced Wednesday that the federal and state governments have agreed to extend the country's current COVID-19 restriction measures till Jan. 10.

5. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday instructed the government to begin large-scale vaccinations against the coronavirus next week.

6. The UK on Wednesday became the first Western country to approve a COVID-19 vaccine for general use, announcing a rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech's drug from next week.

7. Japan will give free coronavirus vaccines to all of its residents under a bill passed Wednesday, as the nation battles record numbers of daily cases.

Editor: Yuan

Source: Xinhua, China Daily, CGTN, People's Daily APP