## [2022-01-10](/feed/2022/01/10/index.md)

##### 2022 College Football Playoff National Championship
### [In American football, Georgia defeats Alabama to win the national championship, its first since 1980. ](/feed/2022/01/10/in-american-football-georgia-defeats-alabama-to-win-the-national-championship-its-first-since-1980.md)
##### Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports
### [The Federal Court of Australia orders that Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic be released from immigration detention and allowed to compete in the Australian Open in order to defend his Championship, and also orders the federal government to pay Djokovic's legal fees. ](/feed/2022/01/10/the-federal-court-of-australia-orders-that-serbian-tennis-player-novak-djokovic-be-released-from-immigration-detention-a.md)
##### Xenotransplantation
### [Doctors at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, successfully transplant a pig heart into a human patient for the first time. ](/feed/2022/01/10/doctors-at-the-university-of-maryland-baltimore-successfully-transplant-a-pig-heart-into-a-human-patient-for-the-first.md)
##### Peoples Gazette
### [The "Peoples Gazette", a Nigerian online newspaper, claims that it has been raided by the National Intelligence Agency. ](/feed/2022/01/10/the-peoples-gazette-a-nigerian-online-newspaper-claims-that-it-has-been-raided-by-the-national-intelligence-agency.md)
##### 2021–2022 social unrest in the French West Indies
### [Roadblocks are set up by demonstrators and stones are thrown at the police in Basse-Terre. ](/feed/2022/01/10/roadblocks-are-set-up-by-demonstrators-and-stones-are-thrown-at-the-police-in-basse-terre.md)
##### Russia–United States relations
### [Russia and the U.S. begin a series of talks in Geneva in an effort to defuse tensions between both countries as well as tensions with Ukraine. ](/feed/2022/01/10/russia-and-the-us-begin-a-series-of-talks-in-geneva-in-an-effort-to-defuse-tensions-between-both-countries-as-well-as.md)
##### COVID-19 pandemic
### [Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says that the company will develop a COVID-19 vaccine to target the Omicron variant by March. ](/feed/2022/01/10/pfizer-ceo-albert-bourla-says-that-the-company-will-develop-a-covid-19-vaccine-to-target-the-omicron-variant-by-march.md)
### [Uganda reopens schools for the first time since March 2020 after a nearly two year closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ](/feed/2022/01/10/uganda-reopens-schools-for-the-first-time-since-march-2020-after-a-nearly-two-year-closure-due-to-the-covid-19-pandemic.md)
### [Italy restricts the access of public transport, coffee shops, gyms, and many other activities to people who have been vaccinated or has been recovered from COVID-19 amid the surge of the COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant. ](/feed/2022/01/10/italy-restricts-the-access-of-public-transport-coffee-shops-gyms-and-many-other-activities-to-people-who-have-been-va.md)
### [Chile begins administering second booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to people who are most vulnerable to COVID-19, including immunocompromised people, becoming the first country in Latin America to do so. ](/feed/2022/01/10/chile-begins-administering-second-booster-doses-of-the-covid-19-vaccine-to-people-who-are-most-vulnerable-to-covid-19-i.md)
### [Australia surpasses one million cases of COVID-19. ](/feed/2022/01/10/australia-surpasses-one-million-cases-of-covid-19.md)
### [New South Wales reports a record for the second consecutive day of 18 deaths from COVID-19, thereby bringing the statewide death toll to 745. ](/feed/2022/01/10/new-south-wales-reports-a-record-for-the-second-consecutive-day-of-18-deaths-from-covid-19-thereby-bringing-the-statewi.md)
### [Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador tests positive for COVID-19 for the second time. ](/feed/2022/01/10/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-tests-positive-for-covid-19-for-the-second-time.md)
### [The Ontario government says that the province will resume in-person learning for students by January 17. ](/feed/2022/01/10/the-ontario-government-says-that-the-province-will-resume-in-person-learning-for-students-by-january-17.md)
### [The Philippines reports a record for the third consecutive day of 28,707 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 2,998,530. ](/feed/2022/01/10/the-philippines-reports-a-record-for-the-third-consecutive-day-of-28707-new-cases-of-covid-19-thereby-bringing-the-nat.md)
### [Nepal bans mass public gatherings of more than 25 people, closes schools until January 29 and mandates proof of vaccination in order to enter hotels, parks, restaurants, cinema halls, and public office beginning on January 21 due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases. ](/feed/2022/01/10/nepal-bans-mass-public-gatherings-of-more-than-25-people-closes-schools-until-january-29-and-mandates-proof-of-vaccinat.md)
### [The Indonesian Drug and Food Control Agency issues an emergency use authorization of five COVID-19 vaccines as booster dose, namely Pfizer–BioNTech, AstraZeneca, CoronaVac, and Zifivax's ZF2001 for one dose, and half dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. ](/feed/2022/01/10/the-indonesian-drug-and-food-control-agency-issues-an-emergency-use-authorization-of-five-covid-19-vaccines-as-booster-d.md)
### [India begins administering COVID-19 vaccine booster doses for high-risk individuals, such as healthcare workers and people over the age of 60 with comorbidities. ](/feed/2022/01/10/india-begins-administering-covid-19-vaccine-booster-doses-for-high-risk-individuals-such-as-healthcare-workers-and-peop.md)
##### 2022 East London floods
### [Ten people are killed and hundreds more are left homeless due to floods in East London, South Africa, as poorly built homes are swept away, especially in Mdantsane just outside the city. ](/feed/2022/01/10/ten-people-are-killed-and-hundreds-more-are-left-homeless-due-to-floods-in-east-london-south-africa-as-poorly-built-ho.md)
##### United States Mint
### [The United States Mint announces that they have started shipping the first coins of the American Women quarters program. American poet Maya Angelou will become the first African American woman to be featured on a U.S. quarter. ](/feed/2022/01/10/the-united-states-mint-announces-that-they-have-started-shipping-the-first-coins-of-the-american-women-quarters-program.md)
##### Yemeni civil war
### [The pro-Yemeni government militia Giants Brigades say that they are in "full control" of the Shabwah Governorate after ten days of fighting Houthi forces. ](/feed/2022/01/10/the-pro-yemeni-government-militia-giants-brigades-say-that-they-are-in-full-control-of-the-shabwah-governorate-after-t.md)
##### 2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis
### [Ukrainian authorities arrest an alleged Russian intelligence agent who they claim attempted to recruit others to launch attacks in the port city of Odessa. ](/feed/2022/01/10/ukrainian-authorities-arrest-an-alleged-russian-intelligence-agent-who-they-claim-attempted-to-recruit-others-to-launch.md)
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