As COVID infections rise this winter, the White House is restarting its free home COVID test program as part of its new winter plan to head off infections during the holidays and beyond.

China is racing to prepare its citizens for another wave of COVID-19. Authorities are moving to vaccinate the country's most vulnerable.

And Iran is sentencing 400 people involved with the demonstrations against the government to jail terms of up to 10 years for participating in the protests.

We cover all this and more during the News Roundup.

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