The death toll from the emerging corona virus in the world is close to two hundred thousand deaths, and at a time when the World Health Organization called for the acceleration of the production of vaccines to combat the epidemic, a Chinese company said it had produced a vaccine that proved very effective in protecting monkeys for the first time.

The total confirmed cases of Covid-19 disease caused by the emerging coronavirus around the world were about 2.8 million, of which approximately 196,000 had died and 789,000 recovered, according to the statistics compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

The Chinese pharmaceutical giant Sinovac said it had produced a vaccine that provided "great protection" for monkeys from infection during experiments.

The company stated that it had injected eight monkeys with the vaccine and then exposed them to the virus three weeks later, but none of them was infected.

The experiment included four other monkeys who were not injected with the vaccine, who were infected and suffered from acute pneumonia.

Senovac published the findings on a private site on April 19, three days after it began testing the vaccine in humans, but the global scientific community has yet to review these results.

The spokeswoman Yang Guang told Agence France-Presse that the tests showed "good efficacy" and that the company is confident of the potential of this vaccine.

For his part, US virologist Florian Kramer said on Twitter that Senovac provided "the first serious data on the pre-clinical stage of a possible vaccine."

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Meanwhile, the World Health Organization launched an initiative to accelerate the production of vaccines and treatments for the virus. The Director General, Tedros Adhanom, said that the aim of this collective move is to ensure that everyone has access to various appropriate anti-virus drugs.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres called for putting political disputes and differences aside in the battle with the virus.

America .. A significant drop in deaths
A total of 1,258 additional deaths from the new Corona virus were recorded in the last 24 hours, with the daily toll being the lowest in nearly three weeks, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The university announced that the total number of deaths in the states due to the virus exceeded 52,000, and the number of infections exceeded 890,000.

Among these cases is about 100,000 people infected with coronary disease in New Jersey, making it the second most affected state of the epidemic after New York.

US destroyer destroying US
authorities announced the registration of 18 cases of corona virus on board the destroyer "Kid". The Naval Command said that it was assessing the extent of the outbreak among the crew of the destroyer and had asked it to return to its bases.

The crew of the destroyer, 350 people, was on a mission in the Pacific Ocean. It is the second US naval vessel to have the virus circulating after the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt.

The American destroyer "Kid" (Reuters)

On the other hand, officials said that the Navy leadership on Friday recommended to the Minister of Defense to return the aircraft carrier commander Theodore Roosevelt to his work, three weeks after he was relieved of his post due to the leak of a message he sent to the Navy leadership demanding stronger measures to combat the spread of the virus between sailors.

The Pentagon said in a statement that Secretary Mark Esber will "thoroughly review" the navy's initial investigation into the Corona virus outbreak on board the aircraft carrier, and then meet with naval leaders to discuss next steps.

Warnings and tests
In the course of talking about treatments, the US Food and Drug Administration warned against using hydroxychloroquine to treat corona outside hospitals. She said that there is currently no licensed treatment for those infected with the virus.

President Donald Trump announced that the Food and Drug Administration had agreed to use the first home-based test to detect infection with the Coronavirus.

He stressed that there is no drug so far against the Corona virus, noting that his country is carrying out numerous tests to use antibodies against the deadly virus.

Trump retracted his statements about injecting sterile patients with sterile, antiseptic and cleansing materials as a possible treatment, saying that he was speaking with irony at the time, and the president's response came after his statements caused widespread surprise and experts were amazed.

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Trump said during his daily press briefing on Thursday that scientists should explore whether shedding rays penetrate the bodies of people infected with the virus or injected with antiseptic material may help in the treatment of respiratory disease caused by the virus.

In a related context, a crisis cell official announced that five million citizens have been tested for Corona virus in various states.

The cell confirmed that 72 experiments had been conducted on different anti-viral drugs, adding, "We are doing tests to use antibodies against corona."

Britain .. plasma experiments
are being conducted to determine whether blood plasma obtained from donors recovering from Covid-19 disease can be an effective treatment for patients in a serious condition of this disease.

The Ministry of Health said today, Saturday, that up to five thousand patients can be treated with blood plasma every week, as part of a new method to treat the virus.

The plasma from Covid-19 patients can be transferred to patients struggling to produce antibodies against the virus inside their bodies.

Belgium ... gradually opening
stores and schools will gradually reopen, beginning May 11 and May 18, respectively, according to what Prime Minister Sophie Wilms announced Friday evening, at a time when quarantine measures have been in effect since mid-March in an attempt to curb the spread of the emerging Corona virus. .

And this country with a population of 11.5 million people counted as of Friday more than 44 thousand confirmed cases of the virus and about 6979 deaths, and the spread of Covid-19 has slowed, but the virus has not disappeared, according to Willms.

New infections in China
Data from the National Health Commission showed today 12 new cases of coronavirus recorded on April 24, compared to six cases the day before.

Of these new cases, 11 were from abroad, compared to two the previous day.

The commission also announced 29 new cases of undiagnosed persons, slightly regressing the outcome of the previous day, which amounted to 34, of which four were from abroad.

In Africa,
in Nigeria, the number of people infected with the new coronavirus, according to the government's Center for Disease Control, increased to 1095, and the number of deaths reached 32 cases, from the outbreak of the virus in the country until Friday.

In Morocco, statistics released by the Ministry of Health reported Friday evening, 190 new cases of HIV infection were registered within 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 3758 cases.

On Friday, the Tunisian Ministry of Health announced that the number of Corona virus infections has increased to 922, after four new confirmed cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.