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A secret military program that began in January would have used
Burmese
soldiers
to test, without their consent,
an unapproved vaccine
, according to Army sources and the Burmese agency Myanmar Now has published.
These members of the Burmese Army reportedly received doses of a Covaxin vaccine against the
coronavirus
, produced by the Indian pharmaceutical company Bahrat Biotech.
These practices started in January and lasted for three more months.
According to the Army report, these soldiers were inoculated with the dose of the vaccine without their consent and without the knowledge that this vaccine was still
in the third phase of clinical trials.
"They said they were going to vaccinate us and then they would check our immunity two weeks after the vaccination to see if it had increased. So you could say it was a test," said an Army official.
Reports Europa Press.
The data of the coronavirus in Spain
Total figures
: 4,770,453 confirmed coronavirus cases with a diagnostic test for active infection;
There have been 83,136 deaths with a positive test as of August 20.
770,412 in Andalusia (10,514 dead)
155,376 in Aragon (3,685 dead)
69,588 in Asturias (2,043 dead)
93,485 in the Balearic Islands (894 dead)
89,866 in the Canary Islands (902
dead)
43,381 in Cantabria (590 dead)
226,141 in Castilla-La Mancha (6,074 dead)
290,904 in Castilla y León (7,098 dead)
880,728 in Catalonia (15,062 dead)
6,966 in Ceuta (121 dead)
493,518 in the Valencian Community (7,577 dead)
96,614 in Extremadura (1,854 dead)
177,071 in Galicia (2,519 dead)
863,791 in Madrid (15,754 dead)
10,281 in Melilla (99 dead)
134,994 in Murcia (1,659 dead)
80,366 in Navarra (1,206 dead)
248,694 in the Basque Country (4,673 dead)
38,277 in La Rioja (812 dead)
12.12 Bolsonaro fined for the sixth time for failing to comply with sanitary measures by not wearing a mask
The State Health Surveillance has fined the president of Brazil,
Jair Bolsonaro
,
this Saturday
for the sixth time since June after failing to comply with the health regulations of the mandatory use of a mask during a visit to
Sao Paulo
.
Over the last two days, Bolsonaro has visited four cities in the Ribera Valley and received a different fine in three of them for repeated practices of "lack of respect" for sanitary restrictions.
11.53 Burma uses its soldiers as guinea pigs to test a Covid vaccine without their consent
A secret military program that began in January would have used
Burmese
soldiers
to test, without their consent,
an unapproved vaccine
, according to Army sources and the Burmese agency Myanmar Now has published.
These members of the Burmese Army reportedly received doses of a Covaxin vaccine against the
coronavirus
, produced by the Indian pharmaceutical company Bahrat Biotech.
These practices started in January and lasted for three more months.
11.50 They evict 500 people in Llanes and 400 in Ribadesella to avoid crowds after the closure of bars
The Civil Guard and the Local Police have evicted about 500 people from the urban area of
Llanes (Asturias)
to avoid crowds after the closing hours of nightlife.
On the other hand, in
Ribadesella
400 people were evicted and
two bottles of 200 people were dissolved
on the beach and promenade of
Luanco
.
11.11 The US Drug Agency will approve Pfizer's vaccine on Monday
Drug Agency (FDA, for its acronym in English) has planned to
give full approval to the vaccine against the
coronavirus
of
Pfizer
on Monday, reports the
New York Times
.
Read the complete information in THE WORLD.
11.07 Epidemic data continue to improve in Catalonia
The epidemic data of the
fifth wave of Covid-19
continues to improve in
Catalonia
.
Hospital admissions remain stable, while there have been seven deaths in the last 24 hours compared to 31 on Saturday.
These seven new deaths bring the official death toll in
Catalonia
to 23,222 since the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020.
11.05 They evict 5,500 people in Barcelona on the first Saturday night without a curfew
The
Mossos d'Esquadra
and the
Guardia Urbana
have evicted some 5,500 people in various parts of
Barcelona
in
the night of this Saturday, especially in squares and streets of the Gracia neighborhood on the occasion of the main festival.
As reported by police sources, during this past night - the first Saturday of recent weeks without a curfew in Barcelona - the Mossos and the Urban Guard have evicted some 4,000 people in the
Gracia neighborhood
, about a thousand on the
beach of Sant Miquel
and about 500 in the
Born
.
10.53 More than 211 million people have already been infected with coronavirus worldwide since the pandemic began
More than 211.24 million people have reported being infected with
coronavirus
worldwide and 4.5 million have died from this disease, according to Reuters data.
In total, more than 210 countries have reported Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began in December 2019.
10.42 UK to start offering Covid antibody tests to the general public next week
As reported by the British media this Sunday and Reuters reports, the
United Kingdom
will begin to offer
Covid-19
antibody
tests
to the general public next week.
Thus, as of Tuesday, anyone over 18 years of age who resides in England, Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland will be able to sign up for this program to take an
antibody test
when a PCR is done and it is positive, according to Sky News. .
In this way, participants who test positive for Covid-19 will receive two finger prick tests that can be done at home to see if they have antibodies or not.
They will then have to inform the UK Health Security Agency of the result.
The objective of the Government is to obtain information on how antibodies behave in infected with different strains of coronavirus.
10.15 Colombia announces that it will receive a Spanish donation of 160,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice President of
Colombia
, Marta Lucía Ramírez, announced this Saturday that Spain will donate 160,000 doses of the
AstraZeneca
laboratory vaccine to the Latin American country
.
Ramírez thanked his Spanish counterpart,
José Manuel Albares
for the donation
.
This batch is part of the 7.5 million vaccines that Spain announced that it will deliver to Latin America.
"We thank the Government of Spain for donating 160,000 AstraZeneca vaccines, which, as I informed Chancellor Albares, will help us accelerate the #Vaccination Plan, to reactivate our economy, and thus generate jobs and support the informal population to obtain income", the minister pointed out in a message posted on Twitter.
8.52 Brazil exceeds 574,000 deaths from coronavirus with the Delta variant advancing
Brazil
has registered 698 deaths from
coronavirus
in the last 24 hours
, bringing the total of deaths to 574,209, at a time when the
Delta variant
advances in all regions of the country, the Ministry of Health reported this Saturday.
In the bulletin released this Saturday by the authorities, the accumulated infections since the beginning of the pandemic reach 20,556,487, with the 28,388 new cases identified in the last day.
Efe reports
8.40 175,000 protesters in France against the Covid certificate
A total of 175,503 people have demonstrated this Saturday in
France
against the
Covid
certificate
, according to the Interior Ministry.
The militant collective
Le Nombre Jaune
, which publishes a city-by-city count, has for its part identified 357,100 "minimal" protesters in
France
.
It is the sixth consecutive weekend of mobilizations in France.
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