Today, Saturday, Russia announced the start of production of a vaccine against the Coronavirus (Covid-19), amid doubling global efforts to contain the disease, while the global infections exceeded 21 million.
Interfax quoted the Russian Health Ministry as saying that the vaccine developed by the Aesthetic Institute in Moscow will be offered at the end of this month.
Scholars feared that Russia might advance Russia's prestige for safety, according to Reuters.
Russia announced the registration of 5,61 new cases of the virus today, Saturday, bringing the total number to 917,884 cases, which is the fourth highest toll in the world.
The Russian Center for Corona Crisis Management said that 119 people had died of the virus during the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 15,617.
A Reuters tally showed that more than 21 million people have been infected with the virus in more than 210 countries since it first appeared in December last year.
The United States topped the list, with 176,278 deaths, five million 271 thousand and 87 injuries, and Brazil came in second place, with 105,463 deaths, 3 million 224,876 injuries.
India comes in third place, with 48 thousand and 40 deaths, along with two million and 461 thousand and 190 injuries.
And in Latin America, which is the most affected region of the world by Corona; Reuters statistics indicated that the number of cases exceeded 6 million on Friday, and cases are still increasing at a time when most of the countries in the region began to ease the general isolation measures.
The number of confirmed cases of corona in Latin America reached 6 million by yesterday evening, in addition to 237,360 deaths.
The region had recorded more than 86,000 infections per day on average with the emerging coronavirus, during the past seven days, and more than 2,600 deaths from Covid-19.
The Health Organization of the Americas - which represents the regional arm of the World Health Organization - this month warned of an increase in other diseases due to the saturation of the health service and the suspension of routine vaccination campaigns as a result of this pandemic.
In June, the International Monetary Fund expected the regional economy to shrink 9.4% this year.
The country most affected by the pandemic in the region is Brazil, which has the most injuries in the world after the United States and 15% of all injuries in the world.
Peru and Chile also have the highest number of cases and deaths in the world per 100,000 people.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed Thursday that the vaccine that the AstraZeneca laboratory is working on, which will be produced in Argentina and Mexico for Latin American countries - with the exception of Brazil - must be ready in the first quarter of 2021.
Redoubled efforts
Countries in the world are doubling efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic, whose infections are increasing rapidly in several parts, at a time when the United Kingdom decided to impose a 14-day quarantine on arrivals from France, while Berlin included Spain - with the exception of the Canary Islands - on the list of regions. Which is witnessing a serious outbreak of the epidemic.
And the British government's decision obstructed the projects of hundreds of thousands of travelers to spend the summer vacation, in a new indication of the return of closures after easing restrictions in the early summer in a number of European countries.
The British government said it had signed new deals with the Belgian pharmaceutical company "Jansen" and the American biotechnology company Novafex to ensure access to another 90 million doses of a vaccine for the Corona virus that is being developed.
The number of vaccines that the British government has requested to purchase so far is 6 vaccines; This raises its potential stockpile to 340 million doses of vaccine, which means ensuring an average of 5 doses of vaccine for every British citizen.
Currently, European cities require the wearing of masks even in non-closed places, and two Spanish regions also prohibit smoking in the streets.
In New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Friday that the country has extended its lockdown measures to Auckland for at least 12 days after the virus spread outside the largest city in the country.
On the other hand, North Korea announced on Friday that it will lift the isolation measures for a city located on the inter-Korean border that was imposed at the end of last July after the discovery of the first infection with the Coronavirus on its soil.
In the United States, the controversial issue of wearing masks returned to the fore Thursday, with Democratic candidate Joe Biden calling for them to be imposed throughout the country, an idea that quickly angered his Republican rival, President Donald Trump, who accused him of wanting to "lock all Americans in their homes for months." ".