The health authorities in Brazil announced Thursday that the country has exceeded the barrier of 4 million new infections with the new Corona virus, after 44,000 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours, but Brazilian Ministry of Health officials spoke of the slowing down of the disease in the second largest infection epicenter in the world.

On the other hand, Amnesty International said that Mexico is the country in the world where the disease has killed the most by medical teams, as it recorded the death of 1,320 medical workers out of a total of 7 thousand deaths in all countries of the world.

The following are the most prominent developments and news of the virus outbreak around the world on Friday, September 4, 2020, according to the time of Makkah:

9:05 Germany records 782 new cases of corona


The data of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases today, Friday, showed that 782 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus were recorded in Germany, bringing the total number of cases to 246,948.

5:35 South Korea announces 198 cases of corona


The health authorities in South Korea announced that 198 new cases of the new Corona virus have been recorded during the past 24 hours.

And the Central Headquarters for Disease Control in South Korea stated today, Friday, that these new infections raise the toll in the country to 20,842 injuries, while the number of deaths increased by two to 331 deaths.

03:59 - Pharmaceutical companies are ready to produce unprecedented quantities of vaccines


The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said that 28 pharmaceutical companies in 10 countries are ready to produce unprecedented quantities of vaccines in the next two years to combat the Coronavirus pandemic, and the United Nations added that it will help in Leading efforts to procure and distribute vaccines.

UNICEF's role comes within the framework of a global plan to provide vaccines for "Covid-19", known as the Kovacs initiative and co-led by the World Health Organization, and aims to purchase vaccines and provide equitable access to them, and 76 countries have so far committed to join this initiative.

Beginning of November, the date for the distribution of a vaccine against Corona (Covid-19) in the United States ...


Health authorities ask state governments to take the necessary measures to be ready to distribute an anti-virus vaccine at this date.


The infections in the country have reached more than 6 million people and the epidemic has killed more than 184,000 people.

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UNICEF said that 28 vaccine manufacturers have revealed annual production plans for virus vaccines until 2023, and an assessment conducted by the organization for the market revealed that “manufacturing companies are ready to collectively produce unprecedented quantities of vaccines during the next year or two.” However, the companies indicated However, its plans "depend to a large extent on things, including the success of clinical trials, the conclusion of agreements for pre-purchase, confirmation of funding, and the simplification of regulatory matters, and methods of registration."

02:24 - Brazil crosses the threshold of 4 million infections


Brazil - the second largest epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic in the world - has exceeded the 4 million infection threshold, according to Ministry of Health statistics, but its officials say that the disease incidence is slowing down, and the largest country in South America has registered Yesterday, Thursday, there were 44,000 new cases of the disease, and 834 new deaths, bringing the total number of infected people to 4 million and 44 thousand, and deaths to more than 124,600.

On Thursday, the Brazilian Ministry of Health said that the number of injuries has decreased slightly in the past few days, in light of hopes that the country has passed the peak stage of the disease, after months in which deaths exceeded a thousand cases per day.

01:21 - Mexico records the most deaths among health personnel


, Amnesty International (Amnesty International) said that Mexico is the country in the world where the Coronavirus disease has eliminated medical personnel, explaining that this country has recorded, up to 1320 hours, deaths among these cadres who are located in The front line with the pandemic, while the disease has killed at least 7,000 people from this category globally.

Among the countries that recorded large numbers of deaths among their medical personnel: the United States (1077 deaths), Brazil (634 deaths) and India (573 deaths).

Amnesty International's Director of Economic and Social Justice, Steve Cockburn, called for cooperation at the global level to ensure that medical personnel have the necessary protective equipment, so that they do their duty to confront the virus without endangering their lives.

01:19 - Egypt records 18 new deaths from the virus


The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced the registration of 145 new cases of coronavirus and 18 deaths on Thursday, compared to 165 cases and 21 deaths on Wednesday.

A spokesman for the ministry said that the total number of injuries since the outbreak of the pandemic has reached 99,425 cases, of whom 75,415 have recovered, and 5,479 deaths.

In mid-March, the Cairo authorities imposed general isolation measures to combat the outbreak of the virus, including night curfews, banning large public gatherings, and closing restaurants, theaters and cinemas, but Egypt has lifted most of these measures since late June.

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