Today, Tuesday, at dawn, the Russian Ministry of Health announced the introduction of the first batch of the "Sputnik" vaccine against the emerging corona virus into public circulation, while the health authorities in Egypt announced, on the other hand, that the number of virus infections had exceeded the 100,000 mark.
The following is a monitoring of the most prominent developments and news of this pandemic across the world on Tuesday 8 September 2020, according to the time of Makkah:
01:45 - The Russian vaccine enters general circulation
The Russian Ministry of Health announced the introduction of the first batch of the "Sputnik V" vaccine against the emerging corona virus, which is the first of its kind in the world, into public circulation.
The media office of the Russian Health Ministry stated, in a statement reported by the "Russia Today" news channel on Monday evening, that the first batch of the vaccine for the prevention of the emerging corona virus "Sputnik" underwent the necessary tests in the laboratories of the Federal Authority for Monitoring in the field of health, and was entered into public circulation .
The statement added, "It is expected that the first batches of vaccine will be supplied to Russian regions in the near future."
Russia is the first country in the world to register a vaccine against the emerging corona virus, and it was called "Sputnik V", after the name of the first artificial satellite in the world launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
01:00 - The number of infections in Egypt exceeds 100,000
, and the Egyptian Ministry of Health said in a statement that the total cases of Coronavirus in Egypt reached 100,000 and 41 Monday evening.
The ministry added that the number of deaths due to the disease reached 5,541, while 79,8 people have recovered.
00:25 - France records more than 4,000 infections on a day
, the French health authorities announced yesterday, Monday, that they had recorded more than 4,000 new cases of the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), with the daily infection rate continuing to rise over the past week.
Bloomberg news agency quoted the French Ministry of Health as saying that the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of being infected with the Coronavirus increased by 4,203, bringing the total number of infected people in the country to 328,980 cases.
The Ministry of Health indicated that the Corona virus epidemic is spreading again significantly in France, noting that the increase in laboratory tests does not explain the jump in cases of infection.
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