A wedding ceremony in the United States turns into a hotbed for the "virus"

The US administration dictates a controversial recommendation regarding "Covid-19" to health authorities

White House pressures are aimed at succumbing to Trump's vision regarding the epidemic, especially his desire to revive the economy.

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The administration of the US President, Donald Trump, imposed on the US health authorities a controversial recommendation regarding tests for the detection of "Covid-19", at the expense of the scientific work rules in force, according to what the "New York Times" reported, while a wedding ceremony in the country was transformed. To the epicenter of the virus.

In detail, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the main federal health agency in the United States, in August published on its website a recommendation not to test for people who have been exposed to the virus and are not showing symptoms.

This recommendation was severely criticized, at a time when experts are requesting an examination of the largest possible number of people, in an attempt to stop the spread of the new Corona virus, which has killed more than 197,000 people in the United States.

"The New York Times" quoted what was contained in internal documents, as well as statements by officials of the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, without naming them.

She wrote that the recommendation "was published on the authority's website, despite strong objections to it."

According to the newspaper, an official at the Centers for Disease Prevention said that the Ministry of Health, in the Trump administration and the White House, rewrote the text that was “published on the official website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, regardless of the strict mechanism of scientific review followed by the agency,” contrary to the opinion of Many of its officials.

The "New York Times" added that many health experts at the agency have expressed "strong objections" to this document, which, in their opinion, contains "fundamental errors."

This did not prevent the US administration from submitting the recommendation as being drawn up by the "CDC" with the approval of its director, Dr. Robert Redfield.

In recent weeks, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Drug Agency were accused of succumbing to the White House pressure to submit to Trump's vision regarding the epidemic, especially his desire to revive the economy.

This comes at a time when a wedding ceremony was held last month, in the small US state of Maine, near Canada, into a major epicenter of the outbreak of "Covid-19", as it caused seven deaths and at least 177 infections, as a reminder of the dangers of the virus in the former You think it has passed the worst stages of the pandemic.

The wedding took place on August 7, with the participation of 65 people (and this in itself violates the limit, which is officially permitted, which is 50 people).

After the religious ceremonies, which were held in a Baptist church, the invitees went to a reception that was held at the "Big Banana Inn", two sites close to the small town of Millinocket, which has a population of 4,000 people.

After 10 days, tests showed that 24 people related to this wedding party were infected with the new Corona virus, which prompted the CDC, in Maine, to open an investigation.

The director of the center, Nirav Shah, announced the day before yesterday, a new outcome, showing that at least 177 people were injured, and seven died, “none of them were physically present” at the wedding.

Through the tracking process, it was found that in various regions of Maine a number of epidemics associated with the wedding, including more than 80 injuries in a prison located 370 kilometers from the place, whose guard was present at the wedding, and 10 possible cases in another Baptist church from the same region. There were 39 injuries and six deaths at an elderly shelter about 160 km from Millinocket.

This outbreak came to distract the joy of the people of the town and its region, after the separation measures that were adopted at the beginning of the pandemic were eased, in the belief that the virus has become a thing of the past.

"When we learned what happened, everyone took a stone again, and we closed everything in town," said Cody McEwen, head of the city council.

And some residents clearly expressed their anger at the wedding organizers, including the hostel whose license was temporarily withdrawn.

“They shouldn't have had this wedding,” said Nina Oprikis, of the Baptist Church.

They should have contented themselves with inviting 50 persons, in accordance with the measures to be adopted.

"We can no longer, now, go anywhere, nor do anything," she added.

As for Maine Governor, Janet Meles, yesterday, she sent a warning message to the 1.3 million inhabitants of this small agricultural state, whose infection rate has not exceeded 0.6, so far.

She said that the outbreak of the pandemic, in this way, "threatens to undermine all the progress that has been achieved."

She added: "(Covid-19) is not on the other side of the gate, it is inside our garden."

Since the beginning of the pandemic, a number of incidents have been recorded in the world that have contributed to the spread of infections massively and rapidly, the first of which was in the United States, a conference last February, for a biotechnology company in Boston, in which 175 people participated, and a funeral in Georgia in which more than 100 people were infected with the virus. .

It was observed that large numbers of injuries were concentrated in some universities in recent weeks, which accelerated the return of students to their homes.

The official Oneonta University, in upstate New York, is the latest university outbreak, with 670 injuries recorded within one month.

The European Commission signs a contract to provide 300 million doses of a vaccine to "Sanofi"

The potential vaccine is distributed according to the population and need.

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Yesterday, the European Commission announced the signing of a contract to supply up to 300 million doses of the possible "Covid-19" vaccine from the "Sanofi-GSK" pharmaceutical company, nearly two months after the completion of exploratory talks.

This is the second contract the European Union has signed, on behalf of its 27 members.

The vaccine will be distributed according to the population, and the need for it, in countries that can also decide to give doses to non-member states.

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said yesterday: “At a time when many countries in Europe are witnessing new waves (of infections), after the summer period, the need for a safe and effective vaccine has become more important than before;

To overcome the pandemic and its devastating repercussions on our economies and societies.

The committee is also negotiating similar agreements with other producers, including "Johnson & Johnson", "Curvac", "Moderna" and "Biotech".

It has already signed a contract with AstraZeneca.

Jordan intends to imprison organizers of major social events to contain the outbreak

Jordan announced, the day before yesterday, the imposition of prison terms of up to a year for everyone who organizes weddings, funerals, or social gatherings, attended by more than 20 people, in the latest measures aimed at containing the outbreak of the Corona virus.

The Minister of State for Media Affairs, Amjad Al-Adaileh, said that the recent orders that stem from the emergency law, which the king issued last April, to grant the government broad powers that limit civil rights, will be strictly implemented.

Al-Adayleh said: “The new defense order comes as a continuation of the measures taken by the government in order to preserve the health and safety of citizens, and with the aim of preventing abuses and violations that led to the spread of infection and the increase in cases of infection during the past days.”

He added that the authorities will impose heavy fines on attendees.

The Minister of Health, Saad Jaber, blamed the increase in cases in the past few weeks on "irresponsible" behavior in weddings and social gatherings, where many people mix without wearing masks or applying social distancing rules.

The authorities also suspended classes for two weeks, starting from Thursday, for more than two million students, after dozens of injuries were detected among teachers and students, since schools reopened at the beginning of the month, after an absence of five months.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Drug Agency are accused of succumbing to White House pressure.

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