"Johnson & Johnson" stops testing its vaccine temporarily

Moscow announces the success of its vaccine tests against "Corona" ... and 12 thousand Russians receive the vaccination

Mass checks of residents of Qingdao, China.

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Russia announced the success of its "Sputnik-V" vaccine tests for the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), and that more than 12,000 Russian citizens have been vaccinated.

Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson stated that it had temporarily stopped giving doses as part of a vaccine trial for Corona, after one of the participants contracted an unexplained disease.

The World Health Organization announced that more than 180 countries joined the organization’s efforts to finance Corona vaccines, in order to distribute them fairly to rich and poor countries.

In detail, the head of the Russian Fund for Direct Investments, Kirill Dmitriev, said in an interview with Russia 24: “More than 12,000 people have been vaccinated in Russia.

The results are very good, there is a very good level of antibodies produced by our vaccine, so of course the clinical trials in Russia are successful, and are going well. ”

The head of the Gamalia Center, Alexander Gunsburg, told the Russian agency, Sputnik, that out of the 2,000 volunteers who received the “Sputnik-V” vaccine, there were no new infections with the Corona virus.

According to Sputnik, more than 50 countries are showing interest in the Russian vaccine against the Corona virus, "Sputnik-V".

The Russian Ministry of Health had registered the world's first vaccine to prevent "Covid-19", which was developed by experts from the Gamalia Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology Research, and was produced jointly with the Russian Fund for Direct Investments.

Dmitriev indicated that Russia will share the test results with other countries.

On the other hand, Johnson & Johnson announced that it had temporarily stopped dosing as part of a vaccine trial for Corona, after one of the participants contracted an unexplained disease.

The giant US-based pharmaceutical company is one of several companies racing to produce the world's first vaccine for "Covid-19".

The company is currently in the third phase of a three-stage process to develop the vaccine clinically, and during that process the vaccine is given to thousands of people, and its efficacy and safety are tested.

The company said in a statement, "Diseases, even dangerous ones, were an expected part of any clinical study, and that the number could be reasonably expected in trials involving large numbers of participants."

The statement pointed out that there is a difference between the "temporary suspension of studies" that the company instigates against and the "regulatory suspension" established by a regulatory health authority.

The chief scientist of the World Health Organization, Sumaya Swaminathan, said in a press briefing that more than 180 countries have joined the organization’s efforts to fund Covid-19 vaccines, in order to distribute them equitably to rich and poor countries.

In addition, aggregate data of Coronavirus cases, issued by the American Johns Hopkins University, showed that the total number of infections reached 37 million and 802 thousand cases.

The data also showed that the number of people recovered approached 26.3 million, while the number of deaths exceeded one million and 80 thousand cases.

The United States leads the world in terms of the number of cases, followed by India, Brazil, Russia, Colombia, Argentina, Spain, Peru, Mexico, France, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Iran, Chile and Iraq.

The United States also leads the world in the number of deaths.

In China, the authorities rushed, yesterday, to complete the examination of "Covid-19" for all residents of the city of Qingdao, after the discovery of a small focus, and the city health committee said that it had conducted 3.08 million samples, and the authorities hope to complete the examination of the entire population, which is They number 9.4 million, by tomorrow.

"Global Health": More than 180 countries have joined the effort to fund Corona vaccines.

37.8 million cases of "Corona" around the world ... and the number of deaths exceeds one million and 80 thousand cases.

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