Expectations of a US permit this month for emergency use

"Biontec-Pfizer" announces the success of their vaccine in protecting against "Corona" by 90%

A woman with "Corona" was transferred to a treatment facility established by the Italian army in Milan.

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The US pharmaceutical industry, Pfizer, and German biotechnology, Biontech, announced yesterday that their vaccine to protect against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) is more than 90% effective, and the two companies said that they have not yet found serious safety concerns. And this month, they expected to obtain an American permit to use the vaccine in emergency situations.

According to the preliminary results, protection against the virus was achieved among those who took the vaccine, seven days after receiving the second dose, and 28 days after receiving the first dose.

Pfizer and Biontech signed a contract worth 1.95 billion dollars with the United States government to provide 100 million doses of vaccine at the beginning of this year, and they also reached supply agreements with the European Union, the United Kingdom, Canada and Japan.

Pfizer CEO Albert Burla said: “Today is a great day for science and humanity. We have reached this decisive achievement in our vaccine development program at a time the world desperately needs, with infection rates setting new records, hospitals approaching fullness, and the fight against economies for Reopening ».

The CEO of Biontech, Ugur Shaheen, told «Reuters» that he is optimistic that the vaccination effect of the vaccine will last for a year, although this is not confirmed yet.

The two companies expected that they will manufacture up to 50 million doses of the vaccine in the world in 2020, and up to 1.3 billion doses in 2021.

The German Minister of Health, Jens Young, praised the progress made by the two companies in developing an anti-Corona vaccine, describing the announcement as "very encouraging."

Young men said: “The results indicated that this vaccine will make a difference.” He expressed his pleasure that a German company was among the first to achieve such successes, but at the same time he demanded pending further experiments, saying: “This does not mean that approval will take place. Tomorrow".

The US President-elect, Joe Biden, confirmed in a statement yesterday that he sees an indication of "hope" in announcing the two companies, "Pfizer" and "Biontech", that a vaccine will be 90% effective, warning at the same time that the battle is still long.

Biden said in a statement: "I congratulate the brilliant women and men who contributed to achieving this breakthrough and in giving us a reason to feel hopeful, and it is also important at the same time to realize that the end of the battle against (Covid-19) will take additional months."

For his part, the outgoing US President praised the announcement by the two companies "Biontech" and "Pfizer", describing this announcement of the vaccine as good news, and said in a tweet on the social networking site "Twitter": "The stock market is recording a big increase, a vaccine is on the way soon ... It's 90% effective, according to reports ... Good news! ”

"The efficacy data for the vaccine is really impressive," said William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee.

"This is better than what most of us expected ... the study is not complete yet, but nevertheless the data looks very strong."

In addition, a Reuters statistics showed that more than 50.35 million people were infected with the new Corona virus, since its emergence, until yesterday, while the total deaths resulting from the virus reached one million and 255 thousand and 87 cases.

The United States has become the first country in the world to exceed 10 million HIV infections since the start of the pandemic, according to a Reuters count.

The United States has recorded about a million cases of the virus in the past 10 days, in the highest rate of infections since the country recorded the first case of the emerging coronavirus in Washington, 293 days ago.

It also recorded a record number of injuries, which amounted to 131,420 cases, last Saturday.

More than 237,000 Americans have died from "Covid-19" since the disease caused by the Corona virus first appeared in China, late last year.

Yesterday, the Russian health authorities announced the registration of 21,798 new infections with the Corona virus, during the past twenty-four hours, and according to the "Russia Today" website, this is the highest daily death toll since the beginning of the pandemic.

The site quoted the operations room, specializing in combating the spread of the Coronavirus, that the total confirmed cases of "Corona" in the country rose to one million 796 thousand and 132 injuries.

Also, 254 new deaths caused by the virus were recorded during the last day, which brings the total deaths to 30,793 deaths.

In Iran, the Ministry of Health announced the registration of 458 deaths and 10 thousand and 463 new cases of "Corona", during the past twenty-four hours.

According to "Bloomberg News", this is the largest daily toll of infections recorded by Iran since the emergence of the Corona virus.

Preliminary results: Protection was achieved 7 days after receiving the second dose ... and 28 days after receiving the first dose.

The two companies expect to manufacture 50 million doses of the vaccine during the year 2020 ... and 1.3 billion doses in 2021.

The United States is the first country in the world to exceed 10 million cases of "virus" since the start of the "pandemic".

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