The director of the American Institute for Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci, said that a second anti-Coronavirus vaccine will be announced soon, days after two American and German companies announced that a vaccine would be reached with an effective rate of 90%. Vaccines for the virus to all countries of the world, especially middle and low income countries.

Fauchi, a member of the committee created by the White House to confront the pandemic, stated in a video conference, Thursday, to the British "Chatham House" institute that "a strike force is coming", commenting on the imminent arrival of a vaccine against the virus. He cautioned against cooperating on measures to prevent the emerging disease.

The American company "Moderna" said that it expects to submit an urgent license application for a vaccine against the Corona virus with the US Food and Drug Administration at the end of this month, and "Moderna" is working to develop the vaccine with the National Institutes of Health of America.

Fauci stressed that the vaccines that will be reached will also be available to the poorest countries, and said, "It is not appropriate for a person to live or die depending on where he was born."

The number of people infected with the virus around the world has exceeded the barrier of 53 million, while the number of deaths has reached more than one million and 297 thousand, and the United States is still leading the world with more than 10 million confirmed infections, and more than 241 thousand deaths.

A UN project

On the other hand, the Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said yesterday, Thursday, at the third session of the Paris Peace Forum that there is a financial gap of 28.5 billion dollars in financing a UN project that aims to facilitate the equitable access of the countries of the world to two billion doses of Corona vaccines. By the end of the year 2021.

The UN project relates to a mechanism called "ACT Accelerator". The project aims, in addition to distributing two billion doses of Corona vaccines, to provide 500 million tests and 245 million treatments to low and middle income countries.

French President Emmanuel Macron said at the Paris Peace Forum that the world "will not win the virus by giving up part of humanity," referring to the issue of the world's countries, especially the poor ones, obtaining doses of anti-virus vaccines when they are ready, and Chinese President Xi said Jinping in the forum itself, "We must place human life above all considerations."

To face the aforementioned gap, France pledged to pay $ 100 million, Spain $ 50 million, and the European Commission $ 100 million, while Britain pledged to provide one British pound for every $ 4 provided by others.

The Director-General of the Health Organization stressed that there is an immediate need of $ 4.5 billion to maintain the dynamism of the "ACT Accelerator" project, whose full budget is estimated at nearly $ 38 billion.

Lebanon and Jordan

On the other hand, Lebanon will enter tomorrow, Saturday, in the event of a two-week new year closure in an attempt to limit the high number of HIV infections, and the country's hospitals have reached their maximum capacity, as the number of infections exceeded 100 thousand yesterday, Thursday, and the Lebanese Ministry of Interior said yesterday, that The closure will be accompanied by a curfew from 5 pm to 5 am from Monday to Saturday, provided that curfew is absolutely prohibited on Sunday, and cars are organized according to their plate numbers, so that it is not possible to walk for more than 3 days per week.

The closure does not include Beirut airport, as it includes exceptions for the health and vital sectors.

Al-Khasawneh apologizes and announces the resignation of the Minister of Interior over the events that followed the electoral process. # Jordan # Comprehensive Ban # Here_the Kingdom pic.twitter.com/Wvf19GZG7X

- Kingdom Channel (@AlMamlakaTV) November 12, 2020

In Jordan, government media reported yesterday that Interior Minister Tawfiq Al-Halimah resigned from his post, after a state of public discontent with the gatherings and unrest that followed the parliamentary elections, which represented a violation of the nationwide lockdown measures imposed by the authorities for 5 days with the aim of limiting the spread of the virus. Corona.

The Jordanian authorities announced this month that a general isolation would take effect in the country as soon as the election procedures are over, in order to ensure that these elections do not lead to a sudden increase in the number of injuries.

The Kingdom, which is now one of the countries in the region most affected by the epidemic, recorded 5,685 new infections and 80 deaths on Thursday, bringing the total number to more than 132,000 cases, and one thousand and 547 deaths.