The World Health Organization said Thursday that launching a vaccine to prevent the Coronavirus will allow the world to gradually control the disease next year, while more than one country announced that the virus vaccine will be available starting from next week and will be distributed before Christmas.

"Life as we used to know it (will return), I think this is very, very possible, but we will have to continue to maintain personal hygiene and physical distancing," Mike Ryan, chief emergency expert at the organization, told RTE television in his native Ireland. Calling to take health precautions during the Christmas celebrations.

He pointed out that vaccines do not mean the end of Covid-19, but in addition to the precautionary measures, they will allow "really crush the curve, avoid general isolation and gain gradual control of the disease."

For his part, US President Donald Trump said that delivery of the Coronavirus vaccine will begin next week and the following week, indicating in a speech to US forces abroad on the occasion of Thanksgiving Day that “the vaccine will be distributed initially to frontline workers, medical workers and senior citizens.” .

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a speech to Parliament that the vaccine may be available in her country before Christmas, noting that workers in the health sector will have priority access to it.

She added that she hopes that approvals will be issued very quickly for vaccines. “This will not solve the problem immediately, but there is light at the end of the tunnel, and we will definitely have to go through the winter months as a large number of people are still not vaccinated. I think we will see a lot of progress year Next. "

                              Merkel said she hopes that approvals will be issued very quickly for vaccines (Anatolia)

Spain and Sweden

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez also said that his country will start a comprehensive program of vaccination against the Corona virus next January, and that his country will strengthen cooperation between the public and private sectors to carry out this task.

As for Sweden, the health authorities announced that the vaccine distribution program against the Corona virus could start next January, and the chief virologist at the Swedish Public Health Agency Anders Tegnell said, "First of all, the vaccine must be subject to the required reviews and approval. Our assessment is that the vaccine could start in January.

Tegnell explained that the vaccine will be given priority to at-risk groups and people aged 70 and over, caregivers for the elderly, health professionals and other caregivers who work closely with groups at risk.

Premier League

In Britain, fans of the English Premier League football clubs from regions in London and Liverpool will be able to attend matches when the general lockdown measures to combat the spread of the Corona virus in the country end on the second of next December.

On Monday, the British government announced that up to 4,000 fans would be allowed to attend sporting events in the least affected areas of the Corona virus in England.

                                          Thanksgiving opens the holiday season in the United States (Reuters)   

Thanksgiving

In the United States, Johns Hopkins University said that more than 2,400 deaths have been recorded in Corona in the country, which is the highest death toll for 6 months, while the number of injuries reached more than 12.7 million. This coincides with Thanksgiving Day, which opens the holiday season in the states. United, amid officials' warnings and recommendations not to travel and to avoid celebrating the numbers of more than ten people.

In the context, the US Supreme Court sided with religious institutions in New York that complained about the restrictions imposed by Governor Andrew Como on them to prevent the spread of the virus, claiming that these restrictions are illegal.

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Judge John Roberts added that the restrictions preventing people from attending mass strikes at the core of the first article of the constitution that guarantees religious freedom, noting that the constitution cannot be ignored even while the country is going through a pandemic.

On the other hand, Judge Sonia Sotomayor decided that the intervention of the Supreme Court came at an inappropriate time, and said that "the Supreme Court judges are playing a deadly game by criticizing the opinion of health experts about places that could contribute to the increase in the spread of the virus."

In a related matter, the Disney group intends to abolish 32,000 jobs in its theme parks by the end of the first quarter of 2021, and the American giant announced last September that it would cancel 28,000 jobs in the United States due to the epidemic.

The Health Organization confirmed that launching a vaccine would allow the world to gradually control the disease next year (Anatolia)

The number of injuries between ups and downs

The number of infections recorded in a number of countries varied between high and low, as France recorded 13,563 new infections with the Corona virus on Thursday, down from 16,282 cases yesterday, Wednesday, and 21,150 a week ago, which indicates the continued slowdown in the spread of the virus in the fourth week of isolation. Year across the country.

The total number of confirmed cases of the virus in France reached 2.18 million, and the authorities indicated that today they recorded 339 new deaths from the virus in hospitals, down from 381 yesterday.

As for Russia, Thursday recorded an unprecedented number of daily infections and deaths a week after it exceeded two million new infections with the new Corona virus, and during the last 24 hours, the country recorded 25 thousand and 487 new infections and 524 deaths, out of a total of two million and 187 thousand and 900 injuries and 38 thousand and 62 deaths since The emergence of the epidemic.

For its part, South Korea announced Thursday about 600 new infections with the Corona virus within 24 hours, which is the highest number of infections recorded by the country since last March, and a rise that raised fears of a third epidemic wave in it.

In the Arab world, the Moroccan Ministry of Health said that on Thursday, it recorded 4,178 new cases of Coronavirus, which raises the total number of infections in the country to 340,684 cases, adding that it recorded 80 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic to 5619.