Ford buys super-cooled freezers to provide the virus vaccine to its workers

Corona injuries around the world exceed the 60 million mark

Putin during a videoconference opening ceremony for a pharmaceutical factory in Siberia that will manufacture drugs to treat "Covid-19".

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As of yesterday morning, aggregate data showed that the total number of new coronavirus infections around the world approached 60.4 million, while the US company, Ford, bought super-cooled freezers to provide the virus vaccine to its workers.

In detail, the latest data available on the Johns Hopkins University website showed that the total number of injuries reached 60 million and 392 thousand cases, while the number of people recovering exceeded 38.7 million, and the number of deaths one million and 421 thousand.

The United States leads the world in terms of the number of injuries, followed by India, Brazil, France, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Italy, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Germany, Peru, Poland and Iran.

The United States also leads the world in terms of the number of deaths, followed by Brazil, India, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Italy and France.

This comes at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a pharmaceutical factory in Siberia yesterday that will manufacture medicines to treat “Covid-19”, at a time when Russia has recorded high records of new infections and deaths from the Corona virus.

Russia has seen a rise in the number of infections since September, but the authorities have resisted the imposition of the lockdown and relied instead on specific measures in certain regions.

Speaking at the opening ceremony via the video link, Putin said that the factory will produce "Covid-19" drugs, as well as drugs used to treat tuberculosis, diabetes, hepatitis, and other diseases. "People need these drugs, they need them literally every day," he said.

Russia recorded a record high of 25,487 new cases of the Coronavirus yesterday, and 524 deaths, the highest numbers recorded since the beginning of the outbreak.

Yesterday, the TASS news agency and the Russian Information Agency reported that the health care watchdog "Rosdravnadzor" said that some areas in the country, with a population of about 145 million people, suffer from busy hospital beds for "Covid-19" patients.

The authorities in Moscow, which recorded 6,075 new cases, yesterday, extended the recommended period of self-isolation for residents over the age of 65, and those within the at-risk groups, until January 15.

For its part, the American automaker, Ford, announced an order to purchase about 10 super-cooled freezers, in order to be able to safely store the expected American pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, vaccine against the emerging corona virus, in a step aimed at ensuring that the company's workers receive the vaccine as soon as it is released. in the United States.

Ford’s move refers to the efforts made by US states and cities to purchase equipment for storing millions of doses of the expected vaccine, which needs to be stored and handled at a temperature of minus 70 degrees Celsius, which is much lower than the temperature needed by other vaccines, and ranges between Two degrees and eight degrees Celsius.

"We are doing this so that we can electively provide the vaccine to our workers," said Ford spokeswoman Kelly Felker.

She added that the company's management is still studying the details of how to use these freezers, which will be received by the end of this year.

It is noteworthy that «Ford» is conducting tests to detect the Corona virus among its factory workers, and in the event of a confirmed infection, cooperation with health service providers associated with a partnership agreement with the second largest automobile company in the United States will take place.

According to the website «Automotiv News», assembly plant workers are considered workers in vital fields for most US states, but they do not occupy an advanced position on the list of categories that will be the first to obtain the Corona virus vaccine, which will be distributed initially to workers in the sector. Health and care home inmates.

Ford did not disclose the cost of purchasing these freezers, which it bought according to its own plans, without cooperation with the states or other American companies. According to market figures, the price of the freezer that is suitable for preserving the Pfizer vaccine ranges between 5000 and 15 thousand dollars.

This comes at a time when the Joint United Nations Program on HIV / AIDS warned yesterday that the lack of AIDS treatment in the poorest countries should serve as a lesson, as countries try to Securing vaccines against the Coronavirus.

"The world must learn from the mistakes of the response to HIV (HIV), when millions died in developing countries while awaiting treatment," the UN program said in a statement from Geneva.

The program added: "There are promising vaccines against (Corona) that continue to appear, but we must make sure that they are not the preserve of the rich."

The program urged pharmaceutical companies to share their technologies and waive intellectual property rights to allow the global mass production of vaccines necessary to protect the world's population from the Corona virus.

The program revealed, in its annual report that it published before the "World AIDS Day", which falls on December 1, that 12 million people infected with HIV had not been able to access life-saving drugs during the past year.

The program also warned that pressure on health services amid the Corona pandemic could lead to 293,000 additional HIV infections and up to 148,000 additional AIDS-related deaths until 2022.

Sweden's Prince Carl Philip and his wife are infected with "Covid-19"

The Prince of Sweden, Carl Philip, and his wife, Princess Sofia, are subject to self-isolation after they were diagnosed with the new Corona virus, according to what the royal palace announced yesterday.

Carl Philip (41 years), the 16-year-old son of King Carl Gustaf and Princess Silvia, and his wife Sophia (35 years), are suffering from "slight flu symptoms", and they are recovering in a home stone with their two young children, according to the royal palace statement.

It is planned that the king and queen, the heir to the throne, Princess Victoria, and her husband, Prince Daniel, will undergo a precautionary diagnostic examination, according to the same source.

The newspaper "Aftonbladet" reported that the royal family gathered to commemorate the funeral of the Queen's brother, last week, but all of its members underwent negative tests before attending the ceremony.

Princess Sophia made headlines when she joined the health care staff at Sophiahemmet Hospital in Stockholm to help him at the start of the epidemic, and she is still continuing her volunteer work part-time.

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