Coronavirus vaccination campaign launched in Moscow

The World Health Organization warns of reducing measures to confront "Corona"

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The World Health Organization has warned against any laxity in precautionary measures in the face of the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), coinciding with the optimism raised by reaching vaccines, while the Russian capital, Moscow, launched a vaccination campaign against the virus yesterday.

The World Health Organization experts called for the vigilance not to be reduced, due to the optimism raised by the arrival of vaccines.

The Director of the Organization's Emergency Health Cases Program, Mike Ryan, confirmed that "vaccines do not mean zero (Covid)", calling on people to continue their efforts.

Ryan warned that "vaccination will add an important and powerful tool to the set of tools available to us to combat the epidemic, but this tool alone will not do the job."

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said that with the progress related to vaccines we are beginning to see the end of the epidemic, but he warned that the virus will continue to exert tremendous pressure on hospitals.

Yesterday, the Russian capital, Moscow, launched a vaccination campaign against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) with the "Sputnik V" vaccine in clinics, and so far 70 vaccination clinics have been opened, and 100 others will open until the end of the year.

The vaccination in the first phase will be intended for the most vulnerable groups of workers in education, health care, and social services in the city.

And the Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, announced that 5,000 people had registered their requests electronically to receive vaccination against the Corona virus in the city, during the first five hours, after the door for registration was opened.

Moscow is the largest focus of the Corona virus in Russia, as the number of new infections reached 6,868 on Friday, followed by the city of Petersburg, where the number of new infections reached 3,700.

Last weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his country's health officials to start a large-scale vaccination campaign, adding that Russia had produced nearly two million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine.

Yesterday, correspondents of the Agence France-Presse agency saw in front of a vaccination center, queues of people waiting their turn.

The start of the vaccination campaign in Moscow coincided with Russia's recording of a significant increase, and an unprecedented jump in the number of new infections with the emerging coronavirus, within one day, in the highest toll since the start of the pandemic.

The Russian Anti-Virus Operations Center announced, in its daily report yesterday, that 28,145 new infections were recorded, compared to 27,403 the day before, bringing the total number of virus cases in Russia to two million 431 thousand and 731 infections, with 472,651 active cases remaining.

The Operations Center indicated a decrease in the number of deaths, after 508 deaths were recorded, compared to 569 deaths the day before, bringing the total death toll from the virus to 41,607, with 27,644 new patients recovering, bringing the total number of people recovering in Russia to one million 916,396 people .

In Britain, the health authorities expected a significant reduction in the epidemic by next spring, thanks to vaccination campaigns.

However, it is preparing first for a spike in the number of infections after the Christmas period.

And last week, the United Kingdom, the country most affected by the epidemic in Europe (more than 60,000 deaths), became the first Western country to authorize the use of a vaccine against "Covid-19" by giving it the green light for the "Pfizer - Biontech" vaccine.

It is supposed to start distributing the first doses this week.

According to the World Health Organization, 51 candidate vaccines have been tested on humans, and 13 of them are in the last phase of the trials.

Belgium, France and Spain expect to launch vaccination campaigns next January, by focusing first on the most vulnerable groups.

With the expected arrival of these anti-"Covid-19" vaccines, which are supposed to be stored sometimes at very low temperatures, American companies are preparing the ground.

As the US logistics giant UPS has developed portable refrigerators that allow the vaccine to be stored at temperatures ranging between 20 and 80 degrees Celsius below zero.

The car manufacturer Ford requested its own refrigerators to provide vaccines to its employees, at a time when the giant American meat company "Smithfield" expressed its willingness to put cold rooms in its slaughterhouses into service.

The outbreak of the new Corona virus has resulted in the deaths of at least one million and 519 thousand and 213 people around the world, since the outbreak of the epidemic about a year ago, until yesterday, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse, according to official sources.

More than 65 million and 865 thousand and 820 people in the world have been infected with the virus, of whom 41 million and 777 thousand and 200 have recovered, at least until yesterday.

Yesterday, 12,177 additional deaths were recorded, and 677,808 new injuries were recorded in the world.

Based on the latest data, the countries that recorded the largest number of new deaths are: the United States (2,506), followed by Italy (814), and Brazil (694).

The United States is the country most affected by the epidemic, as it recorded 279 thousand and eight deaths, out of 14 million 372 thousand and 570 injuries, according to the Johns Hopkins University census.

At least five million 470,389 people have cured.

68.8 million infections ... and one million and 519 thousand deaths from the "virus" worldwide.

51 vaccines were tested ... 13 of them are in the final stage.

Director of the "Organization":

"We start to see the end (of the epidemic) as the vaccines advance ... but (the virus) will continue to put pressure on hospitals."

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