Today, Tuesday, the number of people infected with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) has reached more than 73.33 million.

While France announced the end of the home quarantine period across the country, the European Medicines Agency will announce a week later the expert report on the "Pfizer-BioNTech" vaccine, which includes medical approval and safety.

According to the "World Meter" website, which specializes in monitoring Corona statistics, the number of confirmed cases of the virus in the world reached 73 million 337 thousand and 895 cases at 17:30 Mecca time (14:30 GMT).

While the number of people recovered reached 51 million and 481 thousand and 481, and the number of deaths reached one million and 631 thousand and 67 deaths.

Injuries and vaccinations

The number of injuries in the United States, the country most affected by the epidemic, reached 16 million and 943 thousand and 897 injuries, while the number of deaths reached 308 thousand and 91.

Yesterday, the United States began distributing the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine nationwide, and it is assumed that about 3 million doses of the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine will be available by tomorrow, Wednesday, with the goal of vaccinating about 20 million Americans before the end of the year, and 100 million before End of next March.

President Trump wrote on Twitter, "The first vaccine received ... Congratulations to the United States ... Congratulations to the world."

This vaccination campaign is the largest in the history of the United States, with the arrival of vaccine doses of the "Pfizer-Biontech" company in various states.

Medical workers and people most vulnerable to the virus will be among the first to benefit from new vaccines in the first phase.

Indeed, a nurse in New York today, Tuesday, received the first vaccine against (Covid-19) in the United States, the country most affected by the Corona virus.

A group examination for infection with Corona virus in India (Reuters)

Toll and retreat

In India, the second country in the world in the number of injuries, the death toll from the epidemic reached 9 million 912 thousand and 54 injuries, while the number of deaths reached 143,802.

Earlier today, the Indian government announced the cancellation of the winter session of Parliament this year, due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, even in light of the decline in the number of new daily cases of the virus.

Today, Tuesday, fewer than 22,000 new daily infections were recorded, for the first time since the seventh of last July, according to the Ministry of Health.

France will keep curfew (Reuters)

Stone finishes

Meanwhile, in France, today, it ended the home quarantine period throughout the country, which lasted nearly 3 and a half months, to limit the outbreak of the Coronavirus.

The French will be able to move around the country without a permit until 8:00 pm (7:00 pm GMT), when the curfew will start, which lasts until 6:00 in the morning every day.

With the approaching celebrations of the end of the year holidays and to avoid the risks of the third wave of the spread of the epidemic, the Scientific Council in France recommended self-quarantine within a week, in case those celebrations were family.

France ranks fifth in the number of injuries worldwide, with two million 397 thousand and 915 injuries, while the death toll reached 58,282 deaths.

Germany may start vaccination with the Pfizer vaccine on December 26 (Reuters)

Vaccine and approval

This comes while German media quoted sources in the European Commission confirming that the European Medicines Agency will grant approval to use the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine on the 23rd of this month, and that Germany may start a vaccination campaign with it on the 26th of the same month.

For his part, German Health Minister Jens Young expects that the vaccination will be completed for about 60% of German citizens by the end of next summer.

Young men added that his country seeks to have a permit to use the vaccine before Christmas, but the decision must eventually be issued by the European Medicines Agency, as he put it.

As for German Chancellor Angela Merkel, she described adopting an unwarranted behavior in dealing with the emerging corona virus, as destructive to society, in light of the current outbreak of the virus.

Merkel expressed her regret at the low preparation for social distancing restrictions compared to the first lockdown in Germany in the spring of this year, and warned that at least 400 people die from corona infection every day.

Checks and cancellations

To control the outbreak of the epidemic, the British government announced that secondary schools and colleges in England will undergo weekly tests to detect cases of Coronavirus, starting next week.

Today, Tuesday, Minister of Education Gavin Williamson announced that students and staff will be subject to a daily examination for 7 days if it is determined that they are in close contact with a person who has tested positive for the virus.

This announcement comes after a pilot plan was implemented in certain schools earlier in the fall semester.

In a context related to the repercussions of the virus, the Tunisian Prime Minister - Hisham Al-Mechichi - canceled his visit to Italy, scheduled for today, Tuesday, after the Finance Minister Ali Al-Ali was confirmed infected, while the tests were negative for the rest of the government team.

It is expected that the prime minister will return to Tunisia in the coming hours after ending his visit to France, which began last Saturday.

On Tuesday, Tunisia announced that it had recorded 21 deaths and 397 injuries due to Corona, and the Ministry of Health stated that the total number of HIV infections in Tunisia rose to 111,758, including 3,915 deaths, and 85,882 cases of recovery.

Al-Mashishi canceled his visit to Italy due to the Minister of Finance's infection with the Corona virus (Al-Jazeera)

third stage

In the context of vaccine production, the German company "Corvac" announced the start of the third phase of the necessary clinical trials for its vaccine against Coronavirus, with the participation of more than 35 thousand volunteers.

A company spokesman said it expected the first results of those tests to appear at the end of March of next year.

The company’s president, Franz Werner Haas, described the vaccine’s entry into the third stage as a “quantum leap in vaccine development,” which relies on an active substance called mRNA.