Corona ... Vice Trump receives the vaccine, describing it as a miracle, and international efforts to deliver two billion doses to poor countries

Today, US Vice President Mike Pence received the Corona virus vaccine in front of television screens, describing it as a medical miracle, while the "COVAX" initiative stated that it had obtained nearly two billion doses of Corona vaccines and will work to distribute them to poor and middle-income countries in the first quarter of Next year.

The US Vice President received the vaccine for the American company Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech, Germany. The President of the Public Health Authority Jerome Adams and a number of members of the US administration also received the vaccine. Pence described the vaccine as a medical miracle, and said that millions of doses will arrive. To the Americans in less than a year, explaining that the authorities will provide the vaccine to nearly 28 million Americans before the end of this month.

The US Vice President confirmed that about 3 million doses of the "Pfizer" vaccine have already been distributed, and that next week, another two million doses will be distributed.

Moderna Vaccine

In a related context, the advisory committee at the US Federal Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of granting the moderna virus vaccine, a mandate for emergency use, to be the second vaccine approved in the United States.

The Food and Drug Administration had published a report indicating that the effectiveness of the "Moderna" vaccine reached 94%, according to the data produced by the tests.

Moderna, such as the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, depends on injecting the body with particles of the virus's genetic material to train the immune system to respond to it.

In a related context, Moderna said today that the European Commission has purchased 80 million additional doses of its vaccine, bringing the total order of the Commission to 160 million, and the company added that the first shipments of the vaccine will arrive in European countries in early 2021.

the poor countries

On the other hand, the Kovacs initiative - which aims to empower the world's most vulnerable countries from Corona vaccines - announced today that it has received nearly two billion doses of vaccines, and that it expects the first payments to be delivered to the countries concerned in the first quarter of next year.

The initiative, led by the Gavi Alliance and the World Health Organization, aims to deliver 1.3 billion doses of approved vaccines to nearly 92 poor and middle-income countries over the next year.

The Kovacs initiative stated that it has entered into an agreement today to purchase 170 million doses of the vaccine from AstraZeneca, and a Memorandum of Understanding to buy 500 million doses of the company, "Johnson & Johnson".

The "Kovacs" initiative was established last April by pharmaceutical companies, governments, international organizations and charities with the aim of securing vaccine doses in cooperation with the World Health Organization for low and middle income countries.

Spain and China

In Europe, Spanish Health Minister Salvador Illa said today that his country will start vaccinating its population against the emerging corona virus, starting December 27, that is, shortly after receiving the first doses of the "Pfizer-Biontec" vaccine.

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The Madrid government hopes that 15 to 20 million people out of the total population of 47 million will be vaccinated by May or June, including 2.5 million people by the end of February.

Spain is one of the first European Union countries to set a date for the start of the vaccination campaign.

Next Monday, the European Medicines Agency is considering a license application for the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine.

In China, the authorities intend to start a program to vaccinate citizens in the remote southwestern Sichuan Province early next year, although the vaccines there have not yet obtained official approval.

At least one million people have already received vaccinations in China after two trial vaccines were approved "for use in emergency situations," but so far it has been limited to priority groups, such as state employees and international students.

China has 5 vaccines against the emerging corona virus in the final stages of development, but none of them received official approval from the authorities, and the results of its experiments in the final stages have not been published yet.

It is noteworthy that the Corona virus pandemic has so far claimed more than one million and 662 thousand lives in the world, and it is the disease that appeared for the first time in China at the end of last year, and the number of infected people in the world reached at least 74 million and 890 thousand, while more than 47 million and 866 thousand.