Germany is working to increase places where the vaccine "Pfizer - Biontech" is produced
European countries continue to join the vaccination campaigns against "Corona"
During a vaccination campaign in a nursing home in Milan, Italy.
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A nurse prepares to vaccinate someone in Greece.
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Yesterday, Belgium, Latvia and Iceland joined the growing list of European countries that started vaccinating campaigns for their population with the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), which is produced by the American company "Pfizer" and the German "Biontech", while Germany announced that it is working with the two companies from In order to provide additional production places for the vaccine.
In Belgium, a 101-year-old resident of a nursing home became the first person in the Brussels region to receive the vaccine, followed by four of his colleagues residing in the home, according to the Belgian news agency "Bilga".
Doctors and nurses were the first to receive the vaccine in Latvia, as medical staff at the University Hospital in Riga received it.
Several countries, including Spain, have been affected by shipping delays from Belgium due to logistical problems.
The Spanish media quoted Health Minister Salvador Illa as saying yesterday: "It appears that it is a problem in controlling the temperature."
Yesterday, Iceland received the first batch of the Coronavirus vaccine, and the vaccine doses, amounting to about 10 thousand, produced by the companies "Biontech" and "Pfizer" were transferred from Amsterdam.
“Today is a day of good news,” Health Minister Svandis Svvarsdottir told a press conference yesterday.
There are many lessons to be learned from the (Covid-19) pandemic, but the most important thing is that we are stronger together. I hope you will all see smiles under these masks.
There are smiles. ”
The German Minister of Health, Jens Young, expressed his optimism about the possibility of increasing the production of the Corona vaccine in his country.
He said in an interview with German TV Channel 2 (ZDF): “We are doing everything we can with Biontec and Pfizer to provide additional production facilities here in Germany, for example in Marburg and Hesse.”
"The aim is to make production available there in the next February and March, and this will increase the quantity tremendously," he added.
It is noteworthy that «Biontech» had acquired the production facility in Marburg from the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis.
According to data issued by "Biontech", the place needs some re-equipment work before starting production of the vaccine against "Covid-19".
Young men expressed his rejection of the demands made for more speed, and explained that the production of vaccines already has many requirements, and production cannot be increased as desired within three to four weeks.
In addition, a prominent official in the US Department of Health and Human Services, in charge of Corona virus tests at the White House, Brett Gerwier, expressed his belief that the currently available anti-virus vaccines are effective against the new strain of the virus that was discovered in Britain, saying: “We do not have Evidence indicates that vaccines will not be effective ».
"The New York Daily News" quoted Gerwier as confirming that the states will ultimately determine who will be next in line to receive the vaccine, after health care workers and residents of nursing homes, indicating that it is safe for children to return to school. Even before they get the vaccine, studies are still ongoing to ensure the vaccine is safe for children.
Current and former US health officials went to broadcast waves to warn Americans of a possible jump in coronavirus cases after the holidays, and the government's chief infectious disease physician, Anthony Fauci, on the CNN's State of the Union program warned of an "increase" On top of the current increase in the number of HIV infections after the Christmas and New Year period », Fauci urged people in the United States to continue receiving vaccinations.
"We have a difficult month ahead of us after the recent increase in the number of cases, with the number of hospital admissions increasing after a few weeks," Bloomberg News quoted former US Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb as saying on CBS's "Face the Nation" program. ».
In South Korea, President Moon Jae-in defended, yesterday, vaccines against Corona, and told the last weekly meeting with his aides for this year that the fears of vaccines are unreal, and that his government is doing its best to obtain quantities of the vaccine that are sufficient for several months. .
South Korean officials pledged to accelerate efforts to launch a general immunization program to prevent the emerging corona virus, after the country announced, yesterday, that it had recorded its first cases of the new Corona virus strain, to which the rapid increase in cases in Britain is attributed.
The Agency for Disease Control and Prevention in South Korea stated that it had detected the fastest spreading strain of the other current virus strains in three individuals who arrived in South Korea from London on December 22, and the authorities decided to extend a ban on direct flights from Britain for an additional week until the seventh of next January. .
The new Corona virus has caused the death of one million and 765 thousand and 49 people in the world since the outbreak of the epidemic at the end of last year, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse based on official sources, and more than 80,686,630 million people in the world have been infected with the virus, 50,834,100 million of whom have recovered. At least until yesterday.
Yesterday, 7273 new deaths and 444,004 thousand new infections were recorded in the world.
The United States is the country most affected by the epidemic, as it recorded a total of 333,140 thousand deaths from 19136589 million infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University census.
At least 6,298,082 million people have been cured.
After the United States, the most affected countries are Brazil, where 191,139 deaths were recorded from 7,484,285 million injuries, India with 147,901 thousand deaths and 10.207.871 million injuries, Mexico with 122,426 deaths and 1383434 million injuries, and Italy with 71,925 deaths and 2,047.696 million injuries. .
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One million corona infections worldwide, and deaths amount to one million and 765 thousand.
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