The European Center for Disease Prevention calls for strengthening screening and surveillance

"Mutated Corona" arrives in America and Chile ... and Biden promises to accelerate vaccination

People queue to receive the Corona vaccine in Mexico.

Reuters

The United States and Chile have monitored cases of the mutated strain of the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), while the US President-elect Joe Biden promised to accelerate the unprecedented vaccination campaign, while the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control called on the public health authorities to strengthen examination and surveillance, to discover the possible spread of the strain. New.

The United States revealed the first infection with the mutated virus, a 20-year-old man who lived in Colorado and had not traveled.

State Governor Jared Polis said the patient is currently being quarantined.

Joe Biden, who will assume the presidency on January 20, expressed his concern, explaining that "the coming weeks and months will be very difficult for the United States," and added: "This may be the most difficult period since the outbreak of the epidemic."

Despite calls from authorities to stay home, millions of Americans traveled to celebrate Christmas with their families.

In Los Angeles, ambulances queued up in front of hospitals full to drop people infected with the virus.

In this context, southern California decided to extend the isolation measures.

Biden criticized the delay in distributing anti-"Covid-19" vaccines in the United States, and said: "The Trump administration's plan to distribute the vaccine is long overdue," promising to make all possible efforts to speed up the vaccination campaign, and he pledged again to secure 100 million doses of The vaccine is in the first 100 days of his term.

The Trump administration had set a goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of the year.

About 2.1 million people received a first dose of one of the two licensed vaccines, "Pfizer-Biontech" and "Moderna", according to the latest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received the first two doses yesterday, in front of cameras in Washington.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that the total deaths due to the emerging corona virus in the United States reached 334 thousand and 29, an increase of 1,783 cases over the previous census.

She added that the total number of injuries reached 19 million and 232 thousand and 843 cases, an increase of 176.974 thousand new cases.

Chile announced the detection of the first confirmed infection in Latin America with the mutated strain of Corona, and in Germany, the health authorities said that the strain had been present in the north of the country since last November.

A European health authority advised the public health authorities to strengthen examination and monitoring, to discover the possible spread of the new strain of Corona virus that was first discovered in Britain.

The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said that all the cases that were discovered in about 12 European countries were not due to travel, adding: “Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the continuation of this type of transmission outside the United Kingdom”.

"Although there is no data indicating that the new strains that have been discovered make the disease more dangerous, preliminary results indicate that it may be more transmissible," said chief scientist at the center, Mike Catchpole, in a statement.

He added, "Procedures such as: the developed monitoring, testing, tracing and detection mechanisms are necessary for this."

The center also noted that "few cases" were reported in Europe of a strain that was first discovered in South Africa, including Britain and Finland, and had been linked to travel to South Africa.

In addition, the two American pharmaceutical companies, "Pfizer" and its German partner, "Biontech", announced their intention to supply 100 million additional doses of their anti-corona virus vaccine to the European Union countries during the next year.

This announcement came as a result of the European Commission’s decision to activate the clause of the right to purchase 100 million additional doses of the vaccine as part of the previous contract to purchase a quantity of "Pfizer - Biontech" vaccine, bringing the total contracted quantity to 300 million doses.

Last week, the European Commission agreed to circulate the "Pfizer-Biontech" vaccine for people who are at least 16 years old.

• «Pfizer and Biontech» intends to supply 100 million additional doses of their vaccine to the European Union.

• 2.1 million people in the United States have received the first dose of the Corona vaccine.

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