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January 04 2021 Coronavirus cases globally have exceeded the 85 million mark: this is what emerges from the counts of Johns Hopkins University.

According to the American university, the infections are currently 85,122,080, including 1,843,135 deaths.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, 47,860,306 people have healed around the world.

Despite the launch of the massive vaccination campaign in several countries, it is still too early to record the impact of immunizations on the spread of the disease.

In the meantime, Covid does not slow down its spread, advancing at the rate of five to seven hundred thousand infections and of 9-15 thousand victims every 24 hours.

In the United States, the country most affected, there were over 20.6 million infections and 351,472 deaths.

Followed by India (10.3 million), Brazil (7.7 million), Russia (3.2 million), France (2.7 million), Great Britain (2.6 million), Turkey ( 2.2 million) and Italy (2.1 million).

Japan is planning to launch vaccination against Covid-19 by the end of February.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced the country has agreements with Pfizer / BioNTech for 120 million doses of the vaccine, with the British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca for another 120 million doses and with the American company Moderna for 50 million doses. "The government is preparing to begin vaccination, if possible, by the end of February while continuing to study the safety and efficacy [of vaccines]," Suga said at a news conference.

Japan's health ministry previously reported that once a coronavirus vaccine gets cleared in the country, which is likely to happen in February, 10,000 healthcare workers will receive the injections immediately: the forecast is that 4 million will be vaccinated in March. From April, people with chronic cardiovascular diseases, kidney, lung, liver disease, cancer patients, as well as people with obesity (body mass index over 30) will be able to get vaccinated.

Thailand has confirmed 745 new coronavirus infections and a new victim, bringing the total number of cases to 8,439 and that of deaths to 65.The majority of the new cases were discovered in Samut Sakhon, a province near Bangkok, where the current epidemic started in mid-December: the government taskforce for Covid-19 indicated it.