Efforts to vaccinate 14 million people by mid-February

Two million people were vaccinated against "Corona" in Britain ... and the campaign intensified as of today

One of the places of vaccinations against "Corona" in Newcastle, northeast England

The British Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, announced yesterday that his country has vaccinated about two million people against the emerging corona virus, explaining that the vaccination campaign will be intensified as of today, adding in televised statements that Britain aims to vaccinate about 14 million by mid-February, including Those over the age of 70, and the most vulnerable to infection, that is, the elderly, those with previous diseases, and workers in the fields of health and social care.

Hancock said about 200,000 people are getting vaccinations every day now, which puts Britain on the path to achieving its goal and provides an opportunity to start easing restrictions in the spring.

In light of the presence of a new highly contagious strain of the virus in Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a third general isolation in England, the most populous region of the United Kingdom, in an attempt to curb the pandemic before vaccinating all those most vulnerable to the disease.

More than 80,000 people died from the disease in Britain within 28 days of being diagnosed with Corona, which is the fifth largest number of deaths from the virus in the world.

More than three million people have tested positive for the disease in the country.

Buckingham Palace said, the day before yesterday, that Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, both of whom are in their tenth decade of life, received the first dose of the vaccine to prevent "Covid-19".

In addition, the Japanese Ministry of Health said, yesterday, that a new strain of Corona virus was discovered in four travelers from Brazil, in the latest example that the epidemic virus is developing.

The head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Takagi Wakita, said in a briefing to reporters at the Ministry of Health that studies are currently being conducted on the effectiveness of vaccines against the new strain, which differs from the two highly infectious strains, which were first discovered in Britain and South Africa, and caused a sharp increase in numbers. Injuries.

"At the moment, there is no evidence that this new strain, which was discovered in those coming from Brazil, is highly contagious," Wakita added.

The Japanese Ministry of Health said that among the four travelers who arrived at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on January 2, there was a man in his forties facing trouble breathing, a woman in his thirties suffering a headache and sore throat, and a teenage boy suffering from a high temperature, in When another young woman did not show any symptoms.

In Canada, a curfew came into effect in Quebec, in an effort to contain the second wave of new infections with the new Corona virus, in an unprecedented measure at the level of an entire province since the outbreak of the Spanish flu a century ago.

The Quebec security service wrote in a tweet: "Despite some incidents, we notice excellent cooperation from the population in respecting the curfew."

Several dozen people demonstrated in Montreal and Quebec in general, and the police made some arrests, according to Radio Canada.

The curfew will be in effect from eight in the evening to five in the morning, and will last for four weeks until the eighth of next February in the Francophone province, which has a population of 8.5 million, which is the most affected by the epidemic.

Quebec counted, the day before yesterday, 3,127 new cases of the emerging coronavirus, surpassing for the first time the threshold of 3,000 daily infections, and 41 deaths.

The national toll for Canada, which has a population of 38 million, reached 652,473 injuries and 16,833 deaths.

The new Corona virus has caused the death of 1.926.570 million people in the world, since the outbreak of the epidemic at the end of the year before last, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse based on official sources.

More than 89,557,550 million people in the world have been infected with the virus since the beginning of the epidemic, of whom at least 55,288,900 million have recovered.

The day before yesterday, 13,357 additional deaths were recorded, and 756,368 new infections worldwide.

And the countries that recorded the highest number of new deaths, according to their latest figures, are the United States with 3,684 deaths, followed by Brazil (1171) and Mexico (1135).

The United States is the country most affected by the epidemic, as it recorded 372,522 thousand deaths out of 22,138,418 million infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University census.

4 cases of a new strain of "Corona" were discovered in Japan.

A curfew imposed in a Canadian province to contain the second wave of infections.

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