On Friday, the World Health Organization announced its opposition to considering the certificate of vaccination against the Corona virus a condition for travel between countries, stressing the need for vaccination campaigns against the virus to include all countries of the world within 100 days, after the virus caused the death of more than two million people worldwide since its emergence a year ago.

The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stressed the importance of starting vaccination campaigns in all countries of the world within 100 days.

"I want to see vaccination campaigns started in every country within the next 100 days, so that health care workers and those at greater risk can be protected in the first place," he said at a press conference in Geneva.

Preparations and suspicion, and


these statements come at a time when a global opinion poll revealed that people around the world generally want to have a vaccine against the Corona epidemic, as it showed feelings of suspicion about the vaccines produced by China and Russia that outweigh their fears of vaccines made in Germany or the United States.

The poll, conducted by the YouGov polling company - whose results were reviewed by Reuters - concluded Friday that the British and Danes are the most eager to receive the vaccine when they can, while the French and Poles are more reluctant.

The results of the survey also showed that the level of desire to obtain the vaccine increased in many countries in recent weeks, after the start of the distribution of vaccines, which were developed by American, Russian, Chinese, German and British companies, and given them to people in Europe, North America and Asia.

Mutations


Meanwhile, the World Health Organization's emergency committee called on the international community on Friday to expand the activities of the genome chain of the emerging corona virus, the most contagious and troubling, of the virus.

The committee called for a global expansion in genetic sequencing and data sharing, in addition to greater scientific cooperation to deal with basic unknown issues. It also called for developing a "standard system" for naming new variants to avoid any geographic or political "stain".

The British and South African versions of the emerging corona virus, which are highly contagious, are now spreading in at least 50 countries, while the world faces a new wave of infection that isolation, curfew and vaccination measures have failed to stop.

A third mutation originating in the Brazilian Amazon is being analyzed, and Japan announced its discovery Sunday.

And it may affect the immune response, according to the World Health Organization, which spoke in its weekly bulletin about a "disturbing mutant".

Statistics The


new Corona virus has killed more than a million people in the world since the WHO office in China reported the emergence of the disease at the end of December 2019, according to a census conducted by France Press based on official figures Friday.

2,000,066 deaths were recorded, for 93,321,070 declared cases.

Europe, with 650,560 deaths, is the most affected region, ahead of Latin America and the Caribbean (542,410) and the United States and Canada (407,090).

The countries with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths are the United States (389,581), Brazil (207,095), India (151,918), Mexico (137,916), Britain (87,295) and Italy (81,325).

More than half of the deaths in the world were recorded in these six countries combined.

Measures

In terms of precautionary measures, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britons on Friday to stay home and not go out, and Johnson said in a video message, "Please think twice before leaving the house this weekend, and only go out if it is absolutely necessary. It is safer." Assume you may have COVID-19 ″.

In Italy, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte issued a new decision to extend the restrictions imposed to contain Covid-19 infections, after the Ministry of Health warned that the outbreak of the epidemic is getting worse.

The number of daily HIV infections in Italy ranges between 15,000 and 20,000, compared to a peak of 40,000 in mid-November.

But the level of pressure on hospitals is still high, and between 400 and 600 people with the disease die every day, and the government has prevented this toll from increasing.

In Russia, the Ministry of Education announced that it will reopen schools starting next week, with the exception of 10 schools subject to quarantine, adding that the second wave of the pandemic may have exceeded its climax, with the total number of injuries exceeding 3.5 million.

For its part, the Greek government said that the country will start easing restrictions related to the Corona virus again, starting next Monday, allowing stores in regions with low infection rates to receive customers again.

"We will definitely ease the restrictions," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during a parliamentary session Friday, adding that virologists gave us the green light to do so.