Egypt begins a vaccination campaign for medical staff in isolation hospitals

Europeans call on Corona vaccine producers to be "transparent"

A health care worker receives a dose of the Coronavirus vaccine at Andras Josa Hospital in Hungary.

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The European Union called on vaccine production companies to be "transparent", after "AstraZeneca" and "Pfizer" announced the delay in delivering doses, and while the British Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, said that it is still too early to talk about canceling the restrictions imposed to contain the outbreak of the Corona virus, Yesterday, Egypt started a vaccination campaign for medical staff in isolation hospitals for Corona patients.

With the worsening situation in Europe due to the delay in delivering vaccines, the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, yesterday called on pharmaceutical companies to "be transparent" about the reasons for the delay in delivering the Corona vaccines, which were announced by "AstraZeneca" and "Pfizer", and said that " What we are asking for from these companies is a transparent dialogue. ”

Michel added in a statement to "Europe 1" radio, "Senuse" channel and "Les Echos" newspaper: "It is certain that we intend to implement the contracts that have been ratified by the pharmaceutical companies," stressing that "we must work to clarify the reasons for announcing the delays in sometimes".

In London, the British Minister of Health, Matt Hancock, said that it was still too early to talk about canceling the restrictions imposed to contain the outbreak of the Corona virus.

In an interview with Sky News, he added that there are "preliminary indications" that show that the strict restrictions imposed in the United Kingdom have begun to reduce the number of cases of Coronavirus, but he warned that the health care services sector is still facing "great" pressure.

On easing the lockdown measures, Hancock said that the current rules help in "reducing cases", but it will be a long time before the country witnesses "achieving rates low enough to ease measures."

Hancock refused to say that Britain should have closed its borders to protect its citizens from the new strains of the "Corona" virus, such as those discovered in South Africa and Brazil, and said that these two strains may "have a lesser response to the vaccine towards them", warning: "We do not know the degree of this." distance".

In Egypt, the Minister of Health and Population, Hala Zayed, witnessed the start of vaccination with the new Corona virus vaccine for medical teams inside Abu Khalifah Isolation Hospital in Ismailia, yesterday.

The Ministry of Health stated that the vaccinations are safe, and have undergone all the analyzes that have proven their effectiveness, noting that the study proved the effectiveness of the vaccine by 86%, and that its success in generating antibodies reached 99%, and the ability to prevent it from occurring moderate or violent injuries reached 100%.

The Ministry added that more than 36 centers have been allocated in the Republic, which will undertake the distribution of the vaccine to citizens, at the forefront of which are the first groups with vaccination, which are: medical staff in isolation, chest and fever hospitals, then people with chronic diseases and the elderly.

In India, the massive vaccination campaign is experiencing delays, with a third of people not attending the scheduled dates, technical errors surrounding it, and the belief that the epidemic is about to end.

In the United States, the country most affected by the epidemic in the world, US President Joe Biden warned that the number of deaths may exceed 600,000.

According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the total number of HIV infections in the United States has risen to nearly 25 million, since the start of the pandemic about a year ago until yesterday.

And left-wing parties and organizations organized protests in Brazil, which witnessed a march of about 500 cars that sounded their horns in the ministries square in the capital, Brasilia, and among the slogans raised was "vaccination for all".

In France, new restrictions came into effect to prevent the spread of "Covid-19". As of yesterday, arrivals to France from the European Union countries, by air or sea, must present the result of an examination conducted 72 hours before the maximum, proving that they are not infected with "Corona" .

The Norwegian capital, Oslo, tightened health restrictions, after detecting cases of the mutated version of "Corona" in a home for the elderly, while the Netherlands imposed a curfew for the first time since World War II.

• Britain: It is still too early to cancel the restrictions imposed to contain the "Corona" virus.

• Corona injuries in the United States approach 25 million.

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