Many countries are concerned about the spread of new versions
Moderna vaccine is effective against the British and South African mutated versions
Moderna confirmed that it worked on developing an additional dose to increase protection against mutated copies. ■ Archives
The American biotechnology company Moderna announced, in a statement yesterday, that the vaccine against "Covid-19", which it developed, is still effective against the mutated British and South African versions of the virus, while several countries have imposed concern about the spread of new versions of the virus, including the United States and France. And Israel, new restrictions on entering its territories, and tightening health measures, sparked demonstrations, as is the case in the Netherlands in particular, where confrontations occurred between protesters against the curfew and the security forces.
In detail, the American company Moderna confirmed at the end of the experiments that experts expect the vaccine to protect against infection of the "mutated versions discovered to date" in Britain and South Africa.
Moderna says it has developed an additional dose to increase protection against mutated copies.
In Washington, the ban on entry to the United States will be applied to most non-American citizens, who went to Britain and a large part of Europe, as well as Brazil and South Africa, according to a White House official.
The head of the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that the authority is intensifying its efforts to track changes in the Corona virus, to ensure that the vaccines and treatments "Covid-19" remain ahead of the new variants of the disease, until collective immunity is achieved.
The day before yesterday, the United States officially crossed the threshold of 25 million new infections with the Coronavirus, since the start of the epidemic.
The reference Johns Hopkins University counted the infection of 25 million and 3695 people, pointing out that more than 417 thousand people had died of "Covid-19" in the country.
The pandemic has caused the death of two million 121 thousand and 70 people in the world, and the virus has infected 98.6 million since its emergence at the end of 2019, according to a census by Agence France-Presse.
And concern about the mutating virus led to tightening measures and restrictions in many countries, which aroused opposition from part of the population.
Dutch cities witnessed several confrontations with the police and looting, the day before yesterday, during demonstrations against the imposition of the curfew, which necessitated the arrest of dozens of people in different parts of the country.
In The Hague and Eindhoven, cars and shops were burned.
And on Saturday, a fire was set at a "Covid-19" testing center in the town of Urk, in the north of the Netherlands.
And in Denmark, police arrested three people suspected of having burned a doll in the form of the prime minister, during a demonstration on Saturday night in Copenhagen.
Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in Madrid, considering the virus a "hoax", while some demonstrators saw that it "does not exist."
Brazil, the second-most affected country in the world after the United States, with 217,037 deaths, has just started the vaccination campaign.
After 10 days of a night curfew, Amazonas will lock down for a week, starting yesterday.
Manaus, the capital of this northwestern state, witnessed more than 3,000 burials during January, the deadliest in terms of the pandemic, while hospitals exceeded their maximum capacity due to the significant rise in injuries.
It is officially reported that the virus is responsible for half of these deaths.
The Nossa Senora Aparaisida Cemetery, the largest in the city, has begun expansion work to receive an additional 2,000 to 3,000 bodies.
In Mexico, where the pandemic claimed the lives of more than 146 thousand people, President Andres Lopez Obrador (67 years) announced, the day before yesterday, that he was infected with "Covid-19" but that he suffers only "minor symptoms".
And new restrictions were imposed in many countries, to face concerns about new versions of the virus.
France, which originally imposed a strict curfew, tightened checks at the border, requiring that travelers coming from the European Union be presented with a negative check.
This procedure was required of arrivals from other countries.
Sweden prevented, yesterday, for a period of three weeks, entry to its territory for arrivals from Denmark, after the emergence of a focus of the new British version of the virus near Oslo, while extending the same procedure against arrivals from Britain and Denmark.
On Saturday, Norway announced a partial closure in Oslo and its suburbs, in a measure that is the most stringent since the start of the pandemic.
Israel, which vaccinated 2.5 million of its 9 million population, announced the suspension of international flights until January 31.
In Europe, condemnation is high for the reported delay in the delivery of the AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines.
The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, called for pharmaceutical companies to be "transparent".
The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, confirmed yesterday that the prosecutions announced by Italy aimed at "getting the doses" promised from the testers.
Next week, Germany, which is severely suffering from a resurgence of the virus, will be the first country in the European Union to use an experimental treatment, based on antibodies, given to former US President Donald Trump, when he was infected with the virus.
Australia, for its part, issued the first license for a vaccine, Pfizer, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced yesterday.
The vaccination will start at the end of next February.
Portuguese voters voted, amid a general lockdown, in a presidential election that led to the re-election of President Marcelo Ybelo de Sousa.
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anxiety led the mutated virus to tightening measures and restrictions in many countries.
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