AstraZeneca denies withdrawing from a meeting with the European Union on vaccines

"Covid-19" injuries in the world exceed 100 million people

Elderly Dutch (91 years) receives the Coronavirus vaccine in Apeldoorn.

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The number of people infected with the new Corona virus worldwide exceeded 100 million, yesterday, according to a census, while more than 2.1 million died due to disease, and while the British pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca denied that it had withdrawn from a meeting organized by the European Union to clarify the reasons for its delay in delivering vaccines against the Corona virus The French pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, said it plans to produce 125 million doses of the Pfizer - Biontech vaccine for the European Union.

In detail, a Reuters statistics showed that global cases of Coronavirus exceeded 100 million yesterday, with the continued spread of new strains of the virus and countries facing a shortage of vaccines.

About 1.3% of the world's population has been infected with "Covid-19", and more than 2.1 million have died from the disease.

An individual is infected with the virus every 7.7 seconds on average since the start of the year.

The countries most affected by the pandemic, which are the United States, Brazil, Russia and Britain, account for more than half of the recorded infections, but they represent 28% of the world's population, according to Reuters analysis.

It took 11 months to record the first 50 million injuries, compared to only three months, for that number to double and reach 100 million.

Almost 65 countries began vaccinating their people from the Corona virus, giving at least 64 million doses.

With 25 million cases recorded, the United States accounts for a quarter of the "Covid-19" cases recorded in the world, although it does not represent only 4% of its population.

The United States leads the world in the daily average of new deaths recorded.

The United States recorded just under 425,000 deaths, which is twice the number of deaths in Brazil, the world's second highest death from Corona.

Europe is the region in the world worst affected by the pandemic, and it is currently registering one million new infections approximately every four days, and has detected about 30 million cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

In London, the British shadow government criticized how the government dealt with the Corona pandemic during the past year, a day after the death toll from the virus exceeded 100,000 cases.

In response to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's apology to the country for his government's actions, in addition to saying that they have done everything in their power to curb the spread of the virus, Shadow Health Minister Jonathan Ashworth told Sky News yesterday: “I don't accept their saying that they have done everything. They can ».

In India, the second-highest country in the world infected with Corona, yesterday it recorded about 12,000 cases and 137 deaths from the virus.

As for China, which recently commemorated the first anniversary of the world's first general isolation due to Corona in the city of Wuhan, it is facing the worst wave of domestic infections since March of last year.

As rich countries race in mass vaccination campaigns, Africa is still struggling to obtain supplies, while facing fears of mutated strains of the Corona virus, the most severe infection that first appeared in South Africa and Britain.

Reuters' statistics indicates that Africa recorded about 3.5 million injuries, which were detected in at least 20 countries.

Vaccination campaigns began a month ago, and more than 63.5 million people were vaccinated in 68 countries or regions in the world.

For its part, the British pharmaceutical group, AstraZeneca, denied that it withdrew from a meeting organized by the European Union, yesterday, to explain the reasons for its delay in delivering vaccines against the emerging corona virus, confirming its intention to participate in a second meeting.

"We have not withdrawn, we will attend the meeting with representatives of the European Union," a spokesman for the group said in a statement, after a senior European official told AFP that the group "withdrew" from the meeting yesterday morning.

While the European Union is expected to give the green light tomorrow, Friday, to use this vaccine, AstraZeneca announced last week that the doses it will receive will be less than what was planned in the first quarter due to the "decline in productivity" of one of the European manufacturing sites.

The AstraZeneca laboratory, which announced a reduction in the amount of vaccines in the first quarter, was called twice on Monday to clarify its position before representatives of Member States and the European Commission.

AstraZeneca, Chairman of the Board of Directors of "AstraZeneca", Pascal Surio, confirmed that the British pharmaceutical group "definitely does not take vaccines from Europeans to sell them elsewhere at a profit."

Laboratories partnering with the University of Oxford have pledged not to make a profit from selling vaccines during the pandemic.

For its part, the French pharmaceutical company, Sanofi, intends to supply more than 125 million doses of the anti-Corona vaccine developed by German companies, Biontech and Pfizer, to the European Union, starting next summer.

The company announced yesterday that it intends to grant the company "Biontech" the right to access its production infrastructure in order to carry out "manufacturing steps in its late stages", to support the supply of the vaccine.

Sanofi plans to produce 125 million doses of the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine for the European Union.

The British opposition criticizes the government's handling of the Corona pandemic crisis.

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