The Director of the European Health Authority said that the world should prepare for the assumption that the Corona virus "will remain with us", while Britain seeks to reduce quarantine pressures, and several countries in the world record a remarkable increase in the number of HIV infections and deaths.

Andrea Amon, director of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, said, "It appears now that (the virus) is more likely to survive," adding, "It seems that it has adapted greatly to humans, we have to prepare (for the hypothesis) that it remains among us."

"It is not the first virus that will remain among us, this is not an uncommon feature of a specific virus," the official in charge of the health authority - which is based in Stockholm - added in an interview with the French Press Agency.

And if vaccines significantly reduce the risk of infection with the Coronavirus, scientists still do not know whether they also prevent transmission from one person to another.

The data are further complicated by the mutated versions - especially those discovered in South Africa and Brazil - because there are doubts that they reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine.

"The issue lies in the implications of this matter for the effectiveness of the vaccine," Amoun added, referring to, for example, seasonal influenza, which requires adapting vaccines as they transform each year.

She also said, "It may happen the same, or that (the virus) witnesses stability at some point, and in light of that, we can use a vaccine for a long time."

Isolate in Australia

And in Australia, the state of Victoria began today, Saturday, a general isolation that will last for 5 days, as the authorities seek to prevent a third wave of the Corona virus linked to the rapidly spreading strain discovered in Britain.

The streets of Melbourne, the state capital, and its suburbs were almost empty today, after orders were issued to residents to stay home and not go out unless necessary.

In China, the National Health Commission said today that it recorded 8 new cases of the virus on Friday, compared to 12 cases the previous day.

The committee stated in a statement that all the cases were imported from abroad, and that it had recorded 14 new, symptom-free infections yesterday, compared to 8 the previous day.

China does not classify asymptomatic injuries as confirmed cases, and the committee's data indicates that the total number of injuries in China has reached 897,56, while the number of deaths remains constant at 4,636.

Ease in Britain

On Friday, Britain came close to achieving its target set for mid-February, which is to vaccinate 15 million of the country's most vulnerable groups against the emerging corona virus (Covid-19), which strengthens hopes that restrictions can be eased.

Infection rates have decreased significantly across Britain in recent weeks, as lockdown measures have enabled control of the number of injuries and cases that require transportation to hospitals, and deaths that were rising dramatically in the past.

The latest statistics issued yesterday by the National Bureau of Statistics regarding recent infections revealed that the number of new infections decreased in almost every region of England, as it was estimated that one person in 80 had contracted the virus last week.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to review all relevant data next week, before drawing up a government "road map" for the coming months on February 22nd.

High mortality

This comes at a time when a number of countries recorded a noticeable increase in the number of infections and deaths with the virus, in Argentina the number of deaths due to infection with the Coronavirus has exceeded 50 thousand cases since the outbreak of the epidemic in it, after 155 deaths were recorded during the past 24 hours.

A statement issued by the Argentine Ministry of Health stated that 7,151 cases of the virus were recorded within 24 hours, which raised the total number of infections to two million and 15 thousand and 496 cases, while the total number of people recovered reached one million and 814 thousand and 160 recovered.

France recorded more than 20 thousand new infections with the new Corona virus during the past 24 hours.

A statement issued by the French Public Health Authority stated that the country witnessed during the last 24 hours the registration of 20 thousand and 701 cases of the virus, bringing the total number of cases to 3 million 427 thousand and 386 cases.

The statement also indicated that the last 24 hours witnessed the death of 320 people due to their infection with Corona, bringing the total deaths to 81,448 cases.

Peru - which is facing a second wave of "Covid-19" - recorded a record yesterday in the number of HIV infections that require hospitalization, according to what the Ministry of Health announced.

During the past 24 hours, 213 new people infected with the virus entered hospitals, bringing the total number of patients there to 14,333, according to official figures.

The previous record for HIV infections requiring hospitalization was 14,181 on August 17.

As of Friday, Peru had recorded one million 229,748 confirmed cases of Covid-19 (an increase of 8,439 in the past 24 hours), in addition to 43,255 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health report.

Iran too

Official media reported that Iran had declared 10 regions in the southwest of the country high-risk areas of the "red" degree in terms of the spread of infection with the Covid-19 virus, with the arrival of a shipment of 100,000 doses of the "Sputnik-V" vaccine. Russian to the country yesterday.

Iran launched a vaccination campaign last Tuesday, two weeks after it announced that it no longer has cities where the risk level reaches the "red" color.

Iran is the Middle East country most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and the vaccination campaign focuses on workers in intensive care departments in hospitals, while the authorities are waiting for the arrival of enough vaccines to be offered to citizens.

State TV stated that 100,000 out of two million doses of a shipment of "Sputnik-V" vaccine ordered by Iran arrived on Friday, and that Russia may increase the number of doses to 5 million doses and allow Iran to produce the vaccine locally.