The daily death toll from Coronavirus in the United States decreased to less than a hundred thousand, for the first time in months, while researchers at a British university identified a new mutation of the virus.

And 40 US states witnessed a decrease of about 25%, while 10 states recorded a slight decrease.

According to NBC, last Sunday the United States recorded about 780 deaths, the first time since last November that the daily death toll fell to less than a thousand.

It is noteworthy that the United States recorded more than 27 million cases of Coronavirus, while deaths approached 490,000.

New boom

At the University of Edinburgh, Britain, researchers confirmed the identification of a new mutation of the Corona virus, which they called "B1525" (B1525), using genome sequences of virus samples in 10 countries, including Britain.

The researchers said that this new mutation of the virus has a set of factors that may be worrisome, including a mutation in the spike protein, which is also found in the Brazilian and South African strains of the Corona virus, which makes it more resistant to antibodies.

The Guardian newspaper indicated that researchers have discovered in Britain at least 32 cases of this new phase of the virus, while similar cases were found in Denmark, Nigeria, the United States, France, Ghana, Australia, Canada, Jordan and Spain.

Program for studying mutated copies

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced that the Commission will launch, on Wednesday, a program to study mutated versions of the Corona virus.

Von der Leyen said - in an interview with the French newspaper "Les Echos" - that the program, which was called "Hera Incubator", "will bring together laboratories, health authorities, scientists and the European Commission and will allocate large funds to it", without explaining the value of these funds. .

She added, "From now, and in parallel with the efforts made on current vaccines, we must help manufacturers develop capabilities to produce" second-generation "vaccines, noting that" these mutated versions worry us a lot. "

The European Commission had announced its intention to launch a new European agency, the Health Emergency Response Authority (HERA), with the aim of combating future epidemics and improving coordination between the twenty-seven EU countries.

And on Sunday, the European Health Commission announced that the European Medicines Agency will accelerate the licensing mechanism for new vaccines for Corona, in an effort to better address the mutated versions of Covid-19.

These are the latest developments related to the spread of the Coronavirus around the world in light of the latest numbers and new measures:

Netherlands .. The judiciary defies the curfew

A court in The Hague ruled Tuesday that the Dutch government should lift the curfew currently in place to combat the Covid-19 epidemic that has sparked violent riots in the country.

According to the court, the "urgency" of adopting such a measure had not been demonstrated.

In early February, the Dutch government announced the extension of the curfew throughout the country from 21:00 until 04:30 until March 2.

Japan .. start of pollination

Japan confirmed that it will launch its vaccination campaign against the Corona virus on Wednesday, and it will start giving vaccines at first to hospital employees, while the rest of the population will have to wait weeks or even months to obtain it, as the Olympic Games approaches.

In the next stage, vaccinations will be given to other health workers.

It will not be given to the elderly until next April at the earliest.

Chile .. vaccinating teachers

Chile, which was among the first countries in Latin America to launch a comprehensive vaccination campaign on December 24, began on Monday vaccinating teachers in preparation for the reopening of schools on the first of next month.

In total, more than 513,000 teachers and employees in schools and nurseries will be vaccinated.

The government hopes to complete the vaccination of the most vulnerable groups (about 5 million) before the 30th of next March, and to vaccinate 10 million people before the 30th of next June in a country of 36 million people.

Morocco ... 500 thousand doses

Sources in the Ministry of Health said that Morocco received today, Tuesday, a second batch of 500 thousand doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against the Coronavirus, as part of the national vaccination campaign against the virus.

Thus, Morocco has so far obtained one million doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, in addition to 6 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India for the serum and vaccine.

By Monday, the number of vaccinated people in Morocco had reached 1.7 million, the largest number being vaccinated in any country on the African continent.

The last numbers

Corona virus has killed more than 2.4 million people in the world since the WHO office in China reported the outbreak of the disease at the end of December 2019, according to a census conducted by the French Press Agency based on official sources on Tuesday.

The United States is the country most affected by the epidemic, as it approached 490,000 deaths, followed by Brazil, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.