Japan sets a new Corona vaccination program this week

Britain announces the start of controlling the spread of the Brazil and South African strains

Boris Johnson announces today a roadmap to ease the third general isolation in Britain.

Reuters

Britain announced yesterday that its more stringent border measures and measures to strengthen contact tracing have apparently succeeded in limiting the spread of the two Corona virus strains discovered in Brazil and South Africa, stressing that they prioritize confronting the virus more than transparency.

For its part, Japan said that it will present a summary of a new vaccination program against the Corona virus this week.

In detail, British Health Minister Matt Hancock said that the most stringent border measures and measures to enhance contact tracing have succeeded in limiting the spread of the two Corona virus strains discovered in Brazil and South Africa.

The minister added that a roadmap to ease the third public isolation in England, scheduled to be published today (Monday), should allow time to analyze the data because the government remains concerned that strains undermine the introduction of vaccines.

However, he told Sky News that the initial signs were encouraging.

"There is evidence that the measures that we are taking, whether strengthening contact tracing or more stringent measures at the border, are successful," he said.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to announce the road map today (Monday).

In response to a question about the next steps, Hancock said, "It is very important to see the effect of the steps we take ... We want to create a roadmap that provides people with guidance on how we think we will be able to accomplish this."

We will be awaiting the data.

He added, "We have seen other new strains, and fortunately there are very, very few cases in this country now, but we have to protect them."

He pointed out that the preliminary data shows that the spread of infection has decreased, and that the number of infected people who are hospitalized is declining sharply compared to that of the first wave of the pandemic.

The minister stated that the government had failed to meet some deadlines for publishing contracts related to the emerging corona virus, because it was "moving at an amazing speed" to secure equipment at the height of the pandemic, according to Bloomberg News.

Hancock was responding to a court decision, issued Friday, that he found failed to comply with the government's policies on transparency.

The group that filed the lawsuit stated that if "the government continues not to publish notices about awarding contracts within 30 days, it does so knowing full well that it is violating the law."

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing numerous lawsuits over his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, from the availability of medical equipment to student exam results.

The total number of confirmed cases of the emerging coronavirus in the United Kingdom reached 4.12 million as of yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.

The data showed that the total number of deaths in the United Kingdom due to infection with "Covid-19" disease reached 120,593.

In Tokyo, the Minister responsible for the vaccination program against the Corona virus in Japan, Taro Kono, said yesterday that the government will present a summary about a new vaccination program against the Corona virus this week, according to the Japanese news agency, GG Press.

Japan began vaccinations against the Corona virus, starting with medical personnel, last Wednesday, and the government intends to vaccinate the elderly next April.

However, there is no specific schedule to vaccinate other people, amid uncertainty about vaccine supplies, which raised concerns among municipal officials about how to prepare.

"A specific decision has to be made this week," Kono said on television.

He added that the government will expand vaccinations to the elderly in stages, due to the limited supply of the vaccine.

The vaccination campaign in Japan uses the Pfizer vaccine.

The second shipment of the vaccine, which contains about 450 thousand doses, arrived at Narita International Airport near Tokyo yesterday.

In Brazil, the total number of confirmed cases of the emerging coronavirus reached 10.14 million as of yesterday.

Data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News showed that the total number of deaths in Brazil as a result of the "Covid-19" disease caused by infection with the virus reached 245,977.

And in Moscow, the Russian health authorities announced yesterday that 417 deaths and 12,742 new cases of Corona virus were recorded in the country, during the past 24 hours.

The website of the "RT Al Arabiya" channel quoted the operations center for combating the spread of the Corona virus, that the total deaths rose to 83,293 cases.

The total confirmed cases of "Corona" in Russia increased to four million and 164,726 injuries.

• Russia records 417 deaths and 12,742 new cases of Coronavirus.

• Corona injuries in Brazil, 10.14 million cases, and 245,977 deaths.

• The number of confirmed cases of Coronavirus in Britain has reached 4.12 million.

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