Corona ... vaccinating more than 225 million people around the world, and the US Food and Drug Administration approves the Johnson vaccine

Vaccine advisors at the Food and Drug Administration agreed to recommend that the "emergency use" of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine, produced by the American company Johnson & Johnson, be granted.

A vote in this regard resulted in the unanimous approval of the members of the Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Biological Products at the Food and Drug Administration, to make this vaccine available to people of 18 years of age and over.

Dr. Janet Woodcock, Acting President of the Food and Drug Authority, and Dr. Peter Marks, Chief Vaccination Officer at the Authority, said - in a statement after the vote - that the decision to grant "emergency use authority will be taken quickly, and partners at the federal level have been informed to implement their plans to accelerate the distribution of the vaccine."

This vaccine is the third to be granted validity for use in the United States, but it will be the first in a single dose and can be stored in conventional refrigerators, making it easier to distribute than the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech or the vaccine. Moderna, which requires two doses and requires more complex storage conditions.

Vaccination updates

Data from Johns Hopkins University and the Bloomberg News Agency showed - on Saturday - that a total of more than 225 million doses of the vaccine against Covid-19 have been administered worldwide.

The latest vaccination rate is estimated at 4.54 million doses per day, based on reports received in this regard.

At this rate, giving two doses of the vaccine to 75% of the world's population is expected to take 6 years and 9 months.

The data also showed that nearly 20 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were given in the United Kingdom, and the average rate of vaccination in the United Kingdom is estimated at 349,781 doses per day.

On the other hand, the UN Security Council adopted - Friday - a resolution calling on rich countries to donate doses of anti-Coronavirus vaccines to poor and conflict-affected countries.

This came in press statements by the President of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Barbara Woodward, at the permanent headquarters of the United Nations in New York.

Woodward reported that the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for the donation of doses of vaccines to countries with advanced economies to low and middle income countries and other countries affected by conflict.

The Council's decision stressed the urgent need for solidarity, fairness and effectiveness in combating the epidemic in countries with limited access to vaccines.

The US House of Representatives also approved a $ 1.9 trillion economic aid package proposed by President Joe Biden to counter the repercussions of the Corona pandemic.

And endorsed the package by 219 deputies compared to the refusal of 212, including two from the Democratic Party joined all the Republicans in the House to oppose it.

Hope and optimism

Hospital admissions due to the emerging corona virus (Covid-19) in the United States have fallen to their lowest levels since the presidential elections about 3 months ago, even as the rate of new infections rose to the highest level in the past two weeks, according to the Financial Times newspaper. British Times in its issue today.

The newspaper said - according to data published by the Covid Tracking Project in the United States - that the number of people infected with the virus, who are currently in American hospitals, decreased to 51,116 infected, after it was 52,669 infected yesterday, and this was the lowest number of Sickness since Americans went to the polls on November 3.

Hospital admission rates have now decreased by more than 60% from their peak in January, which was 132,474 cases, but the latest rates are still hovering around the high levels witnessed last summer.

For his part, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced yesterday that the state of emergency will be lifted on Sunday in 6 provinces, less than 5 months before the Olympic Games, with the decline in the rate of infection with the Corona virus.

However, this measure will remain in effect at least until March 7 in 4 other provinces, including Greater Tokyo, where the Olympic Games postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic are scheduled to open on July 23.

Global Statistics

A Reuters census showed that more than 113.25 million people were infected with the emerging coronavirus worldwide, while the total number of deaths resulting from the virus reached 2 million 616 thousand and 898 people.

HIV infections have been recorded in more than 210 countries and regions since the first cases were discovered in China in December 2019.