Acceleration is the magic word today. The US accelerates, with Biden wanting to vaccinate everyone in the US by May; accelerates Israel, the most efficient country in the world in mass vaccination, which reopens restaurants and international flights. He calls for an acceleration in Europe, where pressure is growing on the chancelleries for that confrontation with the inconvenient neighbor, the United Kingdom. Welt In the graph, the trend of vaccine supplies and their effective administration. Nearly 3 million and 200 thousand doses of Astra Zeneca are expected to be delivered to the Lander by tomorrow, according to information from the Federal Ministry of Health. According to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), however, only 514,000 doses were administered up to and including last Monday. Dear Chancellor, Germany's patience is running out The coronavirus has kept us in a kind of restless state of emergency for a year now. It requires a lot from everyone. The Germans have endured a lot already. In the beginning, their personal responsibility and obedience were almost exemplary. But approval is crumbling and rapidly waning in parts of the country. Why? Because the nonchalance in obtaining the vaccine is as incomprehensible as the apparent excess of uninoculated doses. At the end of this month, if the vaccination rate remains so unambitious, there could be five million doses in stock. This is why we ask our Chancellor if the time has come to move towards a restart, towards a safe, not rapid and complete, non-bureaucratic and radically pragmatic vaccination policy. After more than a year of crisis, practical decisions are needed, otherwise it is not just the freedom of citizens at stake. Bild Debacle endless vaccination, confinement until just before Easter Today from 14, Chancellor Angela Merkel will see the prime ministers of the Lander at the coronavirus summit in a video conference. And the controversy is inevitable, because the Chancellery hardly wants to allow a relaxation of the restrictions. In a ten-page document from the Chancellery released yesterday, Merkel and her Chancellery Minister Helge Braun speak of the reopening of shops, for example, but only with very low incidence values (35 new infections per week per 100,000 inhabitants). The same applies to museums, galleries, zoos and botanical gardens, commemorative events and non-contact sports (max. 10 people) outdoors. Yesterday the incidence in Germany was 65.4 new infections in one week for every 100,000 inhabitants and quickly reaching 35 is almost impossible. Merkel's calculation, according to a parliamentarian who asked BILD anonymity, is simple: "The values are not achieved, so there are no openings". That is, it is not his fault. But Merkel encounters resistance in the grand coalition, from some prime ministers and in the business world. The association of retailers asks that "all shops be authorized to reopen on March 8 on the basis of applicable hygiene standards, even if there is an incidence of over 35 or 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants". Mail on Sunday One injection gives 90% protection One administration reduces the risk of being hospitalized for Covid-19 by more than 90%, according to a surprising new study. Public health officials told ministers that the remarkable results apply to both the Pfizer vaccine and the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine. An encouraging figure while 20 million Britons are already vaccinated with the first dose Tagesspiegel When will it be like it was again? It is one of the most important Crown leaders and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) knows it: the pressure of the economy and of the citizens tormented by the blockade is immense. Several federal states are also threatening to go it alone. And there is also a rumble in the CDU camp. Prime Minister of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, summed it up like this: "People are fed up". There are rumors about today's summit with the Lander. The draft of the registry on the one hand takes into account the risk of an increasing number of infections from virus variants such as B.1.1.7 and at the same time tries to give perspectives of openness. Germany is expected to remain in national lockdown until March 28 but with an easing of restrictions. NDR podcast, Northern German radio Virologist Christian Drosten criticized the state's current approach to vaccinations, "German perfectionism," he said in the NDR podcast "The Coronavirus Update". He called for family doctors and company doctors to be urgently involved in the vaccination. Drosten estimates the share of the English variant B.1.1.7 in infections in Germany at around half. The proportion of this more contagious variant will continue to increase, which is inevitable, he said, because in Britain now there are only 'remnants' of other variants, B.1.1.7 is completely dominant. And the restrictions there have been severe for some time, Drosten added. In two nurseries in Mörfelden Walldorf, Hesse, dozens of teachers and children have been infected with the virus, many with the English variant Daily Telegraph Aid maintained but requests for faster reopen increase Rishi Sunak will announce today that the aid scheme current will continue until the fall, although data shows that efforts to counter Covid are exceeding expectations. By unveiling his budget today, the chancellor will pave the way for tens of billions of extra spending, extending support to avoid layoffs and increased refreshments until the end of September for self-employed workers as well. The vast spring and summer spending indicates that the government believes that businesses will not fully return to normal until the fall. This is despite the new analysis showing that the decline in coronavirus deaths in England is about three weeks ahead of estimates in the first government model, fueling calls for a faster reopening. Sunak will justify the decisions by stating that he will do "whatever is necessary" to protect the British people and businesses in a "time of crisis". But it faces a tough parliamentary debate, with Tory MPs uneasy about rising spending levels, and even opposed to the need for a tax hike. The Guardian Sunak extends the safety net In one year, 15 budget-impacting maneuvers, spent £ 280 billion Le Soir The bad choices of the vaccination plan The organization of vaccination stutters: computer bugs, missed calls, vaccination centers deserted ... or overcrowded. Was it appropriate to assign the App that produces the rendezvous to a tiny start-up? No age limit for the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Superior Health Council has ruled in this direction based on the latest studies in the UK. Accept the principle of an extension of the time between doses of the Pfizer vaccine if circumstances require it. Before the vaccination passport, vaccination must be successful Only 25% of the approximately 29,000 health workers on the front line in Brussels responded to the digital invitations to be vaccinated sent in February, Inge Neven, head of hygiene in Brussels, said yesterday. In order to meet the daily quotas despite this low response rate, the Heysel center is open Monday to emergency police officers and health workers from non-residential health communities. The other vaccination centers in Brussels will be open from mid-March. The waiting time to get vaccinated at the Heysel center doubled yesterday. The authorities have sent invitations to local communities, to people from non-priority groups, so as not to find themselves in the same situation as last week. Emin Luka, director of the Brussels Expo, explains that these people have not received a link, via e-mail, to register in advance on the federal platform. The vaccination center staff then had to register each individual one by one, on the spot, which took an enormous amount of time. NYT Biden promises sufficient supplies to vaccinate all adults in the US by May President accelerates: wants to vaccinate all teachers by March but urges them not to let their guard down The new vaccination roadmap outlined after a White House agreement with Merck to increase production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine In the USA trend of new infections in the last 14 days: -21%, deaths: -17% Vaccinated with the first dose 15% of the population (in the United Kingdom 30%) and with the second 7, 7% (in the UK 1.2%) Israel: 53% of the population vaccinated with one dose (38.7% with the second dose) Italy vaccinated with 4.9% 3% Germany: 5.1% and 2.6% respectively Doses administered per 100 residents: in countries with more people vaccinated, the administration from the start of the campaign was very very rapid, as in Israel and the United Kingdom. Much more linear, progressive, vaccination in EU countries Washington Post Texas decision to revoke coronavirus containment efforts comes at a bizarre time Yesterday we heard two major announcements that reshaped what we might expect from the pandemic in the coming months. The second announcement came from President Biden. Thanks in part to a manufacturing agreement between Merck and Johnson & Johnson, the Biden administration now expects there will be enough vaccine doses by the end of May for every American to get a dose. This is a significant acceleration of the estimated date, which potentially means a quicker end to the worst period of the pandemic. About an hour earlier, however, there was another, more disconcerting announcement from Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) that he was issuing an executive order "to lift the mask requirement to reopen Texas at 100. % ". In other words, to completely nullify efforts to contain the virus. The timing of Abbott's announcement is difficult to understand. It has been known for months that vaccines will soon be widely available, which means that frustration with containment measures such as business limits and the requirement to wear masks will decrease as we achieve herd immunity through mass vaccinations. effective. But there is also the spread of more contagious variants, three of which have already been confirmed in Houston, the largest city in Texas. The state has made one of the worst efforts to vaccinate its residents, even as the recent winter storm has negatively impacted. This is the asterisk of Biden's announcement, of course: availability of the vaccine does not mean uniform ability to distribute it quickly. Abbott instead appeals to the Texans' ability to take necessary precautions on their own, an optimism that recent history indicates as unwarranted. Jerusalem Post Israel begins to reopen its skies 3 thousand authorized daily entrances, flights from NYC, Paris, Frankfurt, Kiev The enthusiasm and uncertainty of Jerusalem's restaurateurs, who are now reopening with tables also indoors: we do not know what is happening, they change their minds every week. Satisfaction and doubts about how to reopen after the third WSJ national lockdown Asian countries led the world in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Now some are hampered by the closure of borders and other rules imposed for health security, putting them potentially behind the US and other countries in driving global economic recovery. Countries like China, Thailand and Australia have virtually stopped the coronavirus within their borders by blocking entry to most outsiders and aggressively cracking down on imported infections. Their citizens live almost normal lives and their economies, with a few exceptions, have not suffered as severe setbacks as those in the West. China managed to grow its gross domestic product by 2.3% last year. But that success has made it less urgent for many Asian countries to move quickly in vaccinating their citizens, as few get sick. Most Asian countries have only a small percentage of their population vaccinated, and most Asian economies won't achieve herd immunity until 2022, Goldman Sachs estimates. The US and UK are likely to have vaccinated half of their residents by May, according to Goldman Sachs forecasts. This could leave some Asian countries in a pattern of freezing outward restrictions, forced to keep their borders sealed as their populations have developed little natural immunity to the disease, even as parts of the world reopen to international business and travel. From La Tercera editorial team (Chile) Peru: trial against Alberto Fujimori for "forced sterilization of women" begins. A Peruvian judge opened the trial on Monday against former president Alberto Fujimori and other former officials currently in prison, accused of "forced sterilization" of thousands of poor women, many of them indigenous, between 1996 and 2000. Among others defendants are former health ministers, Alejandro Aguinaga (current congressional candidate for Fujimori), Eduardo Yong Motta and Marino Costa Bauer. There are two other former local officials accused. Fujimori and the other defendants, "have done a lot of damage with their politics," said prosecutor Pablo Espinoza as he presented the charges, in a virtual hearing that had a Quechua-language translator because some of the victims are indigenous, people who are not they speak spanish. An estimated 270,000 Peruvians have undergone fallopian tube ligation operations as part of Fujimori's National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program over the past four years in power. In addition to the possible convictions of the accused, the victims could be compensated by the state, by virtue of a reform of the Comprehensive reparation plan for the victims of the internal armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and 2000. Currently the former president of Japanese descent, now 82, is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations, and ruled Peru between 1990 and 2000. Rossiyskaya Gazeta If it hadn't been for Gorby The first and only president of the USSR turns 90 Gorbachev, no matter how you treat him, no matter what you call him, destroyer or creator, has written his name in Russian and world history. By the time Gorbachev came to power, the country was incurably ill. Surely the Soviet era could have ended less painfully, but the USSR was doomed. Gorby arrived at the fall of the curtain. However, his perestroika has heartened many people for some time. It has awakened the hopes. Gorbachev's Glasnost encouraged faith: finally the truth! But faith could not be assimilated on an empty stomach. And Gorbachev, realizing this, led the immense country along the way, not assuming a soft transition, but an orderly and planned one, where the change of the socialist formation to another seemed real, but not rapid, avoiding the crash, with a long-term perspective with the preservation of the country, handed down from the ancestors, on the new principles. Gorbachev's comrades in arms dwindled with each passing day as general secretary and then first, and last, president of the Soviet Union. The old cadres, experienced bureaucrats, resisted in silence, but fiercely. And Mikhail Sergeyevich's close entourage could provide neither an ideological platform nor economic support. A man named Gorby began traveling the world in search of money. Loans were made, with no possibility of repaying them. The knot has become tighter. The Soviet Union, once deemed indestructible and indissoluble, ended up in a sack with a noose around its neck. Mikhail Sergeyevich wanted peace on earth. Gorbachev, in fact, has negotiated with the West. They promised him, solemnly sworn that the rival NATO would never approach the borders of the USSR after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from all sides, and in the shortest possible time. And that the Atlantic Alliance would never expand. He believed. How he believed himself. And it should instead have signed agreements, concluded official treaties with binding clauses.This could leave some Asian countries in a pattern of freezing outward restrictions, forced to keep their borders sealed as their populations have developed little natural immunity to the disease, even as parts of the world reopen to international business and travel. From La Tercera editorial team (Chile) Peru: trial against Alberto Fujimori for "forced sterilization of women" begins. A Peruvian judge opened the trial on Monday against former president Alberto Fujimori and other former officials currently in prison, accused of "forced sterilization" of thousands of poor women, many of them indigenous, between 1996 and 2000. Among others defendants are former health ministers, Alejandro Aguinaga (current congressional candidate for Fujimori), Eduardo Yong Motta and Marino Costa Bauer. There are two other former local officials accused. Fujimori and the other defendants, "have done a lot of damage with their politics," said prosecutor Pablo Espinoza as he presented the charges, in a virtual hearing that had a Quechua-language translator because some of the victims are indigenous, people who are not they speak spanish. An estimated 270,000 Peruvians have undergone fallopian tube ligation operations as part of Fujimori's National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program over the past four years in power. In addition to the possible convictions of the accused, the victims could be compensated by the state, by virtue of a reform of the Comprehensive reparation plan for the victims of the internal armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and 2000. Currently the former president of Japanese descent, now 82, is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations, and ruled Peru between 1990 and 2000. Rossiyskaya Gazeta If it hadn't been for Gorby The first and only president of the USSR turns 90 Gorbachev, no matter how you treat him, no matter what you call him, destroyer or creator, has written his name in Russian and world history. By the time Gorbachev came to power, the country was incurably ill. Surely the Soviet era could have ended less painfully, but the USSR was doomed. Gorby arrived at the fall of the curtain. However, his perestroika has heartened many people for some time. It has awakened the hopes. Gorbachev's Glasnost encouraged faith: finally the truth! But faith could not be assimilated on an empty stomach. And Gorbachev, realizing this, led the immense country along the way, not assuming a soft transition, but an orderly and planned one, where the change of the socialist formation to another seemed real, but not rapid, avoiding the crash, with a long-term perspective with the preservation of the country, handed down from the ancestors, on the new principles. Gorbachev's comrades in arms dwindled with each passing day as general secretary and then first, and last, president of the Soviet Union. The old cadres, experienced bureaucrats, resisted in silence, but fiercely. And Mikhail Sergeyevich's close entourage could provide neither an ideological platform nor economic support. A man named Gorby began traveling the world in search of money. Loans were made, with no possibility of repaying them. The knot has become tighter. The Soviet Union, once deemed indestructible and indissoluble, ended up in a sack with a noose around its neck. Mikhail Sergeyevich wanted peace on earth. Gorbachev, in fact, has negotiated with the West. They promised him, solemnly sworn that the rival NATO would never approach the borders of the USSR after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from all sides, and in the shortest possible time. And that the Atlantic Alliance would never expand. He believed. How he believed himself. And it should instead have signed agreements, concluded official treaties with binding clauses.This could leave some Asian countries in an outward restriction freeze pattern, forced to keep their borders sealed as their populations have developed little natural immunity to the disease, even as parts of the world reopen to international business and travel. From La Tercera editorial team (Chile) Peru: trial against Alberto Fujimori for "forced sterilization of women" begins. A Peruvian judge opened the trial on Monday against former president Alberto Fujimori and other former officials currently in prison, accused of "forced sterilization" of thousands of poor women, many of them indigenous, between 1996 and 2000. Among others defendants are former health ministers, Alejandro Aguinaga (current congressional candidate for Fujimori), Eduardo Yong Motta and Marino Costa Bauer. There are two other former local officials accused. Fujimori and the other defendants, "have done a lot of damage with their politics," said prosecutor Pablo Espinoza as he presented the charges, in a virtual hearing that had a Quechua-language translator because some of the victims are indigenous, people who are not they speak spanish. An estimated 270,000 Peruvians have undergone fallopian tube ligation operations as part of Fujimori's National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program over the past four years in power. In addition to the possible convictions of the accused, the victims could be compensated by the state, under a reform of the Comprehensive Reparation Plan for the victims of the internal armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and 2000. Currently the former president of Japanese descent, now 82, is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations, and ruled Peru between 1990 and 2000. Rossiyskaya Gazeta If it hadn't been for Gorby The first and only president of the USSR turns 90 Gorbachev, no matter how you treat him, no matter what you call him, destroyer or creator, has written his name in Russian and world history. By the time Gorbachev came to power, the country was incurably ill. Surely the Soviet era could have ended less painfully, but the USSR was doomed. Gorby arrived at the fall of the curtain. However, his perestroika has heartened many people for some time. It has awakened the hopes. Gorbachev's Glasnost encouraged faith: finally the truth! But faith could not be assimilated on an empty stomach. And Gorbachev, realizing this, led the immense country along the way, not assuming a soft transition, but an orderly and planned one, where the change of the socialist formation to another seemed real, but not rapid, avoiding the crash, with a long-term perspective with the preservation of the country, handed down from the ancestors, on the new principles. Gorbachev's comrades in arms dwindled with each passing day as general secretary and then first, and last, president of the Soviet Union. The old cadres, experienced bureaucrats, resisted in silence, but fiercely. And Mikhail Sergeyevich's close entourage could provide neither an ideological platform nor economic support. A man named Gorby began traveling the world in search of money. Loans were made, with no possibility of repaying them. The knot has become tighter. The Soviet Union, once deemed indestructible and indissoluble, ended up in a sack with a noose around its neck. Mikhail Sergeyevich wanted peace on earth. Gorbachev, in fact, has negotiated with the West. They promised him, solemnly sworn that the rival NATO would never approach the borders of the USSR after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from all sides, and in the shortest possible time. And that the Atlantic Alliance would never expand. He believed. How he believed himself. And it should instead have signed agreements, concluded official treaties with binding clauses.
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by Paolo Cappelli
03 March 2021 Acceleration is the magic word of today.
The US accelerates, with Biden wanting to vaccinate everyone in the US by May;
accelerates Israel, the most efficient country in the world in mass vaccination, which reopens restaurants and international flights.
He calls for an acceleration in Europe, where pressure is growing on the chancelleries for that confrontation with the inconvenient neighbor, the United Kingdom.
Welt
In the graph, the trend of vaccine supplies and their effective administration.
Nearly 3 million and 200 thousand doses of Astra Zeneca are expected to be delivered to the Lander by tomorrow, according to information from the Federal Ministry of Health.
According to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), however, only 514,000 doses were administered up to and including last Monday.
Dear Chancellor, Germany's patience is running out
The coronavirus has kept us in a kind of restless state of emergency for a year now.
It requires a lot from everyone.
The Germans have endured a lot already.
In the beginning, their personal responsibility and obedience were almost exemplary.
But approval is crumbling and rapidly waning in parts of the country.
Why?
Because the nonchalance in obtaining the vaccine is as incomprehensible as the apparent excess of uninoculated doses.
At the end of this month, if the vaccination rate remains so unambitious, there could be five million doses in stock.
This is why we ask our Chancellor if the time has come to move towards a restart, towards a safe, not rapid and complete, non-bureaucratic and radically pragmatic vaccination policy.
After more than a year of crisis, practical decisions are needed, otherwise it is not just the freedom of citizens at stake.
Bild
Debacle endless vaccination, confinement until just before Easter
Today from 14, Chancellor Angela Merkel will see the prime ministers of the Lander at the coronavirus summit in a video conference.
And the controversy is inevitable, because the Chancellery hardly wants to allow a relaxation of the restrictions.
In a ten-page document from the Chancellery released yesterday, Merkel and her Chancellery Minister Helge Braun speak of the reopening of shops, for example, but only with very low incidence values (35 new weekly infections per 100,000 inhabitants).
The same applies to museums, galleries, zoos and botanical gardens, commemorative events and non-contact sports (max. 10 people) outdoors.
Yesterday the incidence in Germany was 65.4 new infections in one week for every 100,000 inhabitants and quickly reaching 35 is almost impossible.
Merkel's calculation, according to a parliamentarian who asked BILD anonymity, is simple: "The values are not achieved, so there are no openings".
That is, it is not his fault.
But Merkel encounters resistance in the grand coalition, from some prime ministers and in the business world.
The association of retailers asks that "all shops be authorized to reopen on March 8 on the basis of applicable hygiene standards, even if there is an incidence of over 35 or 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants".
Mail on Sunday
One injection gives 90% protection
One administration reduces the risk of being hospitalized for Covid-19 by more than 90%, according to a surprising new study.
Public health officials told ministers that the remarkable results apply to both the Pfizer vaccine and the Oxford-Astra Zeneca vaccine.
An encouraging figure while 20 million Britons are already vaccinated with the first dose
Tagesspiegel
When will it be like it was again?
It is one of the most important Crown leaders and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) knows it: the pressure of the economy and of the citizens tormented by the blockade is immense.
Several federal states are also threatening to go it alone.
And there is also a rumble in the CDU camp.
Prime Minister of Hesse, Volker Bouffier, summed it up like this: "People are fed up".
There are rumors about today's summit with the Lander.
The draft of the registry on the one hand takes into account the risk of an increasing number of infections from virus variants such as B.1.1.7 and at the same time tries to give perspectives of openness.
Germany is expected to remain in national lockdown until March 28 but with an easing of restrictions.
NDR podcast, Northern German radio
Virologist Christian Drosten criticized the state's current approach to vaccinations, "German perfectionism," he said in the NDR podcast "The Coronavirus Update".
He called for family doctors and company doctors to be urgently involved in the vaccination.
Drosten estimates the share of the English variant B.1.1.7 in infections in Germany at around half.
The proportion of this more contagious variant will continue to increase, which is inevitable, he said, because in Britain now there are only 'remnants' of other variants, B.1.1.7 is completely dominant.
And the restrictions there have been severe for some time, Drosten added.
In two kindergartens in Mörfelden Walldorf, Hesse, dozens of teachers and children have been infected with the virus, many of them with the English variant
Daily Telegraph
Aid maintained but requests for faster reopen increase
Rishi Sunak will announce today that the current aid scheme will continue until the fall, although data shows that efforts to counter Covid are exceeding expectations.
By unveiling his budget today, the chancellor will pave the way for tens of billions of extra spending, extending support to avoid layoffs and increased refreshments until the end of September for self-employed workers as well.
The vast spring and summer spending indicates that the government believes that businesses will not fully return to normal until the fall.
This is despite the new analysis showing that the decline in coronavirus deaths in England is about three weeks ahead of estimates in the first government model, fueling calls for a faster reopening.
Sunak will justify the decisions by stating that he will do "whatever is necessary" to protect the British people and businesses in a "time of crisis".
But it faces a tough parliamentary debate, with Tory MPs uneasy about rising spending levels, and even opposed to the need for a tax hike.
The Guardian
Sunak extends safety net
In one year, 15 budget-impacting maneuvers, spent £ 280 billion
Le Soir
The bad choices of the vaccination plan
The organization of vaccination stutters: computer bugs, missed calls, deserted vaccination centers… or overcrowded.
Was it appropriate to assign the App that produces the rendezvous to a tiny start-up?
No age limit for the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The Superior Health Council has ruled in this direction based on the latest studies in the UK.
Accept the principle of an extension of the time between doses of the Pfizer vaccine if circumstances require it.
Before the vaccination passport, vaccination must be successful
Only 25% of the approximately 29,000 health workers on the front line in Brussels responded to the digital invitations to be vaccinated sent in February, said Inge Neven, head of hygiene in Brussels yesterday.
In order to meet the daily quotas despite this low response rate, the Heysel center is open Monday to emergency police officers and health workers from non-residential health communities.
The other vaccination centers in Brussels will be open from mid-March.
The waiting time to get vaccinated at the Heysel center doubled yesterday.
The authorities have sent invitations to local communities, to people from non-priority groups, so as not to find themselves in the same situation as last week.
Emin Luka, director of the Brussels Expo, explains that these people have not received a link, via e-mail, to register in advance on the federal platform.
The vaccination center staff then had to register each individual one by one, on the spot, which took an enormous amount of time.
NYT
Biden promises sufficient supplies to vaccinate all adults in the US by May
President accelerates: wants to vaccinate all teachers by March but urges them not to let their guard down
The new vaccination roadmap outlined after a White House agreement with Merck to increase production of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
In the USA trend of new infections in the last 14 days: -21%, deaths: -17%
Vaccinated with the first dose 15% of the population (in the United Kingdom 30%) and with the second 7, 7% (in the UK 1.2%)
Israel: 53% of the population vaccinated with one dose (38.7% with the second dose)
Italy vaccinated with 4.9% 3%
Germany: 5.1% and 2.6% respectively
Doses administered per 100 residents: in countries with more people vaccinated, the administration from the start of the campaign was very very rapid, as in Israel and the United Kingdom.
Much more linear, progressive, vaccination in EU countries
Washington Post
Texas decision to lift coronavirus containment efforts comes at a bizarre time
Yesterday we heard two major announcements that reshaped what we might expect from the pandemic in the coming months.
The second announcement came from President Biden.
Thanks in part to a manufacturing agreement between Merck and Johnson & Johnson, the Biden administration now expects there will be enough vaccine doses by the end of May for every American to get a dose.
This is a significant acceleration of the estimated date, which potentially means a quicker end to the worst period of the pandemic.
About an hour earlier, however, there was another, more disconcerting announcement from Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) that he was issuing an executive order "to lift the mask requirement to reopen Texas at 100. % ".
In other words, to completely nullify efforts to contain the virus.
The timing of Abbott's announcement is difficult to understand.
It has been known for months that vaccines will soon be widely available, which means that frustration with containment measures such as business limits and the requirement to wear masks will decrease as we achieve herd immunity through mass vaccinations. effective.
But there is also the spread of more contagious variants, three of which have already been confirmed in Houston, the largest city in Texas.
The state has made one of the worst efforts to vaccinate its residents, even as the recent winter storm has negatively impacted.
This is the asterisk of Biden's announcement, of course: availability of the vaccine does not mean uniform ability to distribute it quickly.
Abbott instead appeals to the Texans' ability to take necessary precautions on their own, an optimism that recent history indicates as unwarranted.
Jerusalem Post
Israel begins to reopen its skies
3 thousand authorized daily entrances, flights from NYC, Paris, Frankfurt, Kiev
The enthusiasm and uncertainty of Jerusalem's restaurateurs, who are now reopening with tables also indoors: we do not know what is happening, they change their minds every week.
Satisfaction and doubts about how to reopen after the third national lockdown
WSJ
Asian countries led the world in the fight against the covid-19 pandemic in 2020. Now some are hampered by border closures and other health security rules, potentially putting them behind the US and other countries in driving economic recovery global.
Countries like China, Thailand, and Australia have virtually stopped the coronavirus within their borders by blocking entry to most outsiders and aggressively cracking down on imported infections.
Their citizens live almost normal lives and their economies, with a few exceptions, have not suffered as severe setbacks as those in the West.
China managed to grow its gross domestic product by 2.3% last year.
But that success has made it less urgent for many Asian countries to move quickly in vaccinating their citizens, as few get sick.
Most Asian countries have only vaccinated a small percentage of their population, and most Asian economies won't achieve herd immunity until 2022, Goldman Sachs estimates.
The US and UK are likely to have vaccinated half of their residents by May, according to Goldman Sachs forecasts.
This could leave some Asian countries in an outward restriction freeze pattern, forced to keep their borders sealed as their populations have developed little natural immunity to the disease, even as parts of the world reopen to international business and travel.
From the editorial staff
La Tercera (Chile)
Peru: trial against Alberto Fujimori for "forced sterilization of women" begins.
A Peruvian judge opened the trial on Monday against former president Alberto Fujimori and other former officials currently in prison, accused of "forced sterilization" of thousands of poor women, many of them indigenous, between 1996 and 2000. Among others defendants are former health ministers, Alejandro Aguinaga (current congressional candidate for Fujimori), Eduardo Yong Motta and Marino Costa Bauer.
There are two other former local officials accused.
Fujimori and the other defendants, "have done a lot of damage with their politics," said prosecutor Pablo Espinoza as he presented the charges, in a virtual hearing that had a Quechua-language translator because some of the victims are indigenous, people who are not they speak spanish.
An estimated 270,000 Peruvians have undergone fallopian tube ligation operations as part of Fujimori's National Reproductive Health and Family Planning Program over the past four years in power.
In addition to the possible convictions of the accused, the victims could be compensated by the state, under a reform of the Comprehensive Reparation Plan for the victims of the internal armed conflict that Peru experienced between 1980 and 2000. Currently the former president of Japanese descent, now 82, is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations, and ruled Peru between 1990 and 2000.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
If there hadn't been Gorby
The first and only president of the USSR turns 90
Gorbachev, no matter how you treat him, no matter what you call him, destroyer or creator, wrote his name in Russian history and world.
By the time Gorbachev came to power, the country was incurably ill.
Surely the Soviet era could have ended less painfully, but the USSR was doomed.
Gorby arrived at the fall of the curtain.
However, his perestroika has heartened many people for some time.
It has awakened the hopes.
Gorbachev's Glasnost encouraged faith: finally the truth!
But faith could not be assimilated on an empty stomach.
And Gorbachev, realizing this, led the immense country along the way, not assuming a soft transition, but an orderly and planned one, where the change of the socialist formation to another seemed real, but not rapid, avoiding the crash, with a long-term perspective with the preservation of the country, handed down from the ancestors, on the new principles.
Gorbachev's comrades in arms dwindled with each passing day as general secretary and then first, and last, president of the Soviet Union.
The old cadres, experienced bureaucrats, resisted in silence, but fiercely.
And Mikhail Sergeyevich's close entourage could provide neither an ideological platform nor economic support.
A man named Gorby began traveling the world in search of money.
Loans were made, with no possibility of repaying them.
The knot has become tighter.
The Soviet Union, once deemed indestructible and indissoluble, ended up in a sack with a noose around its neck.
Mikhail Sergeyevich wanted peace on earth.
Gorbachev, in fact, has negotiated with the West.
They promised him, solemnly sworn that the rival NATO would never approach the borders of the USSR after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from all sides, and in the shortest possible time.
And that the Atlantic Alliance would never expand.
He believed.
How he believed himself.
And it should instead have signed agreements, concluded official treaties with binding clauses.
