Russia is ready to deliver Sputnik-V vaccines to 50 million Europeans as of June

"World Health" calls on Europe to be cautious in light of the high number of "Corona" cases

A nurse prepares an injection with a dose of the "Moderna" vaccine at the Vaccination Center in Calais, France.

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Yesterday, the European Office of the World Health Organization called on European countries to increase their caution against new strains of the Corona virus, the fastest spreading in light of the high incidence of Coronavirus.

While the European Union said it would be able to vaccinate all Europeans by the end of the summer, the Russian authorities announced that they were ready to provide vaccines to 50 million Europeans from June.

In detail, the regional administration of the World Health Organization announced that the number of Coronavirus infections is rising again in Europe, after six weeks of decline.

"We notice a resurgence (of the epidemic boom) in Central and Eastern Europe, where the rates were already high," said the organization’s regional director for Europe, Hans Kluge.

He pointed out that more than half of the 53 countries in the region have recorded increases in new cases.

"We have to contain the spread of the virus everywhere, using what we know will lead to benefit," he said, referring to testing, isolating and tracking cases, in addition to continuing vaccination.

And he considered that the Europeans should "return to the basic (principles)" to combat the virus and the mutated versions of it, through the use of applicable tools, and accelerate the pace of vaccination.

"We need to expand the range of vaccines used," he said.

For his part, the Commissioner of the European Internal Market, Thierry Bruton, in charge of following up the manufacture of vaccines against the Coronavirus, confirmed in Rome yesterday that the European Union should be able to vaccinate all European citizens "by the end of the summer."

"The situation regarding vaccines is reassuring," Bruton said in a joint press conference with the Italian Minister of Economic Development, Giancarlo Giorgetti.

It is a tremendous challenge, but we acted very quickly. ”

"I am very confident in Europe's ability to deliver vaccines faster, and I believe that by the end of the summer we will be able to vaccinate all European citizens," he added.

"By the end of the year, Europe will be able to produce two to three billion vaccines a year," he said.

For its part, the Russian authorities announced that they are ready to provide vaccines to 50 million Europeans as of June, with the European Medicines Agency announcing the start of a review of the Russian vaccine "Sputnik-V".

The announcement by the Medicines Agency represents a major step towards licensing the use of the vaccine in the 27 European Union countries.

"After approval by the European Medicines Agency, we will be able to provide vaccines to 50 million Europeans as of June 2021," said the head of the Russian Sovereign Direct Investment Fund, which contributed to the development of this vaccine, Kirill Dmitriev.

Prior to Dmitriev's statements, the European Medicines Agency announced the start of a review of the vaccine developed by the Russian Gamalia Institute of Epidemiology.

The Medicines Agency announced the start of a review of the Russian vaccine at a time when Brussels is facing criticism for slow vaccination campaigns, after problems with supplies.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel accepted a gradual easing of the lockdown measures imposed to combat "Covid-19" in the face of public discontent.

After a meeting on the national strategy to combat "Covid-19", Merkel said that non-essential stores, museums, zoos, botanical gardens, and memorial sites will reopen their doors within the coming weeks, if the infection rate remains less than 100 per 100,000. Nessma within a week, stressing that with this five-stage plan, Germany is entering a "new phase."

In the United States, where a massive immunization campaign is under way, Texas has announced that it will abandon the measure of masks, and will reopen companies from next week.

The state of Mississippi took the same action on Wednesday, and its governor, Tate Reeves, wrote in a tweet on "Twitter": "The time has come!"

US President Joe Biden said that the decision of the Texas and Mississippi authorities to abandon the measure of wearing masks reflects "primitive thinking", stressing that the premature easing of restrictions jeopardizes the progress made by the United States in the battle against "Covid-19".

He added that it was a "fatal mistake", confirming the opinion of key federal health officials.

"The last thing we need is the rudimentary logic that says everything is fine now, take off the masks, and forget all of that," he said.

Sudan begins vaccination next week

Next week, Sudan will begin vaccinating health workers, then those aged 45 and over who suffer from chronic diseases, free of charge, after becoming the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to benefit from the vaccines of the Kovacs program to provide vaccines to developing countries, with the aim of helping them to combat the virus. Corona.

An official at the Ministry of Health said that Sudan received 828,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, on Wednesday, at Khartoum Airport.

Sudan says it expects to receive the rest of a total of 3.4 million doses from the Kovacs program, which is co-administered by the World Health Organization, in the second quarter of this year.

Health Ministry officials said Khartoum intends to vaccinate 20 percent of the country's population, which is estimated at 44 million, through the Kovacs program by September.

Khartoum - Reuters

Palestine extends state of emergency for a new month to confront "Corona"

Yesterday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree extending the state of emergency for a new month, to counter the outbreak of the new Corona virus.

The official Palestinian News Agency stated that Abbas’s decree included “declaring a state of emergency in the Palestinian territories for a period of 30 days, starting from Thursday, to confront the exacerbation of the emerging corona virus pandemic.”

The spokesman for the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the official in charge of the Corona file, Kamal Al-Shakhra, warned of the significant escalation in the curve of Coronavirus infections, and the spread of new strains.

Al-Shakhra told the official Palestinian Radio that there has been a significant increase in hospital admissions, the number of cases connected on artificial respirators, and deaths.

He cautioned that the number of injuries, deaths and dangerous cases could double.

For her part, the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Al-Keela, announced yesterday that 2,300 new cases of the Coronavirus, and 18 deaths, were recorded among Palestinians during the past 24 hours.

The minister said in a press statement that the Gaza Strip recorded 156 injuries, out of all new injuries.

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