50 million cases of "Covid" in Europe ... and more than 200 thousand deaths in India

Report: The world will spend $ 157 billion on Corona vaccines until 2025

Projected spending on "Covid-19" vaccines represents 2% of expected spending of about $ 7 trillion on all prescription drugs.

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A report issued by the American company, IQVIAA Holdings, for health data, stated that the world will spend 157 billion dollars on Corona vaccines until 2025, and at a time of the acceleration of the outbreak of the "Covid-19" epidemic, yesterday, in India, Where a new record number of deaths has been recorded, since yesterday, more than 200,000.

In detail, a report issued by the American company, IQVIAA Holdings, for health data, said yesterday that the total global spending on vaccines against "Covid-19" is expected to reach $ 157 billion by 2025, due to vaccination programs. Continuous collective action and expected "booster doses" every two years.

The company, which provides data and analysis for the healthcare sector, said it expects that the first round of vaccination against "Covid-19" will include about 70% of the world's population by the end of 2022. The report stated that there will likely be booster doses every two years, based on Current data on vaccine duration.

The company's vice president, Murray Aitken, said that spending on vaccines is expected to be the highest this year, reaching $ 54 billion in light of massive vaccination campaigns around the world.

It is expected to eventually decrease to $ 11 billion in 2025, as increased competition and production volumes will lower prices.

The company stated that the expected spending on "Covid-19" vaccines represents 2% of an expected spending of about seven trillion dollars, on all prescription drugs, during the mentioned time period.

This comes at a time when the number of injuries in Europe has exceeded the threshold of 50 million, and it seems that the spread of the epidemic is slowing, according to figures compiled by Agence France-Presse, according to official statistics, and among the more than 3.13 million deaths recorded in the world, there were more than one million and 60 thousand and 900 in Europe.

In the United States, where the virus has claimed the largest number of victims (574,297 deaths), the growth figure is supposed to reflect the size of the economic recovery, while President Joe Biden saw that the vaccination plan was "one of the biggest logistical successes" in the country's history. .

In India, which ranks fourth among the countries most affected by the virus, in the number of deaths after the United States, Brazil and Mexico, there were 204 thousand and 832 deaths from Corona, including 3,645 during yesterday, but experts believe that the numbers are much greater in fact.

This country, with a population of 1.3 billion, recorded a record number of infections, and in April alone, the country counted more than six million new cases of "Covid-19".

This massive increase is partly attributed to an Indian variant of the virus, in addition to the fact that the rallies at political and religious events are causing tremendous pressure on hospitals that are short of beds, medicines and oxygen.

The first American military plane loaded with a portion of the emergency aid, amounting to more than $ 100 million, announced by Washington, landed in New Delhi yesterday.

India received new support yesterday from Russian President Vladimir Putin, who pledged to provide "emergency humanitarian aid" with more than 22 tons of equipment, and from Switzerland with one million Swiss francs (just over a million dollars).

In the face of shortness of breath caused by "Corona", queues of patients in India to try to obtain medical oxygen are long, and cargo planes began to deliver oxygen tanks to the places that need them, and the first "Oxygen Express" train was launched last week.

The slowdown in the spread of the epidemic was observed in most European countries, which are cautiously easing the restrictions imposed to contain the latest recovery of the epidemic, as the number of daily infections has decreased for two weeks.

The Netherlands reopened the balconies of its cafes, the day before yesterday, and lifted the curfew, a measure that was imposed, in January, the worst riots in the country in decades.

And in the United Kingdom, the worst-affected country on the continent, it records an average of 2,300 new infections per day, thanks to lockdowns and a massive vaccination campaign, launched in early December, which allowed at least one dose to be given to 64% of the adult population.

Moderna seeks to produce 3 billion vaccines by 2022

The American "Moderna" group announced yesterday its intention to invest in its production lines, in order to be able to produce three billion doses of its vaccine against the "Corona" virus in 2022, and it hopes to be able to provide between 800 million and a billion doses during the current year.

"We see that the virus is spreading rapidly, and we see that the virus mutates, and we are witnessing the emergence of new variants. We must take the initiative to be ready if necessary for a third dose." Manufacturers are working on new versions of their vaccines, specifically designed to fight mutants, and this is a basic adaptation because “the mutated versions of the Coronavirus that the current vaccines may not be effective against are likely to continue to appear,” according to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control. Laboratories are working on producing new vaccines designed for mutants. The head of German laboratories, which is associated with the American company "Pfizer", Ugur Shaheen, said the day before yesterday that he was "confident" of the effectiveness of his vaccine against the Indian mutant "B1.617" that was discovered in "17 countries on" Less, according to the World Health Organization.And Biontech announced that it is about to submit an application in the European Union to obtain a permit to vaccinate children between the ages of 12 and 15, which will make approval possible in June. For its part, the French-Austrian laboratories "Valneva" announced yesterday its desire to issue about seven million ordinary shares in the United States and Europe, in order to partially contribute to financing vaccines under development, including the vaccine against "Covid-19". The laboratory estimated its needs at 300 million euros for vaccines against several diseases.

At the end of last week, the number of "Covid-19" vaccines that were administered in 207 countries and regions exceeded the threshold of one billion doses, according to a census by "Agence France Presse".

Capitals - AFP

- Of the more than 3.13 million deaths recorded in the world, more than one million and 60 thousand and 900 were in Europe.

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