Britain licenses the "Johnson & Johnson" single-dose vaccine to combat the pandemic

"Health Organization": The "Corona" epidemic will not end before 70% of the world's population is vaccinated

The "Health Organization" is concerned about the high level of transmission of mutated versions of the Coronavirus.

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Yesterday, the director of the European branch of the World Health Organization, Hans Kluge, warned that it would not be possible to bypass "Covid-19" before 70% of the world's population was vaccinated.

While Britain licensed, yesterday, the "Covid-19" vaccine produced by the American company Johnson & Johnson, adding a fourth vaccine to its arsenal to combat the pandemic, the Japanese authorities decided to extend the state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions, due to "Corona".

In detail, the director of the European branch of the World Health Organization said during an interview with "France Press" yesterday: "The epidemic will end when we reach a vaccination rate of at least 70% of the world's population," indicating that the pace of immunization in Europe is still "very slow." .

Hans Kluge expressed his concern about the high level of transmission of mutated versions of the Corona virus, such as the British and Indian.

"We know, for example, that B. 1617 (the Indian mutant) is more contagious than B. 117 (the British mutant), which was basically more contagious than the previous version," Kluge said during the interview, but stressed that vaccines are effective against the current mutated versions of the virus.

He stressed the need to accelerate the pace of vaccination to put an end to the prolonged epidemic "more than expected."

"During any epidemic, speed is important," he said, indicating the absence of this factor at the beginning of the spread of "Covid".

"Time is running out for us," he said. "We have to accelerate the (vaccination campaign), we have to increase the number of vaccines" available.

Meanwhile, the British Ministry of Health announced that the United Kingdom yesterday licensed the "Covid-19" vaccine produced by the American company Johnson & Johnson, adding a fourth vaccine to its arsenal to combat the pandemic.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that the license for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is produced by Johnson & Johnson, given in a single dose "represents a new push forward for the enormously successful UK vaccination program, which has so far saved more than 13,000 lives, and means "We now have four safe and effective vaccines that have been licensed to protect people from this horrific virus."

He added that the government hopes that "(Johnson & Johnson vaccination) will play an important role in the coming months," at a time when young people are getting more vaccinated due to concern about the increase in cases of the Indian mutant.

Britain has requested 20 million doses of the vaccine.

This vaccine, approved by the British regulatory authority, joins Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna products used in the country.

Britain has given more than 62 million doses of vaccines so far, mainly using Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

It also licensed the Moderna vaccine.

After months of declining infections, they rose again due to the emergence of the Indian mutant, which raised questions about the possibility of moving forward with plans to completely lift the restrictions to contain the virus on June 21.

In Brazil, a total of 65.4 million doses of vaccines against the emerging coronavirus have been administered so far.

The average rate of vaccination in Brazil is estimated at 581,349 doses per day.

At this rate, Brazil is expected to take 1.2 years to vaccinate 75% of the country's population with the two-dose vaccine.

Brazil has a population of 212,559,417 people.

Yesterday, data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News revealed that 1.78 billion doses of the emerging coronavirus vaccines have been given worldwide so far.

The latest vaccination rate in the world is estimated at 29 million doses per day, based on published data daily, over an average of seven days.

The number of confirmed cases of the emerging coronavirus worldwide has reached 169 million, and the number of deaths is 3.51 million.

In Tokyo, the Japanese authorities decided yesterday to extend the state of emergency in the capital and other regions, due to the emerging corona virus pandemic, less than two months before the start of the Olympic Games scheduled for Tokyo.

The government has extended until June 20 the state of emergency in Tokyo and eight regions, which were supposed to expire next Monday.

Japan has not yet succeeded in containing the increase in Corona infections, in light of the very slow pace of vaccination against the epidemic, as well as in light of the rapid spread of virus mutations.

Experts in Tokyo had warned Thursday of a possible large increase in infections.

Infections with mutated mutations currently account for more than 80% of recent infections in Tokyo.

• 1.78 billion doses of Corona vaccine have been given in the world ... and Tokyo is witnessing the extension of the emergency.

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