Lebanon closes supermarkets at the lockout; THE WHO team lands in Wuhan; New York mayor warns city will meet its vaccination goals
Sixteen instances of the new variant of coronavirus B117 will be provided in Germany, my colleague Kate Connolly reports in Berlin.
Of those 16 cases, 15 have evolved in others who arrived from the UK, said the head of the government company guilty of disease and prevention.
Lothar Wieler said there are also known to be 4 instances of the so-called South African variant in Germany, all of which were also brought through travelers. The origins of case 16 of the so-called British variant, known to be significantly more contagious than before, were not yet known because it was too recent.
Wieler said Germany would accentuate the genetic sequencing of positive control samples to keep track of variants, adding one from Brazil. He said that as the virus developed, more variants would emerge, but suggested stigmatizing the individual countries they were with. Associated.
On the day that Germany’s mortality rate peaked at a high of 1244, exceeding past rates, Wieler expressed fear that the Germans would not be complying with the latest strict blockade measures introduced in the run-up to Christmas.
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Wieler said mobility was still too high, noting that reduced movement was one of the maximum effective tactics for the disease, as it reduced contact.
But he said he was confident that “until the end of this year we will have this virus under control,” raising the launch of the vaccine – which by noon had been given to another 758,000 people – as very important for its management, provided that enough others have accepted the offer. All German citizens will have been able to get it until the end of the year, he said.
Wieler said that in 10 of Germany’s 16 states, extensive care sets were more than 85% of their capacity, and the symbol of neighborhoods in general was similar. While the virus massively affected others over the age of 80, the average age of patients ending up in resuscitation is “significantly under 60 years. “The number of young people with serious illnesses is also increasing, he added.
Wieler under pressure that, while testing was a way to help spread the virus, “the main way we can’t give this virus a chance is to decrease our contacts. “Said:
You can use as much generation as you want, but the downside is that other people who reduce your contacts are the way to leave no chance to this virus.
He said he was frustrated to hear anecdotes about employers and others in jobs “that often emerge amazing hygiene concepts. . . but then, say, meeting with colleagues at lunch,” where other people sat together, talked, laughed and ate.
“The mistakes made are very simple . . . they’re pretty worldly,” he said.
In Turkey, the government has begun the deployment of the country’s vaccination program for fitness and other high-risk groups, a day after the Turkish government approved the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine for emergency use, writes my colleague Bethan McKernan, The Guardian’s Turkey and Middle East Correspondent.
More than 100,000 fitness in Turkey’s 81 provinces won the first of two vaccines on Thursday morning, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.
The vaccine is given in circles of family members, gymnasiums and hospitals for use and university, according to the Directorate of Health Services. Each vaccine is assigned to a specific user with QR codes on the packaging, Koca added.
Three million doses of Sinovac Biotech Ltd. arrived in Turkey on December 30 and the country of one million is expected to get a total of 50 million doses from Beijing.
Two-week trials in Turkish laboratories revealed that the vaccine manufactured in China had an efficacy rate of 91%, higher than studies in Brazil that concluded this week that the vaccine has 78% efficacy in protection against symptomatic diseases, and just over 50%. in general.
Turkey reported around 2. 34 million infections and about 23,000 deaths due to Covid-19. Doctors’ unions and opposition politicians have accused the government of covering the true scale of the pandemic and exaggerating the effectiveness of the Sinovac vaccine, Ankara denies.
Discussions to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in Turkey are still ongoing, and local media reports that the first shipment is expected to arrive within the next 10 days.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also said it is imperative that Turkey expand its own vaccine produced in the country.
Koca has become the first user to get a live television video on Wednesday, telling reporters that he had suggested to all citizens that they are emptying to beat the pandemic.
“I’ve already said there’s a soft one at the end of the tunnel,” he says. “I think the next few days will be brilliant. “
In Greece, there is good news and bad news this morning, writes Helena Smith, chief correspondent in Athens. While epidemiologists say the epidemic is gradually being controlled, the country has woken up to be informed that Olympic sailing champion Leonidas Pelekanakis has succumbed to the virus.
Echoing his fellow infectious disease experts, Gkikas Magiorkinis told the Guardian that he was “optimistic” that the prospect was even though everything was improving.
“Clearly, we have a suppression of the epidemic at this stage,” he said in a telephone interview, adding that (yet) there had not been a planned resurgence in infection rates following the easing of restrictions in the holiday age.
“It took longer than the first waveArray . . . but the wave at the moment was much worse and the lock also softer. National blockade measures were first implemented in Greece on 7 November.
The Public Health Organization (EODY) said coronavirus cases dropped to 671 on Wednesday from 866 on Tuesday, bringing the total number of diagnoses since the start of the pandemic in Greece to 146,688.
Magiorkinis, assistant professor of hygiene and epidemiology at the University of Athens who in the past taught at Oxford University, said infections, although everything stabilizes, the lifting of blocking measures would be “very gradual. “
“I’m sure, but I still care a lot about [coronavirus] fatigue and people’s compliance with the rules,” he said. “Ending the measures is going to be a very slow process,” added the epidemiologist, who sits on the specialized committee that advises the government.
“We have to avoid other people’s internal assembly and we are very careful with the activities that should be allowed. “
The government allowed schoolchildren attending kindergartens and number one schools to return to school this week after pronouncing that restrictions would otherwise last for a week.
Meanwhile, Pelekanakis’ death surprised the Greek media: the 58-year-old Olympic champion died of Covid-19 just two months after being first diagnosed with the disease, but has compatibility and had no underlying disease.
The Olympic Games may not be held in Tokyo this summer, Japan’s minister of administrative and regulatory reform said in an interview with reuters news agency.
“We have to do whatever’s in our power to prepare for the Games right now, but it may happen anyway,” Taro Kono told Reuters Next.
“Anything is possible, but as the venue for the Games, we have to do everything we can. So that when it’s a start, we can have a smart Olympics,” he added.
The coronavirus pandemic will be in Germany until the end of the year, said the head of the country’s public fitness firm.
“By the end of the year, we will have this pandemic under control,” said Lother Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases, adding that then enough vaccines would be needed to inoculate the entire population.
But he warned that the new and more communicable strains of the virus that have evolved in the UK and South Africa are likely to exacerbate the stage in the meantime, Germany has recorded 16 cases of others with the British strain of the virus and 4 of the South African strain, Wieler said at a press conference, according to the Reuters news agency.
All cases have been captured through other people who had traveled abroad, he said. These will not be the last diversifications to be seen, he said, also referring to a new variant of coronavirus discovered in Brazil.
“We will have more variants . . . Therefore, travel.
On Thursday, the RKI reported 25164 new cases of coronavirus and 1244 deaths, a record, bringing the total number of deaths in Germany from the start of the pandemic to 43881, according to the count.
According to a KPMG market analyst, he writes Sid Lowe for the Sports Bureau of the Guardian.
The european champions’ report, aimed at league winners in the six primaries and carried out through the football reference team, revealed that Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain and Porto had recorded double-digit profit drops, while Bayern Munich, Liverpool and Real Madrid experienced more modest profit declines.
Madrid and Bayern have made a profit, with the Spanish club registering the highest revenues with 681. 2 million euros (607 million pounds). He then earned Bayern’s revenue of 607. 2 million euros, 557 million euros from Liverpool and 540. 6 million euros from the PSG.
Doctors and nurses in Turkey have begun receiving the Chinese Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine when the country initiates a national immunization program.
Health personnel will be vaccinated within a few days, before the procedure passes to the next organization, which includes others over the age of 65, according to Reuters, people over 50 with chronic diseases, as well as some in express or high spaces. -risky environments, will continue. A third organization includes young adults and other categories, with a fourth organization covering the rest.
The vaccination program may have problems. A December vote through Turkiye Raporu showed that nearly 35% of Turks needed to be vaccinated, while nearly 30% said they would only receive a nationally developed vaccine.
At a hospital in Istanbul, 30 clinics were established to administer the vaccine. Health workers, who book electronic appointments online, won a first dose and were monitored for a short time before leaving. A moment dose will be given 28 days later.
Surgeon General Nurettin Yiyit said the hospital could vaccinate another 1,800 people a day and that its 3,500 employees, as well as nurses and janitors, could be vaccinated in two days.
We spent about 10 months with a white monkey, supporting other people fighting for life. Health personnel are well aware that this scenario cannot be taken and that the vaccine is necessary.
Turkey has reported more than 2. 3 million infections since March and continues to report around 10,000 new cases and 170 deaths each day after a month of weekend closures and curfews in the middle of the night.
Indonesia reported a record build-up in coronavirus cases, with 11,557 new infections, bringing the total number of cases to 869,600, according to the knowledge of the country’s Covid-19 group of runners.
He added 295 Covid-19-related deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 25,246.
France’s knowledge privacy control body has condemned the internal ministry for drones illegally to enforce the Covid-19 blockade.
THE CNIL said in a statement that it had issued a call to order against the ministry, according to Reuters.
He said that to date, there was no law authorizing the ministry to use drones with cameras that capture photographs in which other people could be identified.
A transit morgue in a former army aircraft hangar established as an emergency measure in England’s East Anglia region is now in service, as the country is recovering from high mortality rates.
The installation of the former RAF Coltishall base, northeast nor norwich, was not mandatory during the first wave of coronavirus, but is now used through the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), according to PA Media news agency.
Tom McCabe, chairman of Norfolk’s Covid-19 Strategic Coordination Group, said:
It was hoped that during difficult times, there would be more pressure on morgues, funeral homes and crematoriums.
This transient morgue provides greater capacity to ensure that county hospitals have enough area in their own morgues, and to ensure that we can provide the utmost respectful and worthy way to care for the deceased and their families. In difficult times.
The former airbase is now Scottow Enterprise Park. McCabe continued:
Anyone who has enjoyed one is moved to Scottow’s location will be informed and we can assure other people that we have a committed and trained team that takes care of those who have died and have been taken there.
The Morgue of Transitoryness also won a blessing from the Bishop of Norwich in April last year, giving him a prayer of determination on a special front in his home.
One of the county’s hospitals, Norfolk University Hospital and Norwich, has now had to implement its business continuity plans to use several of these mortuary spaces.
All restrictions on coronaviruses have been extended in Moscow for another week, with the exception of young people returning to school from Monday, said mayor Sergei Sobianin.
According to a report by reuters news agency, Sobianine said a vaccination program in the city is growing, but that the number of Covid-19 patients in the hospital remains high.
I’ll be direct. The resolve to cancel distance education in the best schools is very difficult
He warned that the threat of contagion remained maximum and that the detection of a Covid-19 case would result in the transitoryness coming back from all the elegance of the student to distance education.
Moscow restrictions come with early closure of bars and restaurants, mandatory medical mask on and on public transport and limits on the number of workers in offices.
Russia reported 24,763 new cases in more than 24 hours on Thursday, 5,893 in Moscow, bringing the national total to 3,495,816, the fourth largest in the world.
Authorities showed 570 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 63,940.
Two researchers from the World Health Organization have been denied access to China after testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies, Reuters reports in the Wall Street Journal.
Chinese officials prevented them from boarding their plane to Wuhan, where a team from the UN fitness firm is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic after serological blood tests passed to Singapore, said WSJ, which brought in known people.
“Monitoring epidemic prevention will be strictly enforced,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at a regular press conference when asked about the report.
An 11-day national closure and a 24-hour curfew begin today in Lebanon, where citizens will now have to apply for a special permit to leave space and even supermarkets are closed.
According to an Associated Press report, police had checkpoints across the country, verifying driver’s licenses. Curfew is the strictest since the beginning of the pandemic. Supermarkets have even been asked to close their doors and open for delivery.
The authorities have been pressured to adopt a more difficult technique after the country’s hospitals ran out and infections reached a new record of 5,440 cases in the country last week of nearly 6 million people.
In Germany, the number of cases shown of coronavirus has increased in 25164, to the most recent update of the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases.
The country, which has been praised for its harsh and immediate action against the pandemic, but which has also experienced one of the greatest public reactions in Europe against coronavirus restrictions, has recorded 1978590 cases.
The reported death toll increased from 1,244 to 43,881, according to data.