Report on the global epidemic: Greece “closes the country” for three weeks to prevent and control the epidemic, Australia buys two new candidate corona vaccines more_United States

Original title: Global report on the epidemic: Greece “closes the country” for three weeks to prevent and control the epidemic, Australia buys two new candidate vaccines for the crown

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 6Global briefing on the epidemic on day 5: Greece “closes the country” for three weeks to prevent and control the epidemic, Australia buys two new candidate vaccines for the crown

Global data

World Health Organization: At 4:19 p.m. Central European Time (11:19 p.m. Beijing Time), the number of confirmed cases of new corona worldwide increased by 529,256 compared to the previous day, reaching 47,930,397; death cases increased by 9,430, reaching 1,221,781.

Johns Hopkins University, United States: At 8:25 a.m. on the 6th Beijing time, there were 48,580,403 confirmed cases of new crowns worldwide and 1,231,558 deaths. The United States is the most affected country in the world, with 9,600,324 confirmed cases and 234,876 deaths.

News

Greek Prime Minister Mizotakis delivered a televised speech on the 5th, announcing that the country has entered a three-week lockdown since the morning of the 7th to prevent and control the recent rapid spread of the new corona epidemic and avoid pressure “unbearable” about the medical system.

According to statistics from the Japan Broadcasting Association television station, at 8:30 p.m. local time on the 5th (7:30 p.m. Beijing time), 1045 new confirmed cases of new corona in Japan that day, the number of new cases in a single day exceeded 1000 again after about two and a half months. example.

The Australian government announced on the 5th that it had signed an agreement with the developers of two new candidate corona vaccines. If the vaccine is shown to be safe and effective, Australia is expected to obtain a total of 50 million doses of these two vaccines in 2021. Australian Prime Minister Morrison announced on the 5th that under the agreement, Novavax of the The United States will provide 40 million doses of the new corona vaccine, and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. of the United States and Germany Biotech will provide 10 million doses of the new corona vaccine developed jointly by the two. . The vaccine must be approved by the Australian regulatory agency before it can be used, and it is expected to be available in the first half of next year. So far, the Australian government has signed agreements with the developers of four new candidate corona vaccines, with a total purchase of approximately 134 million doses and a total investment of more than A $ 3.2 billion (approximately US $ 2.3 billion). .

Researchers at Duke University in the United States recently published an article in the American Journal of Peer-Review Science and found that some “silent mutations” in the novel coronavirus genome may have played a role in promoting its spread. This discovery may provide a new target for the prevention and treatment of new coronavirus infections.

A recently published research report by American researchers shows that superpropagation events play a very important role in the spread of the new coronavirus. Researchers have found that limiting the number of gatherings to 10 or less can help significantly reduce over-spreading events, thereby reducing the total number of infections.Return to Sohu to see more