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14:34 (CET). New restrictions in Iran after record of more than 9,000 coronavirus cases in 24 hours

Iran announced this Saturday (11/07/2020) a new record of 9,450 coronavirus infections and 423 deaths in 24 hours in the country, the most affected in the Middle East, and the application of new restrictions for businesses. The total balance of the pandemic in Iran amounts to 673,250 infected, of which 37,832 died, according to the Ministry of Health.

Faced with the upsurge, Iranian President Hasan Rohani announced new restriction measures to contain the virus during a meeting of the unit to combat the epidemic. Non-essential businesses, such as shopping centers, small stores, cinemas and gyms must close at 6:00 p.m. every day from Tuesday, for a month, the president announced this day. These measures will be applied in Tehran, as well as in other provincial capitals and in “cities with high populations,” he said. (AFP)

13:28 (CET). Austria wants to hire unemployed as coronavirus positives trackers

The Austrian Ministry of Labor announced this Saturday (11/07/2020) a plan for the elderly and long-term unemployed to work as trackers of coronavirus cases, given the high number of infections, which has set a new record this day, and of deaths. In the last 24 hours, 8,241 infections were registered, 11 percent more than the previous peak, on Thursday.

“In cooperation with the AMS (the national employment office) we make available the necessary means to promote this work activity”, explained the Minister of Labor, the conservative Christine Aschbacher. The Government’s plan is for the different regions to take advantage of the labor reintegration plans that already existed to employ unemployed people in tasks to fight the pandemic, for example as trackers or in access controls to nursing homes.

The country has been subjected to partial confinement since Tuesday, with the closure of all leisure and gastronomy activities, distance education for students over 14 years of age and a curfew from 8:00 p.m. , during which you can continue going for a walk or doing sports. (EFE)

11:36 (CET). Two Real Madrid players test positive

Real Madrid players Casemiro and Eden Hazard have tested positive for coronavirus, the merengue club reported this Saturday (11/07/2020), the day before visiting Valencia and at the gates of two weeks of national teams. “Our players Casemiro and Hazard have given positive results in the tests carried out yesterday Friday morning,” Real Madrid said in a statement. The rest of the players and members of the technical team tested negative in those tests on Friday, before being subjected to new tests in the morning of this Saturday.

“It is confirmed again that all, except for Casemiro and Hazard, have given negative results in the antigen tests carried out this morning,” added the merengue team. This positive is a hard blow for the two players, who had also been called up by their respective teams. The Brazilian had been called up by Tite for the South American qualifying matches for the Qatar-2022 World Cup against Venezuela on November 13 at the Morumbí stadium in Sao Paulo, and against Uruguay on November 17 at the Centennial. Hazard was also called up on Friday with Belgium for friendlies against Switzerland on November 11 and in the Nations League next Sunday against England and three days later against Denmark. (AFP)

11:09 (CET). Six countries reported coronavirus cases in mink, according to WHO

Six countries have so far reported cases of coronavirus in mink farms, the World Health Organization (WHO) indicated this Saturday (11/07/2020). “Until today, six countries, namely Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Italy and the United States have reported cases of SARS-CoV-2 in mink farms to the world organization for animal health”, indicates the entity in a statement.

It comes after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced Wednesday the removal of more than 15 million minks from the country. According to Frederiksen, a mutated version of SARS-CoV-2 could threaten the efficacy of a future vaccine, after this virus was transmitted by those animals to 12 people. The mutation of a virus is something banal and often without consequences, according to the scientific community. But in the case of this strain, called “Cluster 5”, according to the first studies, it implies a lower efficacy of human antibodies, which threatens the efficacy of a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2. (EFE)

10:49 (CET). New highs for cases and deaths in Hungary, which studies using the Russian vaccine

Hungary registered a new daily maximum of infections, 5,318, and deaths, 107, by SARS-CoV-2, while the Government has been willing to use vaccines developed by Russia and China. The total number of cases since the pandemic broke out is already 104,943, while 2,357 people have died due to the new coronavirus. A total of 5,612 people are hospitalized, 405 of them in serious condition in intensive care, connected to respirators. The Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, himself infected and in quarantine, explained that reduced quantities of vaccines produced in Russia and China could arrive in the country in December for clinical tests before placing a larger order in January. (EFE)

09:28 (CET). Ukraine sets new daily record with more than 10,000 positives for coronavirus

Ukraine registered 10,746 positives for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a new daily maximum of infections since the beginning of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health reported this Saturday (11/07/2020). In its Telegram channel, the health authorities specified that 187 patients with COVID-19 died during the past day, bringing the number of deaths caused by this disease in the country to 8,312. According to official data, 1,470 people with coronavirus were hospitalized in the last 24 hours, and in the same period there was a record number of recovered: 8,685. Of the new cases, 316 correspond to children and 519 to members of the health personnel. Kiev, the main infectious focus of the country, already accumulates 43,229 positives for coronavirus, 854 of them in the last day. With a population of about 42 million inhabitants, Ukraine accumulates 450,934 positive cases for SARS-CoV-2. (EFE)

05:19 (CET). Biden vows to act from “day one” to halt advance of COVID-19

Democrat Joe Biden, who is looming as the winner in the White House race, promised on Friday that he will waste no time addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, which registered a spike in infections for the third consecutive day in the United States most affected in the world. “I want everyone, everyone, to know that from day one we are going to implement our plan to control this virus,” Biden said in an evening speech from his fiefdom in Wilmington, Delaware, along with his running mate, Kamala. Harris. Biden was confident he will defeat President Donald Trump as the vote count for Tuesday’s election progresses in his favor. And without declaring himself the winner, he promised to unite a deeply polarized country. “It’s time for us to come together as a nation to heal,” Biden said. (AFP)

Conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Drexler

On the importance of masks

“As long as we do not have a vaccine, the use of the mask is still very important. It is a symbol of solidarity with others. A simple shield available to everyone. The evidence that it works is increasing. Probably nobody likes it. use it, but we must remember that we can be asymptomatic and, at the same time, help others to become infected.

Conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Drexler

On the importance of the exchange with Latin America

We cooperate with Latin America because they are the ones that are suffering the most in this first phase of the pandemic. Germany can learn a lot from the dimension of COVID-19 there and from the measures that have been taken. It is wrong to think that the countries of the region should learn from Germany or that we are the teachers and Latin Americans are the students who listen. Cooperation doesn’t work like that.

Conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Drexler

On the lessons of the first wave in Latin America

Latin American countries should better prepare and strengthen their public health systems. Also work on the decentralization of health so that it works not only in the capital. That would be a great lesson, and hopefully it will be part of the Latin American learning. We will see if it is implemented.

Conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Drexler

On disinformation and politicians using the pandemic

This exists in every country in the world. Misinformation and people’s refusal to take the trouble to inform themselves well and seek solid sources is everywhere. Hopefully there will be a strengthening of the distribution of scientific facts and health by the Government, which is the one indicated for that role. America is the worst example there is.

Conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Drexler

About the weather factor

Transmission is likely to be reduced by the weather, but the virus will not stop because of that. Before it was said that with high temperatures there would be no problems, but then we saw the cases in the Amazon. It was also said that in the high areas of the Andes the virus was not stable, and we are seeing huge outbreaks in those areas. You have to be very careful with those conclusions.

Conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Drexler

About the Russian vaccine and other possible vaccines

We must wait and do not create false hopes. Hopefully it works for 2021. Many of the vaccines that are being developed are very good. I am a friend of all vaccines and I have no preferences. The demand is so great that we need all of them. For now, we must have confidence in the health authorities of the countries of the region, who are doing their job within their means.

Conclusions and recommendations of Dr. Drexler

On the danger that the coronavirus mutates and the vaccine no longer works

That is a big question. Based on my own analysis, I believe that the risk of the virus mutating enough to escape the immunity induced by the vaccine in the population is very low. The influenza A virus changes its proteins very quickly, but coronaviruses do not. Coronaviruses, probably including SARS-CoV-2, have an error-correcting protein in their genome.