Live news on coronavirus: China has given 1 million people the Sinopharm vaccine; US CDC Warns Against Thanksgiving Trips | World News

California will impose a temporary overnight curfew that will affect nearly the entire population starting this weekend, as the state struggles to control an increase in coronavirus cases.

State Governor Gavin Newsom announced the stay-at-home limited order Thursday, saying that all non-essential work and meetings must stop from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. The order will apply to the 41 counties that are currently at the level. more restrictive reopening rules, representing almost the entire state population of 40 million people:

Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling for closer international cooperation to make a vaccine for the coronavirus available, as his government announces that the vaccine developed by the state-owned pharmaceutical company SinoPharm has been administered to 1 million people.

Xi spoke Thursday in a video speech at an event at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.

Xi said: “To defeat the virus and promote global recovery, the international community must close ranks and jointly respond to the crisis and pass the tests.”
He said the cooperation would include closer coordination on policies for the development and distribution of a vaccine.

Chinese companies Sinovac and Sinopharm are in the late stages of vaccine testing, placing them among nearly a dozen companies at or near that level of development. That has introduced both commercial and political competition between countries and companies to be the first to offer a solution to the pandemic.

“To justify its licensing of an untested vaccine, Beijing said that use of the products had been restricted to high-risk people, although that included not only obvious groups such as front-line health professionals, but also workers from schools, supermarkets and public transport “.

The South China Morning Post reports that the CEO of SinoPharm has said that there have been no “adverse effects” in any of those who have received the treatment. The newspaper reports:

In addition to the recipients of the Sinopharm blows, the Zhejiang authorities said they had made available to high-risk groups in the eastern province of China a Covid-19 vaccine developed by the private pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotec under the use scheme. of emergency.

Exactly how many citizens have been beaten is unknown, but local and foreign media reports showed images of people lining up outside disease control and prevention centers to receive them.

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To justify its licensing of an untested vaccine, Beijing said use of the products had been restricted to high-risk people, although that included not only obvious groups like front-line health professionals, but also school workers. , supermarkets and public transport.

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The South China Morning Post reports that China has administered an experimental vaccine developed by the state-owned Sinopharm to 1 million people under the government’s emergency use scheme. We will have more on this shortly.

Meanwhile, authorities at the US Centers for Disease Control have told Americans not to travel next week for Thanksgiving celebrations and not to spend the holidays with people who are not there. at home.

These are the key developments of the last hours:

• northIreland faces two weeks of stricter lockdown restrictions starting late next week, as nonessential retail will also close. Health Minister Robin Swann had warned his colleagues that a delayed shutdown risks the country’s health services being overwhelmed.
• Spain has announced 16,233 new cases and 252 more deaths from the virus. The death toll in Spain has risen to 42,291 since the start of the pandemic.
• French health minister Olivier Veran admitted that the mental health of the French was deteriorating during the second blockade. The admission came as the French death toll from coronavirus rose by 429 to 47,127 people.
• ITaly’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has warned Italians that they would have to avoid “hugs and kisses” at Christmas. The Health Ministry recorded 653 more deaths from coronavirus, bringing the death toll from the virus in Italy to 47,870.
• The United States government will extend the ban on non-essential travel at the land borders with Canada and Mexico until December 21. The rules were first introduced in March to stop the spread of the virus and will be in effect for another 20 days. They were to expire on Saturday.
• A new mutated strain of mink farm coronavirus in Denmark is “most likely” extinct, said the health ministry, after a sacrifice of the animals. But authorities in Sweden are investigating several cases of Covid-19 among people who work in their mink industry.
• The latest post-Brexit trade talks between the UK and the EU have come to a halt at a crucial stage after one of the EU team members tested positive for Covid. The health of Brexit negotiators is the top priority, Britain’s chief negotiator David Frost said after his EU counterpart Michel Barnier announced the suspension of the talks.
• The Irish health department recommended euthanizing minks to stop the risk of the mink mutation spreading to Ireland. Ireland also announced that its R rate has increased from 0.6 to 0.7 to 0.9.
• HuNgary’s plans to import and possibly use the Sputnik V vaccine from Russia raise safety concerns and could damage confidence in potential vaccines, the European Commission has warned. Meanwhile, Sputnik V vaccine trials have resumed after a temporary suspension in Russia.
• Iran’s death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak has risen to 43,418, with 476 deaths in the last 24 hours. Ahmed al-Mandhari, director of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean region, expressed concern that Middle Eastern countries are lowering their guard after the harsh blockades imposed earlier this year.
• POland reported a new daily high of 637 coronavirus-related deaths. 23,975 new cases were reported Thursday, the Health Ministry said.
• Japan is on “high alert” after recording a record number of daily coronavirus infections, his prime minister has said. The comments came as Tokyo raised its alert level to the top of its four-tier system, with local media saying the capital would report a record number of infections for the second day in a row.
• Russia has surpassed 2 million coronavirus cases after reporting a record 23,610 infections and 463 Covid-19-related deaths.
• The total number of coronavirus infections on the African continent also exceeded 2 million.