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Berlin, January 4, 2021 – The pandemic does not stop: the cases of Coronavirus globally they have passed the 85 million threshold, according to Johns Hopkins University counts: infections are currently 85,122,080, including 1,843,135 deaths. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 47,860,306 people have been cured worldwide.
The situation in Europe is worrying: Britain It is preparing for the third general shutdown with schools closed until mid-February to cope with rising infections. There Germany extends the strict restrictions until the end of the month, the Spain fears the arrival of a third wave of Covid, in Ireland Hospitals are collapsing and eliminating non-urgent interventions while Poland Live the scandal of celebrities who skip the queue to get vaccinated. About dropper vaccination in France, Macron calls a meeting at the Elysee.
Meanwhile, on the vaccine front, the EMA announced in a tweet that “the discussion” about the “Modern vaccine against Covid-19 did not end today “but” will continue Wednesday January 6, 2021 “.
Italy, the newsletter for January 4, 2021
Gb, continues the boom in infections
New daily record of infections of COVID-19 in UK, where the cases of new positives in the last 24 hours hit today 58,784 in a series of tampons that went up to almost yesterday 430,000. For the fifth day in a row, Britain exceeds 50,000 infections. Waited for tonight every 20 local, 21 in Italy, the prime minister’s speech Boris johnson in a new national blockade. British media anticipate that it will be the third closure for the country with the addition of a primary and secondary school closure until mid-February. As the Financial times Lessons can only be done remotely via computer. An election, the latter, now openly urged on the Tory government by the leader of the Labor opposition, Keir Starmer.
Therefore, the tipping point could result in the introduction of a new alert 5, against the updated 4-level (levels) alarm system just before Christmas, and aims to contain the spread of infections fueled mainly by the recently identified fast-spreading virus variants. In essence, this would be a third general lockdown after the one last spring and the month-long lockdown imposed in England from November to December 2.
Meanwhile, waiting for the British central government to formalize the new restrictions, the Scotland back on lockdown since midnight as Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced.
Hopes are then pinned on the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca, approved on December 30, in addition to Pfizer / BioNTech, already authorized on December 2. The Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca has promised an acceleration of the production to be able to supply, from the middle of January, two million weekly doses of the serum.
Germany: lockdown until the end of the month
The federal government and those of the 16 German Länder would have reached a agreement to extend the confinement until January 31, writes the Bild, even if the final decision will be made tomorrow by the chancellor Angela Merkel and by the 16 prime ministers. Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia, which currently have a particularly high number of new cases, have strongly supported the extension until the end of the month of the blockade, in force since December 16 and which provides for the closure of schools, bars, restaurants and numerous shops.
Meanwhile, Germany, after Great Britain, is also considering postponing, in people who have already received the first dose of vaccine against Covid-19, the moment of remember to try to reach more people with the available doses. According to Der Spiegel, an attempt is made to increase the proportion of those received at least a first dose in the country, where the quantity of available vaccines, according to many, is scarce.
The government also proposes to standardize the practice of obtaining six doses from each container, theoretically intended for five, because the vials have been shown to have been filled with more than necessary.
Spain fears the third wave
Covid-19 cases are on the rise again in Spain. In the first week of December there was a collapse of infections after the second wave of October and November, but since then the curve has risen, writes El País.
Many experts They already talk about the third wave: the holidays have reduced the number of tests carried out and, therefore, the diagnosed cases and the incidence. In the week of December 21-27, the communities performed 843,330 PCR and antigen tests, 124,000 fewer (a reduction of 12.8%) than those performed a week earlier. “All the indicators are distorted these days of vacation”, admits Clara Prats, researcher in Computational Biology at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC): “They hide what is happening, they make the RT (the basic number of instantaneous reproduction) more unstable and the incidence less than it really is “.
In France 4,022 new cases
The France has been registered 4,022 almost of Covid-19 infection in the last 24 hours. The government of Paris reported today. Yesterday there were 12,489 more cases, but the usual thing is that on Monday the detection of infections is lower due to the closure of the laboratories.
Use: one kill every 33 seconds
The United States has had an average of one death related to Covid-19 every 33 seconds last week. Here’s what CNN, which analyzed data from Johns Hopkins University, reports. There were 18,462 deaths between December 28 and January 3, with an average of more than 2,600 deaths per day. December was the deadliest month in the United States – 77,572 in total, averaging more than 2,500 per day.
At least 210,479 infected of coronavirus in the United States in the last 24 hours. The victims related to Covid-19 were instead 1,394. The total balance of the pandemic in the country, according to the same source, is now 20,636,663 infections and 351,580 dead. Meanwhile, at least 13,071,925 doses of the vaccine have been distributed nationwide and at least 4,225,756 have been administered, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Ireland: hospitals in collapse
Irish hospitals cannot handle the pandemic and this week cancel most non-emergency care and operations to create as much space as possible for coronavirus intensive care. “There are no more adjectives to define the seriousness of the situation. The current figures are not sustainable. We literally go back to where we were in March. and April, “said the head of the rural hospital Paul Reid.
Until recently, Ireland had one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, but now the incidence rate of 14 days per 100,000 people has more than quadrupled in the last two weeks.
English variant in 37 countries
The variant of the coronavirus first discovered in the UK, also known as B.1.1.7, has been confirmed in at least 37 countries around the world, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan, according to a tally by CNN. This is the list of countries: UK, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Luxembourg, Holland, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vietnam.
Poland: VIP and politicians skip the queue to receive the vaccine
The Polish Ministry of Health has launched an investigation after it became known that several celebrities had an unjustified priority to receive the coronavirus vaccine. Poland started its program on December 27 and it was explained that health workers would be vaccinated first. But on December 30 at eighteen ‘vip’ – including numerous actors and a former prime minister – a dose was administered at the Warsaw Medical University Hospital. Most of the actors who received the administration were between 60 and 70 years old; The 75-year-old former prime minister, Leszek Miller, explained that the vaccines would otherwise go to waste. However, discontent and anger are spreading among healthcare workers, many of whom have yet to be vaccinated, and Health Minister Adam Niedzielski did not hesitate to describe himself as “disgusted” by the scandal. The hospital said it will carry out an investigation this week, as ordered by the Health Ministry.
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