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Covid, led by the world with the US staying ahead of all other countries in terms of number of infections and deaths. Coronavirus cases have grown to 56,898,415, with 1,360,381 confirmed deaths globally. This is indicated by the count carried out by Johns Hopkins University, which constantly updates data on the pandemic. The most affected country is always the United States, with 11,715,316 cases and 252,535 deaths.
The vaccine in China
Almost a million people in China have received an emergency vaccine for Covid-19, still in the experimental phase. This was announced by the pharmaceutical company, however, without providing clinical data to demonstrate its effectiveness. Since this summer, China has allowed the injection of not yet approved vaccines, for needs deemed urgent, such as employees and students traveling abroad, or even particularly exposed workers, such as caregivers. In this context, “our vaccines have been injected into almost a million people and we have not received any comments on serious adverse reactions,” Liu Jingzhen, president of Sinopharm, said on the group’s website. According to the company: “NORTHNone of the vaccinated people contracted Covid-19, despite having traveled “to more than 150 countries.”
Four experimental vaccines
China, where the new coronavirus was first identified in late 2019, currently has four vaccines in phase 3 of the human trial, the last before possible approval. Since there are very few patients in the Asian country, where Covid-19 has been largely contained since the spring, these tests are being carried out abroad. Therefore, Sinopharm’s phase 3 clinical trials, which include two vaccines that have reached this stage, are underway in a dozen countries including the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Peru, Egypt, and Jordan. The president of the state company Liu Jingzhen assured that his group is “at the forefront of the world” in the development of anti-Covid vaccines. However, he did not present any scientific data. Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised that any vaccine produced by a company in his country will become “a global public good”, made available to developing countries.
France
“I see the exit of the tunnel”: says the president of the French scientific council in charge of the fight against the coronavirus, Jean-François Delfraissy, in an exclusive interview with the newspaper Le Monde. On the hypothesis of compulsory vaccination against the epidemic, the virologist believes that France “has no right to make mistakes” in the distribution of vaccines.
Mexico
The death toll from coronavirus in Mexico has exceeded 100,000 victims, making the country the fourth in the world to have crossed this threshold. “Today in Mexico we have 100,000 people who have lost their lives due to Covid,” said Vice Minister of Health, Hugo López-Gatell, at a press conference.
Serbia
Serbian patriarch Irinej died of coronavirus. Hospitalized in early November by Covid, the Patriarch died this morning in the military hospital in Belgrade. Born in 1930, Irinej was the primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church. In office since 2010, he held the titles of Archbishop of Peć, Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci and Serbian Patriarch.
India
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in India has exceeded 9 million, making it the second most affected country worldwide after the United States, with an increase in infections in the capital Ned Delhi, despite the trend to the drop registered in the rest of the country. Since the start of the pandemic, 9,004,365 cases have been registered, with 45,882 cases in the last 24 hours. The new deaths were 584, for a total of 132,162, the highest figure after those of the United States and Brazil. In New Delhi, 7,546 new infections have been reported 98 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Brazil
A report prepared by a network of researchers and leaders of the Yanomami and Yèkwana indigenous tribes in Brazil indicates that the coronavirus pandemic has increased by 250% in three months within the Yanomami reserve, one of the most threatened ethnic groups. According to the document, released by the G1 news portal, one in three inhabitants of the region may be infected and the situation in the area is described as “totally out of control.” The Yanomani Land, which is the largest indigenous reserve in Brazil, is located between the states of Roraima and Amazonas, in addition to a large part that lives on the border with Venezuela. More than 26,700 Indians, including isolated groups, inhabit the area in some 360 villages. The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the territory went from 335 to 1,202 between August and October, according to the document titled ‘Xawara: Traces of Covid-19 in the Yanomami Indigenous Land and omission of the state’. Monitoring by the NGO Pro-Yanomami and Yèkwana Network has counted at least 23 deaths among Indians so far.
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