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POrtugal continues today for the fourth day of vaccination against Covid-19 in the country. In three days, the Pfizer / BionTech vaccine has already been administered to at least 16,701 healthcare professionals and more in the coming days.
At a time when the entire EU is immersed in this vaccination campaign, the president of the European Commission announced yesterday that another 100 million doses of the vaccine were bought. Two million should be for Portugal.
Along with the vaccination against Covid-19, he remains concerned about the appearance of the new strain of the disease and that it was known, on Tuesday night, that it had already arrived in the United States. Country where, by the way, the vaccination campaign will be “far below” than expected.
It should be remembered that this Tuesday, above the barrier of 400 thousand infections, a more deadly victim between 20 and 29 years old was exceeded and registered.
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10h58 – US Congressman Luke Letlow He died this Wednesday after being diagnosed with Covid-19. The man had been elected to the US House of Representatives in November.
10h40 – A Russia recorded 26,513 Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the lowest in nearly two weeks. In the last 24 hours, 599 people died from SARS-CoV-2, bringing the total to 56,426 deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic in the country.
10h14 – Africa registered 723 additional deaths in the last 24 hours from covid-19, for a total of 64,067 since the start of the pandemic, and 19,411 new cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to official data.
09h10 – A Vaccination in Spain has already started. The Palacio de la Moncloa recalled on Twitter the phases of this process.
Vaccination against the coronavirus has begun throughout Spain. Know the different stages of this process, solve the most frequent doubts, the types of # VaccineCOVID19 and how they work.#YoMeVacuno, all the information and documents of interest⬇️https: //t.co/zN8gAHJ8wW
– La Moncloa (@desdelamoncloa) December 30, 2020
08h00 –A New variant of coronavirus, detected in England, has generated concern in the scientific community. Although it was already recognized as more contagious, there was still no evidence of its lethality. Now, a new study, the first conducted for people infected with the B.1.1.7 strain, reveals that this new variant does not appear to increase the severity of the disease.
07h58 – Portugal It will receive about two million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 than expected, reveals Antena 1 this Tuesday after obtaining information from the Ministry of Health. The European Commission announced the purchase of another 100 million doses of this drug, this Tuesday.
07h45 –A The Public Security Police (PSP) could not block the escort of the Republican National Guard (GNR) vaccines against Covid-19, in Évora, last Monday. The information is advanced by TVI24, which explains that “GNR ensures the clearance of traffic on itineraries that include steps under the responsibility of both forces” and “PSP ensures the clearance of traffic only when the end of the route is at its end. zone”.
07h33 – A Chinese State Pharmaceutical Company Sinopharm revealed today that one of its candidate vaccines against covid-19 has shown an effectiveness of 79.34%, and that it has already requested authorization from the authorities of the Asian country to market it.
07h30 – A vaccine against the new coronavirus, developed by the University of Oxford, has been approved for use in the UK. Therefore, the British health regulator considered the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to be “effective and safe” to fight the disease and bought 100 million doses.
07h22 – A China Health Commission announced today that it has identified 24 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, including 17 from abroad and seven due to local contagion.
07h09 – OR Venezuelan government announced that it had signed a contract with Russia to purchase the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against the new coronavirus, in sufficient quantity to vaccinate 10 million citizens.
07h08 – A Germany registered 1,129 deaths from or with covid-19 in the last 24 hours, exceeding the barrier of 1,000 daily deaths for the first time. The Robert Koch Institute, the competent body for this matter in the country, also announced 24,740 infected with the new coronavirus in the same period, a figure below the daily maximum (33,777) recorded in mid-December.
07h05 – the U.S recorded 3,223 deaths and 245,500 infected with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, according to the independent count from John Hopkins University.
07h02 – OR Mexico recorded 990 deaths and 12,099 infected with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, health officials said.
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