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There have been more than 88,000 cases of viruses on U. S. university campuses. But it’s not the first time Since the start of the pandemic, india reported a record 96,551 new cases on Friday.
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The governor of Florida said the two largest counties in the state, Miami-Dade and Broward, would move on to the reopening phase on Monday, paving the way for schools to regain students’ elegance earlier than planned.
China is probably still months away from mass production of a vaccine that is for the public, but the country is employing the prospect of drug discovery in a delightful offensive designed to mend broken ties and bring friends closer to spaces that China. considers important to your interests. .
Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will get loans to purchase the drug and Bangladesh will get more than 100,000 single doses from a Chinese company.
In the Philippines, where China competes with the United States for its influence, President Rodrigo Duterte told lawmakers in July that he had “pleaded” with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him with the vaccine. He also said he would confront China over its claims about the South China Sea.
A day later, Wang Wenbin, spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said China is ready to give the Philippines priority access to a vaccine.
China’s vaccination promises, in addition to previous shipments of masks and enthusiasts from around the world, help him assign himself as a guilty player and can also help him fend off accusations that the ruling Communist Party will be convicted of his first false steps when the coronavirus. made the first impression in China in December.
The Trump administration has attacked Beijing harshly for its handling of the virus, as well as accusations that Chinese-led hackers tried to borrow vaccine studies to gain an advantage. The Justice Department has accused two Chinese suspects accused of targeting pharmaceutical corporations in July.
China is a world leader in a Covid-19 vaccine, and 4 of the 8 late-stage clinical trials involve Chinese vaccines. The country began testing experimental vaccines on infants and state-owned business workers in July, and testing has quietly expanded to come with fitness and aviation workers. Chinese vaccine brands have built factories capable of generating thousands of doses.
The United States has 3 vaccine applicants in expired trials, and Pfizer said it could seek emergency approval starting in October, and Moderna said it expects to have a vaccine until the end of the year. US government investment in the UNITED States and its allies in the Middle East and Its Allies. To expand his vaccine, he suspected that his complex global trials ended this week due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant.
But Chinese vaccine corporations that have gone to clinical trials have also caused controversy over fears that local citizens will be treated as guinea pigs, and some political experts are involved in china’s influence on vaccine-making countries.
“Should we be cautious or grateful?” asked Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, a professor at the University of Islam Indonesia, who studies China’s foreign policy in Indonesia.
“I both. “
Long before the coronavirus reached her village in rugged southeast Afghanistan, Halima Bibi knew the haunting concern of hunger: it was an ever-present force, a source of relentless anxiety as she struggled to feed her 4 children.
Her husband earned about $5 a day, taking products to the wheelbarrow of a local market to the surrounding houses. Most of the time, I brought home a bread bar, potatoes and beans for dinner.
But when the virus arrived in March, took its neighbors’ lives and wiped out the market, her husband’s source of income was reduced to about $1 per day. Most nights I only brought bread to the house. Some nights he’d come back with nothing.
“We hear our young men scream hungry, but there’s nothing we can do,” Bibi said, talking on the phone from a hospital in Kabul, where her 6-year-old daughter is being treated for severe malnutrition. “This is not just our situation,” but the truth for most of the families we live in. “
As the world economy absorbs the maximum painful decline in fortune since the Great Depression, famine is on the rise. According to the United Nations World Food Programme, those facing life-threatening grades of the so-called lack of food confidence in the global future are expected to nearly double this year to 265 million.
The largest number of vulnerable communities are concentrated in South Asia and Africa, in countries that already face problems, from armed conflict and excessive poverty to climate-related afflictions such as droughts, floods and soil erosion.
For now, the tragedy unfolding is far from a famine, which is regularly triggered by a combination of war and environmental catastrophe. Food is still available in many countries around the world, costs have increased in many countries as concern for the virus is disrupted. shipping links and currency values decrease, increasing the costs of imported items.
By contrast, while the global economy is expected to contract by nearly 5% this year, families are drastically cutting their spending. Among those who have entered the pandemic in excessive poverty, millions of others are experiencing an intense crisis. how to meet their fundamental food needs.
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