(Reuters) – Some European countries stopped COVID-19 before the holiday season, while hospitalizations in the US were in the middle of the world. But it’s not the first time They reached the level from the beginning of the pandemic, just as festive gatherings are expected to drive the next wave of infections.
DEATHS AND INFECTIONS
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EUROPE
Belgium will allow retail outlets to reopen from Tuesday, but will maintain additional restrictions during the holiday season, while Italy will ease anti-COVID restrictions in five regions from Sunday. Allow travel between counties from December 18.
The COVID-19 outbreak in Britain is shrinking slightly, and the number of “R” is estimated at less than 1, government scientists said.
Americas
“Doctors say most Canadians can be vaccinated against coronavirus until next September rather than until the end of 2021, as planned in the past,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he would take a vaccine, while the governor of the state of Sao Paulo introduced the concept of implementing one without the approval of the national fitness regulator.
PACIFIC ASIA
The World Health Organization’s leading emergency expert said it would be “very speculative” for WHO to say that coronavirus has not given the impression in China.
Malaysia agreed to purchase 12. 8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, the first Southeast Asian country to announce an agreement with the US drug manufacturer after some reservations about the need for ultra-cold storage.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
Mass vaccination opposed to COVID-19 is unlikely to begin in Africa until mid-next year and keeping vaccines bloodless can be just a major challenge,” the continent’s disease group said.
* The death toll in Turkey reached an all-time high for the fifth consecutive day, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Health.
MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS
Britain has asked its regulator to compare AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine for imaginable deployment, while the Philippines and Thailand have received millions of doses, giving the vaccine a vote of confidence after experts raised questions about trial data.
* Ten COVID-19 vaccines may be obtained through mid-next year if they get regulatory approval, but their inventors want patent protection, the head of the industry’s global pharmaceutical organization said.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
Global stocks rose to a new high and remained on track for their most powerful monthly functionality recorded, however, the Nasdaq surpassed Wall Street and Treasury bond yields fell, indicating persistent considerations about emerging global cases. [MKTS / GLOB]
Next week, Canada will reveal the scope of emergency spending it incurred during the pandemic and lay the groundwork for long-term stimuli and social measures, such as a national child care program, government resources told Reuters.
Kenya’s central bank has more than halved its economic expansion forecast by 2020, joining the Treasury in locating that the coronavirus has done more damage to the economy than previously thought.
(Compiled through Devika Syamnath and Linda Pasquini; edited through Louise Heavens and Sriraj Kalluvila)
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