WHO says the virus is spreading despite advances in vaccination; French infections amount to 2. 29 million; Brazil reports 627 new deaths. Follow the latest updates
Iran’s total number of coronavirus deaths exceeded 50,000 on Saturday with 321 new deaths recorded in more than 24 hours, the fitness ministry said, while the number of cases in the most affected country in the Middle East reached 1028986, Reuters reports.
Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state television that another 12181 people had been inflamed with the coronavirus since Friday and that the death toll is now 50,016.
A senior adviser to the UK government has advocated the great use of immediate rotation tests for coronavirus amid considerations that a higher point of “false negatives” is to give others a sense of comfort, PA Media reports.
Government figures released this week from Liverpool, where the massive deployment of appearance flow tests was first tested, showed that some of all instances and a third of those with a large number of viruses that were likely to be the most infectious had been lost.
This has led some scientists to call for a discontinuation of use, fearing that others who tested negative will combine with others who are more vulnerable because they mistakenly believed they did not have the disease.
Dr. Susan Hopkins, the NHS’s chief medical adviser for testing and tracking, told BBC Radio Today:
What we’re doing here is case detection. We’re not saying other people don’t have the disease if their checkup is negative.
We go out to say (to other people who test positive): “You have the disease and now we need you to isolate yourself for ten days. “It’s a game changer.
We have been very transparent in that this check discovers to other people that we may not find in a different way. We are also very transparent that until we have a much lower prevalence of the disease in this country, we deserve not to replace our behavior.
Moscow’s coronavirus working group said Saturday that it distributes the Sputnik V vaccine to 70 clinics, marking Russia’s first mass vaccination opposed to Covid-19, Reuters reports.
The executing organization said the Russian-made vaccine would be made first for doctors and other medical workers, teachers and social workers, as they were the ones with the greatest threat of exposure to the disease.
“Paint in an educational establishment and take precedence for the Covid-19 vaccine, let go,” reads in a text message earned through aMoscovite schoolteacher on Saturday.
“In the first five hours, another 5,000 people signed up for jab: teachers, doctors, social workers, who are now most threatening their fitness and lives,” Mayor Sergei Sobianin wrote in his non-public on Friday.
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Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona, wrote an opinion paper for The Guardian calling for a revolution after Covid.
She wrote:
The pandemic will leave a very different world than it was a year ago. Thousands of people have died; entire industries are on the brink; Welfare states have been shaken. In the coming years, the main challenge facing all public leaders will be to chart a course towards recovery through the devastating human, social and economic brands that Covid-19 has left in our societies.
But than repeating the fragile global of the pre-pandemic era, we deserve to seize this moment to build one that is more just, balanced and sustainable.
Cities will play a key role in this process, Barcelona and its metropolitan dominance want to lead the response to one of the maximum conditions that humanity has faced in fashionable times, which will require addressing two interdependent challenges. We will have to continue the struggle, opposed to the climate crisis, driven through the European Green Pact. And we will want to stimulate the post-Covid economy through green technologies, sustainable industry and transport.
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Russia on Saturday reported a record 28,782 new instances of Covid-19, adding 7,993 in Moscow, bringing the national total to 2,431,731 since the start of the pandemic, Reuters reports.
The UK Department of Health and Social Services published the adhesive clip in collaboration with government clinical advisers to remind the public to attach to the fundamental behaviors of ‘Hands, Face, Space’ and ensure that the interior spaces are well ventilated with each other. .
GPs in England have been told to be in a position to start staffing Covid-19 vaccination centres until 14 December, AP reports
In a letter sent through the number one care networks in England, NHS England and NHS Improvement warned that the “scale and complexity” of the vaccination programme would make it “one of the most demanding situations the NHS has ever faced. “
The letter was signed through Dr Nikita Kanani, Medical Director of Primary Care at NHS England and NHS Improvement, and Ed Waller, Director of Primary Care. start accessing the vaccine, “he said.
Vaccination sites may administer 975 doses of the vaccine to previous patients within 3 and a half days of delivery on December 14.
Speed is a must with the vaccine, as it is kept at -70 degrees Celsius and will remain solid only at refrigerator temperatures between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius for a limited period of time. There are 975 doses in each of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine packages, which posed a logistical challenge as to how they can be divided and distributed to other key sites, such as nursing homes.
The first other people to get the vaccine at the centers will be people over the age of 80, provided their other threat factors, “clinical or not,” have been taken into account.
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The South Korean government is urging others to be very vigilant, as coronavirus infections in recent days have reached levels that had not been noticed since early March.
Reuters that coronavirus groups have exploded in the capital, Seoul.
The country’s disease and prevention firm reported 583 new cases on Saturday, up from 629 on Friday, the highest level since the first wave peaked.
South Korea has temporarily controlled the virus and its citizens are waiting for government news on Sunday if new restrictions are to be introduced.
Daily instances averaged 487 this week, more than last week. The director of the Korean Agency for Disease Control and Prevention, Lim Sook-young, said:
The recent outbreaks are small and extend into people’s everyday lives. Keep in mind that the existing wave is not limited to an organization or express place, but is possibly found around our homes, circle of relatives and acquaintances.
Seoul accounted for 235 of the new infections. More than a portion of South Korea’s 52 million inhabitants live in and around the capital.
South Korea reported 36,915 coronavirus infections and 540 deaths during the pandemic, KDCA said.