TAIPEI, Taiwan – U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said expanding a COVID-19 vaccine “is not a race to be the first.”
Azar’s comments on a stopover in Taiwan on Wednesday are attached to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine, raising doubts about the science and safety behind the alleged achievement.
Azar argues that the United States combines the powers of its government, economy, and biopharmaceutical industry to “provide effective vaccines as temporarily as possible, for the advantages of American citizens, but also for the peoples of the world.”
He says to America. He has been awarded a production contract for a vaccine that is being developed through Moderna and has signed origin agreements with five other corporations that have vaccines in process.
He says 4 of the six corporations have reported verification effects that appear to produce more antibodies against the virus than other people who survived COVID-19, with no serious side effects.
Azar said candidate vaccines from two corporations have entered the third phase of the trials, while the Russian vaccine has just embarked on this step and the data have been revealed.
He said the U.S. procedure allows the production of a “safe and effective reference vaccine” in tens of millions of doses until the end of the year.
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HERE’S MORE HAPPENING:
BERLIN – Germany’s fitness minister has expressed fears about the increased number of coronavirus infections in the country and has called on his compatriots to respect social estrangement and hygiene regulations.
Health Minister Jens Spahn said there have been ever smaller epidemics in almost every region.
He told Deutschlandfunk radio that the infections were caused by travelers returning from abroad, but also by others who were partying or collecting for the family circle.
He says, “This obviously, if we are all careful now, can lead to a push” and the resurgence of the pandemic.
The German Robert Koch Institute, which traces the coronavirus, recorded 1,226 new infections on Wednesday. This is the figure since early May.
Spahn reiterated his calls to wear masks, to keep his distance and not to spend too much in social contexts.
He says: “When there is alcohol in between, when a festive occasion becomes a party, it can happen very, very quickly.”
Germany has been praised for maintaining the pandemic for a long time, however, the easing of measures and the return of travellers have led to an increase in infections in recent weeks. In addition, the summer holidays ended in several states and students often return to normal categories and do not have to wear a mask.
Germany recorded 218,519 shown and 9,207 deaths.
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SINGAPORE – The Singapore government says the maximum foreign staff can now repaint because their bedrooms have been cleaned from COVID-19 after months of closure and virus testing.
People living in overcrowded dormitories accounted for the majority of Singapore’s 55,353 cases. Only 27 deaths recorded in the city-state.
The Ministry of Labour said Tuesday night that the 17 separate bedrooms have so far been emptied as quarantine facilities.
He said all foreign staff living in the dormitories have been recovered or tested as virus-free, with the exception of 22,500 lone employees. Most of them will now return to work, adding 81% of the 387,000 employees in the construction, shipyard and procedures industries.
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NEW DELHI – The number of coronaviruses in India exceeded 2.3 million after adding 60,963 in the last 24 hours.
India also reported 834 deaths Wednesday for a total of 46,091 people. India has the third number of cases after the United States and Brazil, but only the fifth number of deaths, and the government says the mortality rate has fallen below 2% for the first time.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a video convention Tuesday with the most sensitive elected officials from 10 states that together account for about 80% of India’s general cases, urging them to put in place methods of containment, surveillance and contact search to carry the mortality rate. less than 1.%.
Modi also requested additional evidence in several states, such as the case in the Delhi capital region.
The Indian Medical Research Council, India’s leading medical study organization, said that more than 733,000 samples had been examined Tuesday to detect COVID-19, but did not say how many had undergone the popular RT-PCR check compared to antigen verification, less expensive and more effective blood tests, but less accurate , looking for antibodies.
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BEIJING – New cases of community-transmitted coronavirus in China fell to a figure on Wednesday, while Hong Kong recorded 33 cases of infection.
The National Health Commission said the nine new cases had been discovered in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, whose capital, Urumqi, was in the midst of China’s last primary outbreak. Another 25 cases were brought through Chinese travelers who arrived from abroad.
China largely contained the local spread of the pandemic, which is believed to have originated in the city of Wuhan in central China, overdue last year, before spreading around the world.
The government recorded 4,634 DEATHS from COVID-19 in 84,737 cases. Hong Kong, a densely populated semi-autonomous city in southern China, also recorded six other deaths, bringing the total to 58 out of 4181 cases.
The government ordered the use of a mask in public places, restrictions on indoor food and other measures of social estrangement to involve its new epidemic. These measures appear to have succeeded in cutting the number of more than one hundred new cases reported by the end of last month.
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SYDNEY, Australia – The Australian state of Victoria reported on Wednesday a record 21 deaths from viruses and 410 new cases due to an outbreak in the city of Melbourne, which led the government to impose a strict blockade.
State Minister Daniel Andrews said 16 of the deaths were similar to nursing homes.
The number of new in Victoria has declined from the peak, giving the government hope that the epidemic will subside.
Meanwhile, 3 Melbourne vloggers have been fined more than $1,000 after posting a video on Chinese social media that shows them in violation of curfew regulations at night for a McDonald’s race, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
The five-minute video, which has since been removed, showed foreign academics walking down the alleys, dodging police officers and dancing at a McDonald’s restaurant at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, ABC reported. Victoria police showed that each student was fined A$1,652 ($1,178).
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SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has reported 54 recent cases of COVID-19 as government paintings of fitness to stop transmissions of higher social and recreational activities.
The figures announced Wednesday through the South Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention raised the number of national bodies to 14,714 infections, 305 deaths.
The KCDC said that 35 of the new instances were local transmissions, all 3 reported in the densely populated Seoul metropolitan domain, which has been in the midst of a resurgence of the virus since last May.
The 19 cases were similar to foreign arrivals. The health government has declared that imported instances are less threatening because they require testing and impose two-week quarantines on all people arriving from abroad.
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MEXICO CITY – Mexico reported a record of nearly 926 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, bringing the country’s cumulative total to 53,929.
The Ministry of Health reported 6,686 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total number of cases shown in the country to date to 492,522.
At this rate, Mexico will soon succeed in the one million cases shown, however, given the incredibly low rate of testing (less than 1.1 million tests in a country of approximately 130 million more people), the number would be a much lower count. For the most part, only others with significant symptoms are tested in Mexico.
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RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper won another legal victory by protecting his COVID-19 executive orders, this time when a ruling was issued about Deputy Governor Dan Forest’s rejected request to block them saying that his lawsuit is unlikely to succeed.
Judge Jim Gale on Tuesday Forest’s request for an initial court order.
The Republican vice-governor sued Cooper last month, claiming that the Democrat ordinances restricting business activities and mass gatherings and the application of masks were illegal because, in the first place, he had not won that of the State Council. The 10-member board includes Attorney General Josh Stein and other elected state officials.
Cooper’s state attorney argued that the governor had acted well in certain parts of the Emergency Management Act that required the board’s consent.
Cooper and Forest are for governor this fall.
Forest said in a press release that since the ruling ruled that “Cooper has a hundred percent force a declared emergency,” the governor also “has one hundred percent responsibility” for the results, adding permanent business closures.
Cooper said Forest’s demands, if successful, can worsen the number of cases and hospitalizations that have stabilized or improved recently.
“Governor Cooper has taken decisive steps in fitness and life-saving protection,” spokeswoman Dory MacMillan wrote in an email.
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PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley said he planned to tell a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services visitor organization. That the long delays in obtaining the effects of coronavirus control were “very problematic” and pressure them to establish a strategy to implement a vaccine. once it’s available.
Long waits across the country for the effects of coronavirus control make them virtually dead to involve the spread of the virus, according to public fitness officials.
The organization will travel on-site to Philadelphia until Thursday, as part of an excursion to a handful of cities across the country, Farley said.
Farley said he saw it as a way to show what the people had done in terms of prevention, contact seeking and social estrangement efforts.