Washington, United States.
United States starts this Monday one extensive vaccination campaign against the covid19, after a few emergency preparations over the weekend, while on the other side of the Atlantic, France launches a strategy of massive tests in some cities and Germany prepare a partial confinement.
In a year, the pandemic curd in addition to 1.6 million people in the world and more than 72.1 millions they became infected, according to an AFP balance sheet on Monday.
In United States, the country more hit the planet, the number of dead approaches the 300,000, with more than 16.2 million contagions. This weekend, the vaccine of Pfizer / BioNTech began to be sent to hospitals and other places, in refrigerated boxes at -70 ºC, from the Pfizer factory in Michigan.
The laboratory indicates that 20 planes transportaran sus vaccines every day. “The vaccines are sent and on the go “, celebrated on Sunday the American president Donald Trump on Twitter.
The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, stated for his part that his state (in this of United States), would be the first to vaccinate, less than 72 hours after the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine received the green light of the health authorities of the country.
About three million doses we should be available by March to vaccinate about 20 million people before the end of the year and 100 million before the end of March.
Urgency is urgent: las infections skyrocketed by 1.1 million of new cases confirmed in the last five days.
United States was the sixth country to approve the alliance’s vaccine on Friday Pfizer / BioNTech, after the United Kingdom, Canada, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Mexico.
In Europe, the European Medicines Agency will issue an opinion before end of month.
In the Old Continent, the hardest hit region in the world with 480,650 deaths and more than 22 million cases, fears increase before the end of the year in the face of a second wave that is accelerating especially in Germany and Italy.
Massive tests
Follow the AFP data, Europa is the area that recorded the largest number of new ones infections this week, averaging 236,700 daily.
France starts this week one mass testing strategy in some urban areas in hopes of controlling the epidemic, which leaves more than 57,900 bankruptcies and more than 2.3 million infections in the country, in view of a future confusion.
The strategy emulates the one applied in Liverpool, United Kingdom, at the beginning of November and whose balance was considered positive.
In Germany, on la pandemic “out of control”, according to Bavarian leader Markys Söder, was decreed a partial confinement from Wednesday until January 10, with the closing of shops non-essentials and schools. The country has more than 13 million cases and 21,975 deaths.
For its part, Switzerland, the director of the Zurich hospital demanded to stop the activity of the country and, according to the newspaper SonntagsZeitung, five university hospitals in the country expressed “their great concern” to the Minister of Health.
Italy, fifth country in the world most mourned by the pandemic after the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico, recorded 484 new deaths according to the latest balances and is already in the European countryor more affected with 64,520 bankruptcies and more than 1.8 million cases.
“Bubble” for travel
After closing its borders in March, New Zealand announcement of the moons hoping to open a travel “bubble” with Australia en the first quarter of 2021, provided that neither territory is under one new epidemic wave on a large scale.
“Our intention is to set a date after New Year pnow the beginning of the quarantined journeys, once it has returned to the last details, “said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
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The effectiveness of the response of New Zealand in the pandemic it was acclaimed internationally, as the country only officially recorded 25 deaths.
In South Korea, praised every year as a model for fighting the pandemic, the situation worsens, with 1,030 new cases reported on Sunday, surpassing the last day of contagion the day before.