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Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold crisis talks on Monday with pharmaceutical executives, local German leaders and European Commission officials in an effort to speed up the continent’s faltering vaccine push.
AstraZeneca Plc will supply 9 million additional vaccine doses to the European Union in the first quarter, as the block vaccination rides on course. Bayer AG has agreed to manufacture CureVac NV’s experimental coronavirus vaccine to accelerate the spread of a promising shot that is in advanced clinical trials.
Valneva SE, a French vaccine developer, told the British government used an option to order 40 million extra doses of its experimental coronavirus shot for next year.
Infections are still showing a slowdown in many regions of the world, including the US, although there are still concerns about new variants. Italy will ease restrictions for most of the country from Monday.
Important developments:
- Global Tracker: business approaches 103 million; deaths exceed 2.2 million
- Vaccine Tracker: More than 98.3 million shots are given worldwide
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Merkel wants to invest in vaccine talks (16:45 HK)
Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold crisis talks in an effort to speed up Europe’s vaccination push. The video call this afternoon in Berlin comes after Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that AstraZeneca will supply 9 million extra vaccine doses to the European Union in the first quarter.
Germany’s infestation rate increased to 90.9 infections per 100,000 people over the past seven days from 90.2 on Sunday. The government said the level should be below 50 to facilitate restrictions.
Bayer helps CureVac produce covid vaccine (16:20 HP)
Bayer AG has agreed to manufacture CureVac NV’s experimental coronavirus vaccine to accelerate the spread of a promising shot that is in advanced clinical trials.
The move extends Bayer’s current treaty with CureVac as merely helping with regulatory clean-ups and global distribution. This follows the commitments of fellow European pharmaceutical giants Sanofi and Novartis AG to place their production capability on the Cfid-19 injection from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE.
British exercise option for 40 million Valneva doses (16:10 HK)
Valneva SE, a French vaccine developer, told the British government used an option to order 40 million extra doses of its experimental coronavirus shot for next year.
The commitment brings the size of the UK order to 100 million doses, Valneva said. Britain could still buy 90 million doses for delivery between 2023 and 2025, bringing the value of the contract to 1.4 billion euros ($ 1.7 billion) if all the options are used.
Singapore wants to crack down on crime syndicate legislation (14:51 HK)
Singapore tabled a bill Monday in parliament to formalize the use of contact tracing data in criminal investigations for serious crimes, after it was revealed that such information was used for the purpose in a murder case.
The law will stipulate that public sector agencies may use personal contact tracing data recorded in digital contact tracing systems only for contact tracing, unless necessary for police officers and law enforcement to use the data for criminal investigations and proceedings. with respect to serious violations, according to the Smart Nation and the digital government office in a statement Monday. Such crimes include murder, terrorism, kidnapping and serious sexual offenses.
Tokyo reports the fewest new cases since December (14:29 HK)
Tokyo has reported 393 new infections as a mitigating trend continues in the Japanese capital. While Mondays usually yield lower scores, the number is the smallest reported for a Monday since December 21, and this is a significant drop from a Monday peak of 1,219 cases on January 11. The moving average of seven days of new business dropped to about 850 from 1,812 three weeks ago.
Despite the improving situation, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga seems ready for a state of emergency this week for major metropolitan areas.
Astra increases dose deliveries amid chaotic EU rollout (13:11 HP)
AstraZeneca Plc will deliver 9 million extra vaccine doses to the European Union in the first quarter of this year as the bloc tries to get its chaotic vaccination underway.
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, announced on Twitter on Sunday that the drug manufacturer would start one week earlier than scheduled and expand its production.
China police seize more than 3000 doses of counterfeit vaccines (12:30 HK)
Chinese police have arrested more than 80 suspects involved in the manufacture and sale of Covid vaccines in a special campaign against vaccine-related crimes, Xinhua reported. Suspects use salt to make fake coronavirus vaccines and have been selling them to the public since September, the report said. The case has been exposed by the police in provinces and cities, including Jiangsu, Beijing and Shandong.
Biden invites GOP senators to meet a stimulus offer (10:18 HK)
President Joe Biden has invited a group of ten Republican senators to meet with him in the coming days to discuss their alternative plan for Covid-19. economic stimulus, the White House said Sunday night.
GOP lawmakers presented a $ 600 billion proposal early Sunday in a letter to Biden in response to the $ 1.9 billion plan he drew up more than two weeks ago that Republicans rejected.
South Korea sees the least growth in ten weeks (09:01 HK)
South Korea has reported 305 new cases in the past 24 hours, the lowest number in ten weeks. South Korea nevertheless said on Sunday that the restrictions on social distance would be extended by another two weeks as new infections recovered last week and reversed a downward trend.
UK meets vaccine milestone (8:19 am HK)
The United Kingdom is set on confirms that residents at every eligible care home in England have been offered a vaccine for Covid-19, even though a dispute over exports from Europe is raising concerns about supplies.
Jabs will be offered to residents of more than 10,000 homes where possible, after which official figures will show later Monday. The announcement comes after the assurance of the international trade secretary Liz Truss, yesterday that the country’s supply of vaccines is safe and that the country will stick to its rollout grid.
UK captain Tom hospitalized with Covid-19 (15:15 NY)
Photographer: Chris Jackson / Getty Images
Captain Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old veteran who has raised nearly £ 40 million ($ 55 million) for the British health service since the start of the pandemic. acknowledgetaken to hospital after testing positive for Covid-19. Hannah Ingram Moore said her father was diagnosed last week and was admitted to hospital for breathing, the AP reported.
Biden health adviser warns against virus variants (13:46 NY)
A top health adviser to President Joe Biden warned on Sunday that a new variant of the coronavirus circulating in the UK is likely to dominant tension in the US and could lead to future restrictions on personal gatherings.
Photographer: Glen Stubbe / Star Tribune / Getty Images
Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the country’s healthcare system must prepare for a recovery in severe cases such as those recently experienced in England. is.
NYC Vaccine Data Shows Racial Diversity (12:34 PM NY)
The city of New York broke its Covid-19 vaccination data by ethnicity for the first time, while the mayor A “big problem” with racial inequality.
White residents made up nearly half of the people who received at least one dose, even though they made up only a third of the population. Latinos, 29% of the city, make up only 15% of those vaccinated. The lowest proportion was among blacks – although they make up almost a quarter of the city’s population, only 11% of those vaccinated.
Andrew Cuomo, governor of the state of New York, said black New Yorkers are reluctant to take vaccines, in part out of mistrust.
Vaccine variety
White residents of NYC get excessive number of vaccines against Covid-19
New York Department of Health vaccination data; Population data from the 2019 U.S. Census
Restrictions on Italy eased (11:26 a.m. NY)
Italy reported 11,252 new cases and 237 deaths on Sunday, as it is ready to ease restrictions for most of the country as of Monday. The positivity rate even remained at around 5.2%. The cases in Italy have remained stable over the past few weeks and the country has so far avoided the sharp increases by some neighboring countries.
Both the Milan and Rome regions will fall into the so-called ‘yellow zone’ from Monday, the lower level of restrictions that allow pubs and restaurants to stay open during the day.
– Assisted by Jeff Sutherland