US gives the first vaccine dose more than 100 m – as it happens | World News

“Do not go to other sources, it is not reliable,” Morrison says. It is perhaps the closest to parliamentary (and former party) colleagues who share misinformation about the pandemic. The Department of Health recently launched a new website to combat misinformation about Covid and vaccines.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly address the media.

The NSW hotel worker who tested positive received the first dose of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination. but there is a delay time between vaccination and developed immunity, Kelly says. This is the state’s first case in 55 days.

Morrison also defends the government against criticism that the deployment of vaccines is not going according to plan. He says Australians believe the government was transparent, and Australia ‘is leading the world out of this pandemic’.

Hello, this is Helen Davidson in Taipei, here to take the blog through the next few hours. Thanks to Clea for everything so far.

Hong Kong facing its fifth wave of infections, with a growing group around a high-end gym that has recorded 99 cases so far. According to local media, the gym is popular with workers in the city’s central business district, and several large banks and law firms are among dozens of businesses that receive mandatory test assignments. Authorities have also locked up four residential buildings in the middle level, in a different ambush style, to ensure all residents are tested overnight before being allowed to move freely again.

From Bloomberg’s senior health editor as the United States administered a daily record number (more than 4.5 million) of vaccines:

According to the CDC, 68,884,011 people received at least one dose, while 36,929,777 people were fully vaccinated.

Brazil the country’s Ministry of Health registered a further 1,997 deaths and 76,178 new cases of Covid-19.

The country suffered the second deadliest outbreak to the world United States, according to Reuters, recorded a total of 277,102 deaths and 11,439,558 cases.

Authorities in the United States according to the national public health agency, the country administered a first dose of vaccine to more than 100 million people on Friday.

More than a third of this number received both blows.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 101 million stings have been administered since the country’s vaccinations began late last year.

A total of 10.5% of the U.S. population (more than 35 million people) had both doses, the CDC said.

Covid-19 infection levels in the larger Tokyo the area appears to be escalating, Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said, threatening to end the March 21 emergency response.

New business “stopped falling or getting higher in Tokyo”, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, Tamura told a news conference, the Japan Times reported.

Although coronavirus measures, including restrictions on the hospitality industry, have dropped cases to about a tenth of the peak recorded in early January, levels are still far from target figures.

“The number of new positive cases has stopped declining, and we need to be very vigilant about the possibility of a revival due to mutated tribes,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Friday.

Tokyo’s average of seven days of new infections has hovered in the mid to high 200s since the end of February, while the daily number of new cases surpassed more than 300 on Saturday for the fourth consecutive day.

ArgentinaThe government is concerned about the increase in Covid-19 cases across the region and will increase border controls and preventative measures, the country’s health minister said.

“There is a sustained and worrying increase in countries in the region,” Carla Vizzotti said, adding that the government was concerned about new variants of the virus circulating, according to a report in the Buenos Aires Times.

Vizzotti said the government advises Argentines to avoid traveling to countries such as Brazil with new variants of the virus.

The government will start warning about the local situation and discourage the population from traveling to places where there are new variants.

Australiacenter-left Labor Party re-elected in state Western Australia after the implementation of some of the country’s most stringent measures to slow down the spread of the coronavirus.

“I do not lose sight of the extent of what happened today. That comes with a huge responsibility, “said Mark McGowan, the prime minister, to supporters in Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

The vote was widely seen as a referendum on McGowan’s tough approach to tackling the pandemic.

Thousands of people gathered Montreal for a demonstration against the coronavirus measures of Quebec.