The Associated Press
7h ago/ 1: 10 PM UTC
MOSCOW– Daily brand-new coronavirus infections in Russia struck a brand-new high on Monday, with authorities reporting a record 25,173 brand-new cases. The latest figure brings the country’s total to over 2.1 million. The federal government coronavirus task force likewise reported 361 deaths on Monday, raising the total considering that the start of the pandemic to 36,500
Russia, which presently has the world’s fifth-largest number of verified cases, has actually been swept by a quick coronavirus renewal given that September. Despite this, authorities firmly insist there are no strategies to enforce a second lockdown or to shut businesses nationwide.
Reuters
6h ago/ 2: 24 PM UTC
Hong Kong warns scenario ‘worsening rapidly’
HONG KONG– Hong Kong reported 73 new coronavirus cases on Monday as the federal government alerted the epidemic in the largely populated city is rapidly becoming worse with silent transmission chains feared in the middle of an increase in asymptomatic infections.
The Chinese-ruled city has actually up until now managed to prevent the widespread break out of the disease seen in lots of significant cities throughout the world, with numbers on a daily basis mainly in single digits or low double digits in current weeks.
Many of the current cases are linked to dance clubs and the government has interested residents in affected locations to take a Covid-19 test to assist include the outbreak. Mobile testing stations have actually been set up in numerous districts.
” The local epidemic scenario is worsening quickly,” the federal government stated in a statement. “A few of the verified cases are asymptomatic and this has actually shown the existence of numerous silent transmission chains in the community.”
Reuters
9h ago/ 11: 34 AM UTC
UK regulator will make vaccine decision in ‘quickest time possible’
LONDON – Britain medication regulator said on Monday it would aim to decide on Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine candidate “in the quickest time possible” after receiving additional data about the shot.
” It is our task now to carefully examine these information and the evidence sent on the vaccine’s security, quality and efficiency,” stated June Raine, chief executive of Britain’s Medicines and Health care products Regulatory Firm.
” As we have gotten this information through a rolling evaluation, we have currently started our analysis and will aim to make a decision in the quickest time possible, without compromising the thoroughness of our review.”
Rachel Elbaum
6h ago/ 2: 21 PM UTC
California governor in quarantine with household after kids exposed to Covid-19
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is quarantining with his family after three of his four kids were exposed to a patrol officer who tested favorable for Covid-19, he said in a tweet late Sunday.
Newsom said that he and his spouse, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, found out on Friday evening of his kids’s exposure to the officer from the California Highway Patrol. He and his better half were not exposed, he stated.
The family evaluated unfavorable on Sunday and they will be quarantined for 14 days.
California has actually seen a rise in Covid-19 cases and enacted a curfew on Saturday for the vast bulk of its counties. The remain at home order requires excessive work, movement and events to stop from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.
The Associated Press
8h ago/ 12: 17 PM UTC
China tests millions after coronavirus flare-ups in 3 cities
BEIJING– Chinese authorities are checking countless individuals, enforcing lockdowns and shutting down schools after numerous locally transmitted coronavirus cases were discovered in three cities throughout the nation last week.
As temperature levels drop, massive measures are being enacted in the cities of Tianjin, Shanghai and Manzhouli, in spite of the low number of brand-new cases compared to the United States and other nations that are seeing new ages of infections.
Many professionals and federal government authorities have warned that the chance of the virus dispersing will be higher during the winter. Recent flare-ups have actually shown that there is still a danger of the infection returning, regardless of being mostly controlled within China.
On Monday, the National Health Commission reported two brand-new locally transmitted cases in Shanghai over the last 24 hours, bringing the overall to seven considering that Friday. China has actually tape-recorded 86,442 total cases and 4,634 deaths considering that the infection was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
Yuliya Talmazan
9h ago/ 11: 11 AM UTC
AstraZeneca says its coronavirus vaccine can be around 90 percent reliable
LONDON– British pharmaceutical huge AstraZeneca said on Monday that its vaccine for Covid-19 could be approximately 90 percent reliable in preventing the disease– the third promising development in the battle against a pandemic that has actually killed almost 1.4 million people worldwide.
” This vaccine’s efficacy and safety verify that it will be extremely reliable versus Covid-19 and will have an instant effect on this public health emergency,” Pascal Soriot, Ceo, stated in a statement.
Analysis of data from a phase 3 trial of the vaccine established by Oxford University revealed that it was 90 percent efficient at stopping the disease when half a dosage was administered followed by a full dosage. In another dosing regiment, when two full doses were administered, the vaccine was 62 percent reliable, researchers stated, resulting in combined average effectiveness of 70 percent.
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