A resident will receive a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the Palace Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Miami, Florida, on Dec. 29.
Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg
Photographer: Eva Marie Uzcategui / Bloomberg
The Covid-19 variant found in the UK has reached Colorado, the state governor said Tuesday. And U.S. President Joe Biden criticized vaccine circulation efforts under President Donald Trump as too slow, reiterating its commitment to deliver 1 million doses daily after taking office.
Meanwhile, the U.S. government’s chief infectious disease doctor said the country’s vaccination rate is declining and expressing concern about a post-holiday coronavirus outbreak. Doctor Anthony Fauci told CNN that U.S. officials hoped more people would be vaccinated now.
The European Union will take an additional 100 million doses of the vaccine developed by BioNTech SE and Pfizer Inc. Denmark extended the closure by two weeks.
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Covid Variant is found in Colorado (6 am HK)
Colorado Governor Jared Polis has announced the state’s first case of the Covid-19 variant found in the UK This is the first time the strain has been discovered in the U.S., according to the Washington Post.
The man arrested is a man in his 20s who is alone in Elbert County and has no travel history, Police said on Twitter. It will stay there until it is cleared by public health officials.
Biden says US needs a quicker response (5:45 m HK)
U.S. President Joe Biden blamed the slow rollout of the coronavirus vaccine by President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday, saying the plan fell “far behind” where it needed to be.
“As I have long feared and warned, the attempt to roll out the vaccine is not progressing as well,” he said. “If it continues to move as it does now, it will take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people. ”
Biden outlined his plans to accelerate the project, what he called one of the biggest operational challenges in decades. He said he would attack the Defense Production Act to help ramp up vaccine production and reiterated his oath to distribute 100 million doses of the vaccine in his first 100 days in office.
More than 2 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been given in the U.S. since the process began on Dec. 14, according to a national census by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
California expands emergency orders (5:30 am HK)
California has expanded home stay orders for the southern part of the state and the San Joaquin Valley as hospital bed capacity is still lagging behind on demand. Residents are being urged to stay in their homes except for necessary activities, state health and human services secretary Mark Ghaly said Tuesday in a conference call with reporters.
Hospitals are running out of staff, using rooms that are not normally used for patients and the sick are having long waiting times in emergency rooms, Ghaly said. “We saw the worst of it in early January and many of the hospital leaders I speak to are pushing for that. ”
NY Shortens Quarantine Time (3:50 am HK)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo shortened state quarantine guidelines to 10 days from 14 to align with recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The rule applies to people exposed to Covid-19 who have not tested positive. These people can complete their quarantine after 10 days without a test requirement as long as they have no symptoms, Cuomo said Tuesday.
The state reported 11,438 new cases of Covid-19, or 7.14% of those confirmed Monday. The Mohawk Valley has the highest rate, at 9.11%; Finger Lakes, 8.66% and the capital area, by 8.6%.
New York City was 4.96% positive Monday, among the lowest of the 10 regions in the state, with the city of Staten Island reporting the highest percentage and Manhattan the lowest.
Total state hospitals are still climbing, to 7,814 as of Monday. That’s double the total at the beginning of December. At least 124 people died, following a series of more than a week of 100-plus deaths each day.
France considers invitations earlier (3:35 am HK)
The French government is considering earlier invitations in parts of four regions on January 2, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on France 2 television on Tuesday. Following consultations with local authorities, the curfew can be brought forward to 6pm from 8pm in areas where hospitals are full, the minister said.
The new curfew will apply in some cities and counties of the Far East, Burgundy, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur regions, he said. While recent locking and the flow closure of restaurants, cinemas, theaters, museums and sports parks have reduced daily infections, the number is still too high, Veran said.
Denmark extends lockdown (2:30 m HK)
Denmark is extending a lockdown imposed before Christmas to fight the spread of the pandemic, which the government says is now more dangerous than in the spring.
Shops, restaurants, gyms and schools will remain closed until Jan. 17, two weeks longer than originally expected, Mette Prime Minister Frederiksen said in Copenhagen on Tuesday. Danes should continue to work from home to the best of his ability, she said.
Although the number of infections has declined slightly in recent times, with an average of around 2,600 daily cases over the past week, the number of people requiring intensive care at Danish hospitals has declined. go up a lot.
NYC Vaccines More than 67,000 (12:05 am HK)
New York City had delivered 67,116 Covid vaccine doses as of Monday night, about 17% of the total delivered to the most populous city in the U.S..
“That’s just the beginning; you are going to see a lot more, ”Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday at a press conference.
The vaccination effort will lead the way to the city of about 8.5 million to overcome the outbreak, de Blasio said. Meanwhile, New York continues to fight the second wave.
The city reported a positive rate of 7.45% of Covid-19 tests, based on a seven-day average, up from less than 3% in November. The city’s hospitalization rate rose to 3.93 per 100,000 residents, above a target of 2 per 100,000; and the seven-day average of new daily cases is at 3,390, well above the target of 550.
De Blasio warned that the numbers are “a bit strange” due to different test patterns during the holidays.
EU to get more Pfizer vaccine doses (11:20 pm HK)
The European Union will take an additional 100 million doses of the vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a tweet. That brings the total amount of the union to 300 million.
Dutch affairs falling; More in hospital (10:16 pm HK)
The number of coronavirus cases in the Netherlands has fallen in the past seven days, according to the health group RIVM. In the week ending December 29, 67,388 new Covid-19 cases were diagnosed, down from 82,340 reported in the previous seven days. However, the number of deaths and patients admitTed went to intensive care units climb from the previous week. In a separate report, the Dutch statistical office CBS reported the total number of deaths this year up to last week there were more than 162,000, with a further 13,000 deaths over that period.
Ireland Measures Tighter Restrictions (9:26 pm HK)
The Irish government will meet on Wednesday to measure tighter pressures to prevent the spread of the virus, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly told RTE Radio. New restrictions could include closing unnecessary stores and restricting further home visits, he said.
Hospitals have gone up 75% in the past week, Donnelly said, as things are spinning in new cases. Any new restrictions would come less than a week after the government closed restaurants and banned inter-county travel. The new variant, which could be more infectious, is a “game changer,” Donnelly said. The minister spoke at the launch of the Irish vaccination campaign.
Fauci says U.S. bags in vaccine rates (8:48 pm HK)
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said officials hoped more people would be vaccinated now. “We certainly don’t have the numbers we wanted at the end of December,” he told CNN. “I believe that when we come in January we are going to see an increase in the trend, which I hope allowing us to capture up to the expected distance. ”
Moncef Slaoui, science officer of Operation Warp Speed, said on a call just before Christmas that sights were not getting into people’s arms as quickly as he thought. Approximately 1 million doses were given as of Dec. 23, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, slowing the pace of circulation.
– Supported by Dan Reichl, Stacie Sherman, Christopher Palmeri, Emma Kinery, and Nancy Cook