Coronavirus live news: The EU wants 70% of adults to be vaccinated by the end of the summer; Israel extends Covid lock | World news

A World Health Organization team has visited the Huanan food market in Wuhan as part of their fieldwork in a politically conscious mission to investigate the origins of the pandemic, AFP reports.

Their journey is being tightly controlled, and the WHO has lowered expectations about identifying the source of the virus, which is known to have infected more than 102 million people so far with more than 2.2 million death.

The experts did not take any questions from journalists while visiting the market.

In the last few days, Chinese authorities have been pushing hard for a positive report on heroism and decisive, swift action against the virus.

But he has resisted criticism at home and abroad for his handling of Wuhan’s first instance and its lack of transparency.

AstraZeneca will increase its delivery of coronavirus vaccines to the EU by 30%, European Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday while the bloc was trying to waste time retrieving the jobs, AFP reports .

The British-Swedish company announced last week that it could only deliver a quarter of the doses promised to the block for the first quarter of the year due to problems at one of its European factories. .

But AstraZeneca, whose vaccine was authorized for use in the EU on Friday, has now agreed to phase out 9 million extra doses and “start delivery a week earlier than expected”, said Von der Leyen in a tweet.

An EU source said the first delivery would begin in the second week of February.

“They are now rolling out the delivery before another week … and will increase vaccine doses for February and March by about 30 per cent, which is 9 million doses,” von der Leyen said. .

But she also acknowledged that February and March would remain a “difficult stage” for vaccine provision.

In the second quarter, the Johnson & Johnson vaccine will be on the market “and the manufacturers will have solved their initial problems, so we can expect more vaccines,” she said.

The target was still to vaccinate 70% of adults in the EU by the end of the summer, she said.

Israel extended a national lockout on Sunday as Covid’s changes opposed their vaccination campaign and officials predicted a delay in a turnaround from the ongoing crisis.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted to extend the five-year national closure to Friday, pending parliamentary approval, Israeli media reported. Reflecting the country’s challenges in enforcing restrictions, thousands of ultra-rectangular crimes were present at Jerusalem funerals at two high-profile rabbits on Sunday, drawing criticism from coalition partners Netanyahu, Reuters reports.

The Prime Minister has encouraged swift vaccination of around 24% of 9 million citizens and locked them up as dual avenues to a possible reopening of the economy in February.

But a mid-January projected reversal in the spread of the pandemic did not happen, as serious cases have arisen among Israelis who have not yet received the vaccine.

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European Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen has said that the EU wants 70% of adults in the blog to be vaccinated by the end of the summer, Reuters reports.

Meanwhile, Israel extended a national ceasefire on Sunday as Covid’s turnaround corrected their vaccination campaign and officials predicted a delay in reversal from the ongoing crisis.

Here are the other key recent developments:

• Primary schools in the Netherlands will open from 8 February, the Dutch government announced Sunday, in the first relaxation of locking restrictions in months.
• The number of Covid patients in French hospitals hit a nearly nine-week high on Sunday, with 27,613 Covid victims receiving treatment in hospitals, up 331 on Saturday and reaching a level last seen on December 1st.
• The UK has produced the largest number of Covid vaccines in a single day, with figures showing 598,389 received their first dose on Saturday. The Government said a further 587 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Sunday, bringing the UK total to 106,158.
• On Sunday, Brussels police said they had detained scores of people in an attempt to prevent two banned demonstrations against measures to prevent the release of Covid-19. A police spokesman said more than 200 were arrested around noon.
• The UK’s priority is to vaccinate its own population before it can consider increasing doses to help the EU or developing countries, the international trade secretary has said. Earlier, the World Health Organization called on the UK to suspend its vaccination program after circulating vulnerable people and healthcare workers to ensure “fair distribution”.
• Both France and Germany have threatened to take legal action against the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. in the series over coronavirus vaccine shortages in the EU. Brussels raises concerns that doses may have been sent from plants in Belgium and Germany to the UK.
• A World Health Organization group looking into the origins of the pandemic coronavirus today visited a market in the Wuhan city of Chineses where the virus was first discovered. The Huanan market team arrived amid heavy security, with additional barricades set up outside a high blue fence around the market, and left in a convoy after about an hour. The experts did not take questions from journalists.
  
• Germany said today that it will support Portugal with medical personnel and equipment following a request for help from the country of Iberia, which said Saturday that only seven of the 850 ICU beds set up for Covid-19 cases on the mainland were empty. Austria said it would help bring in some intensive care patients from Portugal.