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Global affairs have reached 102,922,990, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The worldwide death toll has hit 2,226,935.
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Monday, February 1 (Tokyo time)
5:12 am European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen tweeted that AstraZeneca will deliver an additional nine million doses of its vaccine to the EU in the first quarter, making a total of 40 million for the period . Delivery will begin a week earlier than expected. The Anglo-Swedish company announced that in January it was not expected to cut supplies to the EU of its vaccine candidate in the first quarter, exploding a series of supplies. AstraZeneca would expand its manufacturing capacity in Europe, she said.
Sunday, January 31st
1: 40f A team of experts led by the World Health Organization was expected to investigate the origins of COVID-19 in downtown Wuhan Chinese visiting a market in Huanan later Sunday. The market is a major center for seafood where the coronavirus was first discovered.
1:01 f China’s factory activity grew at the slowest pace in five months in January, hit by a wave of domestic diseases but still in line with the continued recovery in the world’s second-largest economy. The official Manufacturing Purchasing Manager’s Index fell to 51.3 in January from 51.9 in December, the government said in a statement on Sunday.
12:47 pm Australia opened its “travel bubble” with New Zealand on Sunday after a neighbor announced no new locally sourced cases, but added new screening measures as they marked the longest run without disease since the beginning of the revolution. The decision marks the resumption of the same international entrants into Australia that do not require 14 days in a hotel quarantine. Australia had suspended quarantine exemptions for people who came across Tasmania six days earlier after New Zealand reported their first new case in months.
12:40 pm Takeda Pharmaceutical and two Japanese universities are developing a drug for the treatment of clogging and inflammation of the blood vessels, which are both complications of COVID-19. The drug uses a different mechanism from the existing coronavirus drugs. The developers report that it is likely to help reduce symptoms.
12:28 am Pakistan has received 17 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine under the COVAX scheme. About 6 million of the doses will come in the first quarter and the rest by the middle of the year, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of National Health Services Faisal Sultan said on Twitter.
Saturday, January 30th
11:15 pm Pregnant women with immune coronavirus antibodies are more likely to pass these antibodies to unborn babies, according to a new study from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the US
The findings, published in the JAMA Pediatrics of the American Medical Association, show that 72 out of 83 women who were pregnant or had a previous infection moved the antibodies over the placenta. Researchers say this may suggest that women who are pregnant and receiving the COVID-19 vaccine may be overcoming this as well.
7:26 f Malaysia reports the largest daily increase in coronavirus cases for the second straight day, with 5,728 new infections registered. The new cases brought the total number of infections to 209,661. The health ministry is also reporting 13 new deaths, bringing the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 746.
5:54 pm India reports the lowest active number of coronavirus cases in seven months, a year after the virus was first diagnosed in the country. The infection rate has dropped dramatically since September with 13,083 new cases reported on Saturday, one of the lowest numbers recorded and down from more than 20,000 per day at the start of the month, federal health data.
4:32 f The team led by the World Health Organization investigating the origins of COVID-19 in China visits a hospital in downtown Wuhan that treated early coronavirus patients. On the second day after two weeks in quarantine, the team travels to Jinyintan Hospital, where doctors had collected samples from patients suffering from an undiagnosed major seizure in late 2019. He did not speak. members of the team who were leaving the hospital told reporters, who had been kept at a distance since the group left their quarantine hotel Thursday.
3:57 p.m. The Taiwanese government is reporting the first death on the island since COVID-19 since May, as it fights against an unusually small number of locally transmitted cases. A woman in her 80s died of underlying health illnesses after being infected with the coronavirus as part of a hospital-linked domestic group, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung said.
12:47 pm The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing an eradication order requiring the use of foreign surfaces on almost all forms of public transportation while the country continues to report tens of thousands of COVID-19 deaths per day.
The order, which takes effect at 11:59 pm normal east east Monday, requires passengers to wear face masks on planes, ships, trains, underpasses, buses, taxis, and rations cycling and at transport hubs such as airports, bus or ferry destinations, railway and underground stations and seaports.
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