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Global affairs have reached 111,319,845, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The global death toll has hit 2,465,258.
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Monday, February 22 (Tokyo time)
10:15 am China will report 11 cases for Sunday, compared to seven the previous day. All new infections were introduced. There were also eight asymptomatic patients, compared with six the previous day. China does not classify asymptomatic cases as confirmed diseases.
9:52 am South Korea confirms 332 cases, down from 416 days ago, bringing total infections to 87,324 with 1,562 deaths. The government plans to pay a fourth “disaster subsidy” to small shop owners by March to compensate for pandemic-related losses.
9:00 am Australia will begin its massive vaccination program with frontline health care workers and the elderly receiving their first doses. A group of 20 that included Prime Minister Scott Morrison received its first shots on Sunday with wider inoculations to begin Monday morning. Authorities plan to administer more than 60,000 doses by the end of the week. The vaccine – developed by Pfizer and BioNTech – will be rolled out in the early weeks, with the first batch of AstraZeneca expected to reach the country in the next two weeks.
4:00 am The U.S. has dispensed 63,090,634 doses of COVID-19 vaccines as of Sunday morning, up from the peak of 61,289,500 on Saturday morning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
1:00 am Around 240,000 couples in Japan have canceled or canceled marriage plans over the past year amid reports of pandemic reports, public broadcaster NHK, citing estimates by the Association of the Wedding Institute.
The impact extends beyond the couples and their families: The industry’s economic losses amount to about 850 billion yen ($ 8 billion), according to the association.
Sunday, February 21st
6:33 am Ten months after a negative turnaround for the first time in history, oil prices are heading up to their pre – COVID level, driven by vaccine optimism and oil producer production cuts. Read more in this week’s Nikkei Asia Spotlight Market.
4:14 f South Korea will begin administering the first of 117,000 doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine on Feb. 27, the day after the country began its first vaccination with an AstraZeneca offering, the Prime Minister announces. Plans call for about 10 million high-risk people, including health care workers and workers and some residents of supported care facilities and nursing homes, to be in place by July.
3:37 f The Taiwanese government says it has confirmed three cases of the COVID-19 variant first discovered in Brazil and that everyone who comes from that country will receive a centralized quarantine from this week.
1:27 Malaysia will move up its COVID-19 inoculation campaign two days after the first batch of vaccines arrive in a Southeast Asian country.
A man is being vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of a Tel Aviv town campaign offering free drink at a bar to residents receiving the picture, in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 18. © Reuters
1:00 pm Israel’s rate of coronavirus infections fell 95.8% among people who received both pictures of the Pfizer vaccine, the Ministry of Health says.
The conclusions were based on data collected nationally through February 13.
Israel is reopening an oath of their economy in what it says is a return to normalcy enabled by a COVID-19 vaccination campaign that has reached nearly half the population. While shopping is open to all, access to recreational sites such as gyms and theaters is limited to vaccines or those who have apparently survived the disease with immunity – Green Pass status added called displayed on a special app of the Ministry of Health.
10: 10m Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has developed the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech as the country begins its inoculation program a day ahead of schedule. Up to 4 million Australians are expected to receive the COVID-19 vaccine voluntarily by March.
10:07 am Japan will receive a second shipment of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while continuing to include an initial group of health care workers in the first phase of vaccine distribution. The carrier will carry up to about 450,000 doses of the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus approved by Japan for use arriving at Narita Airport near Tokyo after the European Union handed out the green light under its controls. her new vaccine dealer.
1:08 am Fujifilm Holdings Japan will resume clinical trial for their flu-fighting drug Avigan to treat Japanese COVID-19 patients as early as April, Nikkei has learned, giving new life to the drug seen as an early game changer. stages of the pandemic. Avigan, already approved in India and Indonesia for emergency use to treat COVID-19 patients, failed to win the green light in Japan last year after a health ministry expert board co. postponement of closure in December.
Saturday, February 20th
8: 35f Malaysian glove maker Top Glove says it has resolved overcrowded cases at dormitories dedicated to its foreign workers following a coronavirus uprising among its occupants. his job last year was to examine their life situation. More than 5,000 employees at Top Glove were infected with the coronavirus and one of them died in the largest COVID-19 outbreak in Malaysia.
6:22 f The Philippine Department of Health reports 239 new coronavirus deaths, the second highest daily increase in casualties since the start of the pandemic.
11:04 m New Zealand begins rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, and Australia has finalized plans to begin inoculations on Monday, a new stage in the fight against the virus which both countries are largely held by.
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