Nikkei Asia is monitoring the spread of the new coronavirus that originated from the Chinese capital Wuhan.
Global affairs have reached 94,935,551, according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The worldwide death toll has hit 2,028,779.
To see how the disease has spread, check our virus detection records:
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Monday, January 18th (Tokyo Time)
2:53 am Brazilian health regulator Anvisa approves vaccines from Sinovac Biotech in China and AstraZeneca Britain for use in emergencies.
Sunday, January 17th
9:36 f Oman will close its land borders for a week from Monday to prevent the spread of the virus, especially a more contagious variant, the state news agency ONA said. The measure will take effect from 6pm (1400 GMT) on Monday and can be extended beyond the first week closing.
6:46 f India’s COVID-19 vaccine driver hit a bump on the first day because of wisdom in an app called Co-Win that is being used to coordinate the campaign, according to several officials involved in the vaccination program. Co-Win, developed by the government, has a right to help alert health care workers who are initially receiving shots, and to allow officers to monitor and ‘management of the whole campaign. But many health workers, who were about to receive the vaccines, did not receive the message Saturday, a senior official with the western state health department of Maharashtra said.
3:29 f Tokyo reports on 1,592 new cases of coronavirus, his government says. Japan extended a state of emergency in the capital to seven other prefectures on Wednesday to halt the rise in COVID-19 infections.
1:56 pm Thailand reports 374 new coronavirus cases, bringing its total infections to 12,054. No deaths have been reported, while 10 of the new cases were imported from abroad, Thailand’s COVID-19 action group says at a briefing. Thailand has recorded 70 coronavirus-related deaths in the past year.
10:05 am Mexico reports 20,523 newly confirmed coronavirus cases and 1,219 more deaths Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health, bringing the total to 1,630,258 diseases and 140,241 deaths.
10:04 m Brazilian health regulator Anvisa said on Saturday that it had returned documents sent by pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica seeking approval for emergency use of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine because it did not meet the most stringent criteria. low required. In a statement on the Ministry of Health website, Anvisa said the company ‘s request failed to provide an appropriate guarantee about its Phase III clinical trials and issues related to the manufacture of the vaccine.
Saturday, January 16th
10:30 pm Azerbaijan will begin vaccinating citizens on Monday, using a batch of 4 million doses from Sinovac Biotech in China, the Ministry of Health says.
The first to receive the photo will be medical staff followed by people over 65, starting Feb. 1, aide of president Shahmar Movsumov says. The doses are first transported to Turkey, where they are inspected and packaged, before batches arrive in Azerbaijan.
Elsewhere, Turkey has sent 20,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on Thursday, with President Ersin Tatar receiving the first dose on Friday.
8:04f The Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine is being approved for emergency use in Pakistan, the country’s health minister says, the first vaccine against the disease to receive the green light in a South Asian country.
7:46 f Malaysia records 4,029 new coronavirus cases, the largest daily increase in the country since the outbreak began, bringing the total number of infections to 155,095. The Ministry of Health is also reporting eight new deaths, bringing the majority to 594.
5:32 f Indonesia reports the highest daily increase in COVID-19 cases with 14,224 new infections, its coronavirus action group says, bringing the total to 896,642. It also reports 283 deaths, bringing the total to 25,767. Indonesia has reported the highest total disease infections and deaths in Southeast Asia.
2:51 pm The recent uprisings in northeastern China COVID-19 have come from travelers entering the country or importing contaminated frozen food, the National Health Commission ( NHC) says. NHC Minister Ma Xiaowei made the remarks at a government meeting, where he also said that the virus was spreading to rural areas and that the recent handling of the situation had revealed how preventive and control measures had been put in place. .
2:14 pm The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, will launch the world’s largest COVID-19 vaccine campaign, which is expected to infect around 300 million of the country’s 1.3 billion people over the coming months.
10:41 am U.S. forces in Korea (USFK) will place a shelter order on two of its largest bases – U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan and Camp Humphreys – until Tuesday after several outbreaks of coronavirus infections. It is not immediately clear how many cases were reported at both centers, but the USFK says six were tested positive on Friday. The command has been very successful in keeping diseases down to a handful.
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