COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Last updated: January 11, 2021, 19:34 GMT
Coronavirus Cases:
90,990,108
Deaths:
1,948,269
Recovered:
65,007,883
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
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Turkey will begin administering Covid-19 vaccines as of Thursday or Friday, President Tayyip Erdogan has said, adding that Ankara would also gradually lift restrictive measures as daily infections declined.
Turkey has agreed to purchase 50 million doses of Sinovac’s CoronaVac vaccine and has taken delivery of an initial shipment of 3 million doses.
It has also agreed to procure 4.5 million doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, with an option to procure 30 million more doses later.
Speaking after a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Erdogan said the vaccination process would begin either on Thursday or Friday inline with the vaccination programme set out by the government.
Bangladesh to start Covid-19 vaccination by first week of February
Bangladesh will begin inoculating people against Covid-19 in the first week of February as it hopes to get the vaccine by end of this month, a senior health ministry official said on Monday in remarks reported by Reuters.
The South Asian country of more than 160 million in November signed a deal with the Serum Institute of India to buy 30m doses of the vaccine developed by British drugmaker AstraZeneca.
“The vaccine will be first applied on the health workers and it will be monitored for the next seven days. After that, we’ll begin the vaccination across the country in the first week of February,” he said.
California has recorded more than 30,000 deaths since the pandemic started
Johns Hopkins University data shows California has recorded more than 30,000 deaths since the pandemic started nearly a year ago.
Deaths have soared in America’s most populous state since a Covid-19 surge began in October, AP reported. It took California six months to record its first 10,000 deaths. But in barely a month, the total rose from 20,000 to 30,000.
Over the weekend, state officials reported a two-day record of 1,163 deaths.
California ranks third in the US in coronavirus deaths, behind Texas and New York, where there have been nearly 40,000.
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Pakistan to get Sinopharm vaccine ‘by early February’
The first batch of Covid-19 jabs from the Chinese vaccine manufacturing company Sinopharm will arrive in Pakistan by the first week of February, a top Pakistani official has told Anadolu Agency.
Dr Faisal Sultan, a special assistant to the prime minister on health, said the “first installment of 1.1 million doses for about 500,000 people” will be received from Sinopharm.
Sultan, who is also the acting health minister, had told Anadolu Agency earlier that authorities were negotiating with China and Russia, among others, to procure the vaccines, and that frontline workers and senior citizens will be inoculated first.
Pakistan has so far recorded a total of 504,293 cases of Covid-19 with 10,676 deaths.
WHO to launch Vaccination for poor countries in February
The World Health Organization hopes to be able to launch Covid-19 vaccines in poor and lower middle-income countries in February through its Covax programme, WHO senior adviser Bruce Aylward said on Monday.
“Over 40 countries have now begun vaccinating against Covid-19. However all of that vaccination, or virtually all, was in high income or middle income countries so far,” he said. “We have got to see vaccines going into arms in lower and lower-middle income countries.”
He said the Covax programme could begin vaccinating people in February, and there was an effort to speed it up so some vaccinations in poor countries could take place this month.
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