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More than 224 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.6 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Protests against tighter Corona rules in France again brought more than a hundred thousand people to the streets for the ninth weekend in a row. However, participation in the demonstrations, which were spread across the country, dropped again on Saturday (Sept. 11). According to France’s Interior Ministry, 121,000 people protested, 20,000 fewer than the previous…

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More than 223 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. About 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. U.S. President Joe Biden is ramping up pressure on the minority of his countrymen who are still unvaccinated. Speaking at the White House on Thursday (9/9), Biden said many people in the US are frustrated at the nearly 80 million Americans who are still unvaccinated. Thanks to free, effective and safe vaccines, they have the tools…

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The government in Bratislava is allowing Pfizer’s Corona vaccine for children 5 years and older. The vaccination is voluntary and will be administered by pediatricians, Slovak media report.Biontech/Pfizer’s Covid vaccine has been open to all school children in Slovakia since Thursday. The government in Bratislava approved the vaccine for five- to 11-year-olds, Slovak media reported. Health Minister Vladimir Lengvarsky stressed that the vaccination is voluntary and will be administered at the request of parents and with the approval of the child’s pediatrician. In the EU, the vaccine is generally approved…

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More than 222 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. About 4.6 million infected people have died. More than 5.5 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Only about one in 5,000 has contracted the coronavirus despite being vaccinated twice. That’s according to new data from America. As the “New York Times” writes, detailed figures from the American states of Utah, Virginia and King County were examined. In regions, which are less strongly affected by Corona, the risk sinks even again and would…

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In Chile, children as young as six years old are to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the future. On Monday next week, the vaccination campaign for children between the ages of six and eleven will begin, Health Minister Enrique Paris said Wednesday during a visit to the city of Arica in the north of the country. The children are to be vaccinated with the CoronaVac vaccine produced by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac.Earlier this week, the Public Health Institute had granted the vaccine emergency approval for children six years and…

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New Zealand is largely lifting its nationwide Corona lockdown after three weeks. Restrictions would be eased starting Wednesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday (Sept. 6). Only in the major city of Auckland on the North Island, the center of the current outbreak, would the rules initially continue to apply, Ardern said. The government in the island nation had imposed a nationwide lockdown on Aug. 18 after the discovery of a single case of corona. At times in late August, more than 80 cases a day were recorded. In the…

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Cuba has become the first country in the world to begin CoV vaccination for young children. Yesterday, authorities in Cienfuegos province began vaccinations for the two- to 11-year-old age group. The children receive the vaccines Abdala and Soberana, developed in Cuba, but not recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO). Children as young as twelve have been vaccinated since Friday. Schools closed at least until OctoberDue to the pandemic, Cuba’s schools have been closed most of the time since March 2020. Yesterday, the new school year began – via television,…

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More than 220 million people have tested positive for the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 4.5 million infected people have died. More than 5.4 billion vaccine doses have been administered worldwide. Health ministers from the top 20 industrialized and emerging economies (G-20) plan to push for greater equity in the distribution of Corona vaccines worldwide. The conditions are in place to agree on a “Rome Pact” for this purpose, Italy’s health minister, Roberto Speranza, said Sunday evening (Sept. 5) in Rome. A mandatory point of the…

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According to the Robert Koch Institute, more than four million corona infections have been detected in Germany. Once again, public health departments report more than 10,000 new infections. The incidence of hospitalization in Germany continues to rise. In addition, more than four million infections with Sars-CoV-2 have now been detected. Since the start of the Corona pandemic, more than four million people in Germany have been confirmed to be infected with the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen. So far, public health departments have reported 4,005,641 infections, according to data from the Robert Koch…

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