Category: World News

Mexico, Chile and Costa Rica have become the first countries in Latin America to start vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus. The vaccination launch in Mexico was broadcast live during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s morning press conference Thursday (local time). The head nurse of the intensive care unit of Rubén Leñero Hospital in Mexico City was the first Latin American woman to receive the Corona vaccination, as reported by El Universal newspaper. María Irene Ramírez is one of the frontline health workers treating patients related to Covid-19. “This is…

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Peru has registered more than one million Corona cases. According to health ministry data released Wednesday, the number of confirmed infections with the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen in the South American country has risen to 1,000,153 since the pandemic began, and more than 37,000 patients have died so far in connection with Corona. By the end of August, Peru, a nation of nearly 32 million people, had become the country with the highest mortality associated with the virus, with 89.99 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. Despite major efforts, the Peruvian government had failed…

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Oxford University and pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca have applied for approval in the UK for the Corona vaccine they are developing. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he was “delighted” that data on the vaccine, “developed here in the UK,” had been “fully” submitted to the health regulator MHRA. Meanwhile, the Biontech and Pfizer vaccine has been given 500,000 times in the UK. However, the British government is relying primarily on the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University. Orders have already been placed for 100 million doses of this vaccine. Production…

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The Robert Koch Institute reports a new high in Germany with 962 deaths within 24 hours related to the coronavirus. A total of 27,968 deaths were thus registered, the RKI said Wednesday. The previous high of 952 deaths had been recorded last Wednesday at the start of the hard lockdown. 24,740 more people tested positive. That’s about 5,000 more than the previous day, and about 3,000 fewer than a week ago. At that time, there were follow-up reports from Sachsen. The total number of detected infections thus rises to over…

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The British coronavirus mutation has not yet been found in Austria. “There has been no finding so far,” Health Minister Rudolf Anschober (Greens) said today. However, the Academy of Science and the Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) would “very strongly carry out sequencing.” These investigations have been intensified, the health minister said. Results would usually be available after a week, he said. “If there is a finding, that will of course be published,” Anschober stated. The new variant in Great Britain most likely makes the virus more easily…

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The number of reported deaths related to the coronavirus has reached a new high in Germany. Within one day, German public health departments transmitted 962 new deaths to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), according to RKI figures released Wednesday morning. In addition, 24,740 new infections were reported. Last Wednesday (Dec. 16), 27,728 new infections and the previous high of 952 deaths had been recorded. The peak of 33,777 reported infections had occurred on Friday, but this included 3,500 subsequent reports. The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported to…

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More than 500,000 people have been vaccinated against coronavirus in the United Kingdom so far, according to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. “This is a cause for hope and confidence,” Johnson said today in London. “We can look forward to a whole new world starting at Easter.” Mass vaccination with the drug from German pharmaceutical company Biontech and its U.S. partner Pfizer had begun two weeks ago. However, the new variant of the coronavirus, about which the British authorities had informed over the weekend, is causing concern. The impression that the…

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In Germany, 16,643 more people tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). This is a decrease from the previous day’s 22,771 new cases. This brings the total number to 1,510,652 positive tests. Another 226 people died from or with the virus. The previous day, there were 409 Corona deaths. A total of 26,275 deaths have now been recorded. The figures are usually lower on Sunday, as not all data are transmitted to the RKI. The so-called seven-day incidence rises to 197.1 from 192.2 the day before.…

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Even as coronavirus numbers continue to rise, Rio de Janeiro residents are still crowding the city’s world-famous beaches. Thousands of people crowded Leblon Beach, for example, which was packed with colorful umbrellas and visitors, as seen in photos. Most beachgoers were not wearing protective masks. Among other things, the city and state of Rio de Janeiro again recorded rising coronavirus numbers, and the occupancy rate of public and private intensive care beds for Covid 19 patients increased. Still, Governor Claudio Castro and Mayor Marcelo Crivella were unlikely to take a…

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