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Spain to share coronavirus vaccine-refusal registry with European Union countries
The purchase will bring the EU's total number of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses to 300 million. "So that means we can start to address some of the urgent needs that we have to protect people in some of our remote and isolated, particularly First Nations communities, and also residents of long-term care homes, where we know the virus is causing the most damage", Henry said. [Full Article...]
Spain Wants To Register People Who Refuse COVID-19 Vaccine
Spain is looking to introduce a registry of those who decide to not be vaccinated against COVID-19. Dubai, home to over 3.3 million people, last week started a free vaccination campaign, which in the first phase is targeting senior citizens and residents aged 60 and above. [Full Article...]
Coronavirus won't be the last pandemic, World Health Organization chief warns
He also criticised the "dangerously short-sighted" cycle of throwing money at outbreaks and forgetting all about it. "We are leaning. We will continue to learn and I am hopeful that we will be better prepared for the next one", she said. Europe is the world's hardest-hit region, passing the 25 million case mark last Friday and with 546,000 deaths. Last week, an average of 580,000 new cases wer... [Full Article...]
'National restrictions needed to prevent catastrophe' amid rising hospital cases
This comes after a new, more infectious strain of the coronavirus is believed to have mutated in England's southeast which forced many nations to suspend flights from the UK. Professor Andrew Hayward, of the government's New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), said widespread Tier 4 restrictions - or even higher - are likely to be needed as the country moves towards ... [Full Article...]
744 new Covid cases and 4 more deaths
Hospitalisations have increased sharply in the last two days. The county has now had a total of 1,372 cases of COVID-19 - a rate of 3,473.6 per 100,000 population, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. There have been 47 additional hospitalisations in the past 24 hours. The 7-day incidence is 140. This indicates that the virus is increasing its foothold out in our communities. [Full Article...]
More than 50000 test positive for Covid in a single day
Not all data was reported in full over the Christmas period, leading to a lag in some data, but Public Health England said there had been a "real increase". More than 20,000 people are in hospital now being treated for COVID-19, 5,000 of them in London . Professor Hayward told the BBC that these curbs needed to be extended further. [Full Article...]
25 new cases and one death reported Monday
LOS ANGELES-Hospitals in Los Angeles County are reporting a surge in COVID-19 patients and some have been forced to temporarily cease ambulance arrivals and use gift shops as makeshift treatment rooms, a report Tuesday said. "We look at many metrics when monitoring the disease severity of Covid-19". Vaccine doses administered in Idaho: 10,459, according to Health and Welfare. [Full Article...]
OH reports 4,519 new coronavirus cases, to a total exceeding 675,000
During a briefing Monday morning, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said health officials thought one possible reason was that only people who had symptoms of COVID-19 went to be tested over the holiday weekend. The number of those who have recovered from coronavirus in Hamilton County is 24,127, which is 87 percent, and there are 3.405 active cases. One of those deaths occurred in Marshall County. [Full Article...]