* China on Sunday reported seven new COVID-19 cases in the mainland for Feb. 20, compared with eight cases a day earlier, the health authority said. All the new infections were imported cases, the National Health Commission said in a statement. There were no new deaths. * All adults in Britain will be offered a first shot of a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of July, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday ahead of a planned announcement on the cautious reopening of the economy from lockdown. * Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Sunday, calling the start of the nation's vaccination programme a "massive step" that will enable it to return to normal. * The Italian Coast Guard said on Saturday it had rescued 45 migrants after their ship capsized 15 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa. * A shipment of 150,000 COVID-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University arrived at Belgrade airport on Sunday, making Serbia the first country in the Western Balkan region to receive supplies of the shot. * Russia on Sunday reported 12,742 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, including 1,602 in Moscow, taking the national tally to 4,164,726. Authorities also reported another 417 deaths, raising the official toll to 83,293. * Brazil registered 1,212 additional COVID-19 deaths and 57,472 new confirmed cases of the virus on Saturday, according to data released by the Health Ministry. The South American nation has now recorded 245,977 total coronavirus deaths and 10,139,148 confirmed cases. * The number of new coronavirus cases in France compared to a week earlier rose for the third day in a row, with the health ministry reporting 22,371 new cases on Saturday, compared to 21,231 last Saturday. The seven-day moving average of new cases increased further by 163 to 19,217, after falling nearly continuously in the first half of the month. * Italy reported 251 coronavirus-related deaths on …
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* Brazil will begin to produce a COVID-19 vaccine in the first half of 2021, a state-run biological sciences institution said Monday. * India's COVID-19 tally rose to 11,016,434 on Tuesday as 10,584 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours, said the latest data from the federal health ministry. According to the official data, the death toll mounted to 156,463 with 78 new deaths. * President Joe Biden led Americans in observing a moment of silence on Monday to commemorate the grim milestone of more than 500,000 US deaths from COVID-19, urging Americans to set aside partisan differences and fight the pandemic together. * Singapore has been testing out a "bubble" business hotel that will allow quarantined executives arriving in the country to do face-to-face meetings. * The Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday it is disappointing that the European Union (EU) foreign ministers had decided to prepare new sanctions against Russian citizens "under a far-fetched pretext." * Italy extended a ban on non-essential travel between the country's 20 regions until March 27, while the number of people being treated in intensive care units in France exceeded 3,400 for the first time since Dec. 3. * Scotland's vaccination drive appears to be markedly reducing the risk of hospitalisation, preliminary study findings showed. * Pfizer expects to deliver more than 13 million vaccine doses per week to the United States by the middle of March, a top company executive said. * Australia will ramp up its immunisation drive with more shots to be rolled out from next week, after a second shipment of the vaccine reached the country overnight. * The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 3,883 to 2,394,811, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Tuesday. The reported death toll rose by 415 to 68,318, the tally showed. * Nearly half a million Cuban children will be vaccinated against polio starting Monday as …
March 2 – 8: Vietnam reports nine new COVID-19 cases
Vietnam reports nine new COVID-19 cases Nine new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Vietnam on late March 8, according to the Ministry of Health. The new cases include four in the northern province of Quang Ninh, two in the northern border province of Lao Cai, two in the central city of Da Nang and one in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. All of them boarded flight VN0054 from London to Noi Bai on March 2 – the same flight as female patient N.H.N who was confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on March 6. Vietnam has detected 30 COVID-19 infection cases to date. Of them, 16 patients have recovered and were discharged from hospitals, while 14 are currently under quarantine. They are in stable health condition. Medical declaration applies to all entries to Vietnam Starting from March 7, all passengers entering Vietnam must make a mandatory medical declaration. (Photo: VNA) All passengers entering Vietnam must make a mandatory medical declaration, starting from 6 am on March 7. The information was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at a meeting of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on Friday morning (March 6). For convenience, passengers can make an electronic medical declaration before making their trip to Vietnam at http://suckhoetoandan.vn/khaiyte. The website has been developed by the Ministry of Health (MoH) in collaboration with other local tech companies to make the procedure simpler and more convenient for passengers. Vietnam approves new coronavirus test kits, daily capacity at 10,000 units The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has approved the use of a test kit for the new coronavirus which was jointly developed by the Vietnam Military Medical University (VMMU) and Viet A Corporation. The announcement was made on March 5th by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), which sponsored the diagnostic kit development. The successful development has made …
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