Latest updates: only 2. 6 million Americans have been vaccinated from the target of 20 million to the end of 2020; Portugal has recorded more than 7,600 cases
Crowds of others flooded north Korea’s capital’s main square, Pyongyang, to watch a concert and fireworks show marking the new year, state media reported amid restrictions to prevent a coronavirus outbreak.
State television showed participants dressed in a face mask but close to each other as they waved incandescent lights and balloons in Kim Il Sung Square.
The artists, none of them dressed in a protective mask, sang and danced on a level decorated with a giant “2021” colored sign. The costumes included classic Korean “hanbok” dresses and sequined dance costumes.
Giant snowman figures clapped as artists sang songs with patriotic choruses such as “Glory to General Kim Jong Un” and “I Love Him More. “
The occasion gave the impression of being smaller than in previous years, said Colin Zwirko, NK News’ Seoul correspondent, who monitors North Korea.
Definitely a much smaller occasion than last year, judging by the discreet presentation and the small crowd,” he wrote on Twitter.
North Korea said it had shown no cases of coronavirus, examined thousands of people, and the government imposed near-total border closures and other strident measures to prevent an outbreak.
Officials from South Korea and the United States say North Korea has had no cases.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said most of Mexico’s coronavirus vaccine crusade would be completed until April.
Until April, most Mexicans, the most vulnerable, will have been vaccinated,” López Obrador said at a regular government press conference.
Moderna Inc has shown that it will send 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to the South Korean government with deliveries starting in May.
The vaccine, which is licensed for emergency use in the United States and Canada, has recently been approved in South Korea.
The company said it would work with regulators to get approval before the vaccine is distributed.
The European Union’s drug control body said the German company BioNTech had implemented approval in the 27-country bloc to administer up to six doses of its COVID-19 vaccine from one vial, instead of the five recently approved doses.
In an email to The Associated Press, the European Medicines Agency said BioNTech, which developed its vaccine with Pfizer, has “filed a change request” that will be reviewed through the agency’s human committee “as soon as possible. “
He said that if the committee determined that six doses of the vaccine vial could be systematically removed, it would propose to amend the authorization allowing the use of the vaccine in EU countries.
The daily number of coronavirus cases in Portugal reached a record 7627 on Thursday, when the country was ready for moderate New Year’s Eve with a 23-hour curfew and not between municipalities.
The country, which has so far recorded 413678 cases and 6906 deaths from the virus, eased restrictions around Christmas, but took strong action again on New Year’s Eve with a ban between municipalities and public meetings, a 23-hour curfew and a 13-hour curfew. 1-3 January.
Cases had risen dramatically to 6,049 on Wednesday from 3,336 on Tuesday, but Prime Minister Antonio Costa said it was too early to say whether this was due to the rest of the Christmas rules.
“During the week of January, we will be able to assess the effect of Christmas,” Costa said.
“Fortunately, we have eased the restrictions, but now we want an era of containment to evaluate the results. “
U. S. police have been able to do so. But it’s not the first time And the federal government is investigating after a health care formula in Wisconsin said a worker admitted to intentionally wasting 500 doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
Aurora Medical Center first reported that doses were wasted on Saturday, claiming they were left uncooled overnight through an Aurora Medical Center worker in Grafton. The fitness formula has indicated that vaccine doses now appear to have been intentionally modified.
Grafton police, about 32 miles north of Milwaukee, said in a statement that the department, FBI, and the Food and Drug Administration were “actively investigating” the case.
In a statement, Aurora said the worker in question “deliberately recognized the refrigeration vaccine. “
Aurora claimed that she dismissed the worker and referred the matter to the authorities, saying nothing about a imaginable reason for the action.
We continue to say that vaccination is our way out of the pandemic. We are more than disappointed that this person’s movements cause the delay of more than 500 people receiving their vaccine. “
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has chosen to spend the last day of the year in Lesbos, of the current tragedy of refugees amid the pandemic.
The island, and other outposts in the east of the Aegean Sea, is among the ten most sensitive regions of Greece with the number of coronavirus cases.
Following the devastating fires that destroyed Moria, the notoriously overcrowded detention centre in Lesbos in September, some 7,500 asylum seekers are temporarily housed in an outdoor debatable tent camp in the port capital, Mytilene.
Visiting the facility, Mitsotakis stated that there were plans to upgrade the facility with a permanent in the new year.
The existing camp has been described as a crisis through local NGOs with Covid-19 restrictions, in position for a 2020 maximum, exacerbating what psychosocial experts have described as a crisis of intellectual fitness among refugees on the islands of Greece.
We said we’d close Moria. Of course, we didn’t expect it to close like it did, but even though everything closed and it was the best,” Mitsotakis said, describing the facility as a significant improvement in Moria.
We had taken the joint resolution with the President of the European Commission to a [new] place where local actors would agree, or at least agree at most, and I am glad that it has been achieved . . . so that we can move forward with a permanent structure, it will be much greater than that.
Refugees have been greatly affected by government measures to curb the spread of coronavirus, and only a limited number can leave asylum seeker camps at a time.
Case rates in England remain those of people age 30 to 39, Public Health England said.
The rate in this age organization is 557. 5 instances consisting of another 100,000 people in the seven days prior to December 27, a weekly increase from 495. 4.
Among 20- to 29-year-olds, the rate is higher than 498. 6 to 539. 5 and between the age of 40 and 49, it is higher from 465. 9 to 527. 3.
Rates decreased among young people over the age of five to nine, from 10 to 19 years old and those over 80.
The lowest rates were among the elderly 4 years of age or younger (150. 6) and five to nine years (167. 2).
Scotland recorded the number of new cases of coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic for the third consecutive day.
A total of 2,622 new ones have been reported in the last 24 hours, after 2,045 were reported on Wednesday and 1,895 on Tuesday.
Another 68 deaths were also reported on Thursday, raising the death toll under this measure of others who tested positive for the virus for the first time in the last 28 days, to 4578.
Seven Covid-19-related deaths were recorded between 25 and 29, 25 and 29 December – the government noted that civil registration offices had been closed on public holidays – and 43 more deaths on Wednesday.
The most recent statistics also show that a total of 127,453 others tested positive in Scotland, compared to 124,831 the previous day, with a daily positivity rate of 10. 1%. Wednesday was 11. 3%.
There are 1,174 people in the hospital living with the virus, 70 of whom are under intensive care.
All of mainland Scotland and Skye are still subject to Level Four restrictions, while the other islands are at Level 3.
Scotland police and the Scottish government have warned others to oppose Hogmanay’s rallies to mark the new year, as they can break restrictions and potentially spread the virus more.