Coronavirus vaccine shots given worldwide

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At G20 summit, China's Xi calls for mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccines

Chinese President Xi Jinping on has called for the equal treatment and mutual recognition of Covid-19 vaccines based on the World Health Organisation's emergency use list, the official Xinhua agency reports.

In his remarks at the 16th Group of 20 Leaders' Summit, delivered via video link, Xi said China had provided over 1.6 billion doses of Covid shots to the world, and was working with 16 nations on the cooperative manufacturing of doses.

Two Chinese vaccines, one from Sinovac Biotech and one from Sinopharm, have been included in the emergency use list of the WHO.

 

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Australia set for international border reopening for vaccinated public

Quarantine-free travel from New Zealand to Australia will resume from Monday, Australia's tourism minister said, as the country readies itself for a partial reopening of its international borders for the first time since March 2020.

Vaccinated Australian citizens and permanent residents living in New South Wales, Victoria and the capital Canberra will be free to fly internationally from Monday without the need of an exemption or to quarantine upon return, according to Reuters.

For now, however, only tourists from neighbouring New Zealand will be allowed into Australia, provided they are vaccinated.

“The resumption of quarantine free travel from New Zealand to Australia is another important marker on our road to recovery,” Tourism Minister Dan Tehan said in a statement.

 

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More than five million people are known to have died of Covid-19 worldwide, 19 months since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Vaccines have slowed the death rate, but some health experts say the true toll could be far higher.
The milestone comes amid warnings from health officials that cases and deaths in some places are rising for the first time in months.

Nearly 250 million cases of the virus have been recorded worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the pandemic's real global death toll could be two to three times higher than official records.

In the US, more than 745,800 people have died, making it the country with the highest number of recorded deaths.


It is followed by Brazil, with 607,824 recorded deaths, and India, with 458,437. But health experts believe these numbers are under reported, partly because of deaths at home and those in rural communities.

It has taken the world longer to reach the latest one million deaths than the previous two.

It took over 110 days to go from four million deaths to five million. That is compared to just under 90 days to rise from three million to four million.

While vaccines have helped reduce the fatality rate, the WHO warned last week that the pandemic was "far from over".

Its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed to a rise in cases in Europe, where countries with low vaccination rates are seeing soaring infections and deaths.

Last week, Russia recorded its highest number of daily cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic. Russia accounts for 10% of the last million deaths recorded globally.



Dr Tedros said that if the vaccine doses had been distributed fairly, "we would have reached our 40% target in every country by now".

"The pandemic persists in large part because inequitable access to tools persists," he said.

Vaccines have allowed many countries to gradually open up, with most of the world now easing restrictions.

 

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More than five million people are known to have died of Covid-19 worldwide, 19 months since the pandemic began, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Vaccines have slowed the death rate, but some health experts say the true toll could be far higher.
The milestone comes amid warnings from health officials that cases and deaths in some places are rising for the first time in months.

Nearly 250 million cases of the virus have been recorded worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates the pandemic's real global death toll could be two to three times higher than official records.

In the US, more than 745,800 people have died, making it the country with the highest number of recorded deaths.


It is followed by Brazil, with 607,824 recorded deaths, and India, with 458,437. But health experts believe these numbers are under reported, partly because of deaths at home and those in rural communities.

It has taken the world longer to reach the latest one million deaths than the previous two.

It took over 110 days to go from four million deaths to five million. That is compared to just under 90 days to rise from three million to four million.

While vaccines have helped reduce the fatality rate, the WHO warned last week that the pandemic was "far from over".

Its director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus pointed to a rise in cases in Europe, where countries with low vaccination rates are seeing soaring infections and deaths.

Last week, Russia recorded its highest number of daily cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic. Russia accounts for 10% of the last million deaths recorded globally.



Dr Tedros said that if the vaccine doses had been distributed fairly, "we would have reached our 40% target in every country by now".

"The pandemic persists in large part because inequitable access to tools persists," he said.

Vaccines have allowed many countries to gradually open up, with most of the world now easing restrictions.

Died with. About 6% of these are died from.

 

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Emergency vaccine rule for large employers will be issued 'in the coming days'

By Kaitlan Collins and Kate Sullivan, CNN


(CNN) The Federal Register will publish within days the Labor Department's rule requiring private businesses with 100 or more employees to vaccinate them or test them weekly, fulfilling an announcement President Joe Biden made in September.

The Office of Management and Budget completed its required review of the emergency rule on Monday.

"On November 1, the Office of Management and Budget completed its regulatory review of the emergency temporary standard. The Federal Register will publish the emergency temporary standard in the coming days," a Labor Department spokesman said. "The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been working expeditiously to develop an emergency temporary standard that covers employers with 100 or more employees, firm- or company-wide, and provides options for compliance."

The spokesman added, "Covered employers must develop, implement, and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, unless they adopt a policy requiring employees to choose either to get vaccinated or to undergo regular COVID-19 testing and wear a face covering at work. The ETS also requires employers to provide paid time to workers to get vaccinated and paid sick leave to recover from any side effects."


In September, Biden announced the Labor Department would draft an emergency rule compelling private companies with 100 or more employees to require vaccinations or weekly testing.

The new requirements could apply to as many as 100 million Americans, which is close to two-thirds of the American workforce. The announcement amounted to Biden's strongest push yet to require vaccines for much of the country.

The new emergency temporary standard will require large employers to give their workers paid time off to get vaccinated. If businesses don't comply, the government will "take enforcement actions," which could include "substantial fines" of up to nearly $14,000 per violation, according to officials.


Officials have said the standard was a "minimum" and that some companies may choose to go further, including by mandating the vaccine instead of offering a testing alternative.

At the time, Biden also signed an executive order requiring all government employees be vaccinated against Covid-19, with no option of being regularly tested to opt out. The President signed an accompanying order directing the same standard be applied to employees of contractors who do business with the federal government.

About 22% of the eligible population has not received a Covid-19 vaccine, and the President has repeatedly urged these Americans to get the shot to protect themselves, their loved ones and help the nation recover from the pandemic.

More than 191 million people, or 58% of the total US population, are fully vaccinated. The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday issued emergency use authorization for Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for kids ages 5-11, which could pave the way for millions more Americans getting vaccinated, pending CDC approval.

 

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Covid-19 global death toll tops 5m in under 2 years


The global death toll from Covid-19 has topped five million, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones with first-rate health care systems.

Together, the United States, the European Union, Britain and Brazil — all upper-middle or high-income countries — account for one-eighth of the world’s population but nearly half of all reported deaths. The US alone has recorded over 740,000 lives lost, more than any other nation.

“This is a defining moment in our lifetime,” said Dr Albert Ko, an infectious disease specialist at the Yale School of Public Health. “What do we have to do to protect ourselves so we don’t get to another 5m?”

The death toll, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined. It rivals the number of people killed in battles among nations since 1950, according to estimates from the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Globally, Covid-19 is now the third leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke.

 

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Sri Lanka rolls out booster jabs amid warning of virus surge

Sri Lankan authorities have begun to roll out Covid-19 booster shots to frontline workers as the South Asian nation’s top medical association warned of a possible virus surge.

Pfizer booster jabs will be given initially to workers in the health, security and travel sectors, before including those above 60 years of age, the health ministry has said.

About 62 per cent of Sri Lanka’s 22 million people have been fully vaccinated, according to the ministry’s statistics.

Sri Lankan army soldiers wait to receive the third jab of anti-coronavirus vaccine in Colombo, Sri Lanka on Monday. — AP

 

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Pfizer raises COVID-19 vaccine sales forecast to $36 bln for 2021


8:10 AM · Nov 2, 2021

 

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'An Israeli study by Gazit et al. found that the vaccinated have a 27 times higher risk of symptomatic infection than the Covid recovered. At the same time, the vaccinated were nine times more likely to be hospitalized for Covid. In contrast, a CDC study by Bozio et al. claims that the Covid recovered are five times more likely to be hospitalized for Covid than the vaccinated. '

Professor Martin Kulldorff

A Review and Autopsy of Two COVID Immunity Studies ⋆ Brownstone Institute

I have never before seen such a large discrepancy between immunity studies that are supposed to answer the same question.

brownstone.org

 

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US buys more doses of Lilly's Covid-19 treatment for $1.29bn

Eli Lilly and Co say the US government has bought 614,000 additional doses of its Covid-19 antibody therapy for $1.29 billion, reports Reuters.

Under the deal, Lilly will supply a minimum of 400,000 doses of its treatment by December 31 and the rest by January 31.

 

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LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Two producers of COVID-19 tests in Britain said on Tuesday they had pulled some of their tests from the market after a new review system came into force, which has not yet granted approval for their previously accepted products.

Avacta (AVCT.L) said under the new system suppliers of COVID-19 tests had to submit information regarding their products for desktop review if they wished to remain on sale in Britain. It said it had submitted its information ahead of the Sept. 1 deadline and was still waiting for a response.

As a result it has suspended further sales of its AffiDX SARS-CoV-2 Lateral Flow Rapid Antigen Test in the UK. Its shares were trading down 8% in early morning deals on Tuesday.

France-based Novacyt said it had submitted 11 products for review before the deadline. Two have appeared on a temporary UK list that can continue to be sold, but it is waiting for an update on the additional nine products.

Its shares fell 3%.

Avacta said the new review system was "over and above" the European Union's CE health and safety mark and the successful registration with the UK's health regulator which it had previously achieved. No one at the UK Health Security Agency was immediately available to comment.


The two companies said only three products had been fully approved while a temporary list allows 48 tests, both PCR and antigen based, to remain on sale.

Britain is carrying out higher levels of testing than many other countries in Europe, and is currently seeing around 40,000 cases of COVID-19 a day.

 

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Health care workers in Greece protest mandatory vaccines


Hundreds of Greek health care workers are protesting in central Athens against mandatory coronavirus vaccines for their profession, reports AP.

The government imposed more restrictions on unvaccinated Greeks on Tuesday amid a spike in infections, hospitalisations and deaths.

About 300 demonstrators shouted slogans and held up banners outside the parliament building, protesting regulations that call for unvaccinated health care workers to be suspended from their jobs.

Health care unions have said they do not oppose the vaccines but object to them being required.

 

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Dutch reintroduce face masks as Covid-19 cases surge


Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the government has decided to re-impose measures, including the wearing of face masks, aimed at slowing the latest spike in Covid-19 infections, Reuters reports.

The use of a "corona pass", showing proof of a Covid-19 vaccination or recent negative coronavirus test, would be broadened as of November 6 to public places including museums, gyms and outdoor terraces, Rutte said.

In a televised news conference, Rutte called on all Dutch, vaccinated and unvaccinated, to stick to basic hygiene rules and to stay at home if they had symptoms of a possible infection.

 

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Dutch reintroduce face masks as Covid-19 cases surge


Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says the government has decided to re-impose measures, including the wearing of face masks, aimed at slowing the latest spike in Covid-19 infections, Reuters reports.

The use of a "corona pass", showing proof of a Covid-19 vaccination or recent negative coronavirus test, would be broadened as of November 6 to public places including museums, gyms and outdoor terraces, Rutte said.

In a televised news conference, Rutte called on all Dutch, vaccinated and unvaccinated, to stick to basic hygiene rules and to stay at home if they had symptoms of a possible infection.

Mask do nothing. It can't stop water vapor which contain virus. Also, by reducing symptoms, it spreads the virus faster.

 

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Mask do nothing. It can't stop water vapor which contain virus. Also, by reducing symptoms, it spreads the virus faster.

completely wrong, mask save lives
List of Covid-19 vaccine imported by Iran from February 3, 2021 to November 3, 2021

Country	Types of vaccine	Batch	Doses
China	Sinopharm	47	129,887,298
Russia	Sputnik V	16	3,313,600
Japan	AstraZeneca	3	2,911,810
South Korea	AstraZeneca	2	1,700,800
Italy	AstraZeneca	1	1,452,000
China	AstraZeneca	1	1,449,600
The Netherlands	AstraZeneca	1	1,442,000
India	Bharat Biotech	2	1,125,000
Austria	AstraZeneca	3	1,000,000
Poland	AstraZeneca	1	1,000,000
Russia	AstraZeneca	2	963,000
Greece	AstraZeneca	1	150,000
Total	80	146,395,108

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