Many countries have a sharp increase in cases and deaths

In the context of the complicated disease situation, the Czech Government on December 23 announced that it would raise the epidemic alert level to the highest level from December 27, according to which the country will impose measures to prevent the spread of the virus. More stringent disease prevention measures, including closing non-essential shops, ski resorts, and tightening curfews and regulations on mass gatherings.

Many countries have a sharp increase in cases and deaths

In Germany , as of 6am on December 25 (Vietnam time), the total number of infections in this country has increased to over 1.61 million cases after adding 26,418 new cases. In the past 24 hours, Germany also recorded an additional 554 deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total to 29,681 cases.

In the UK , the incidence of the disease in England has increased again in the week to December 18, with about 645,800 cases (equivalent to 1 in every 85 people infected). According to the UK National Statistics Service (ONS), the incidence of the disease continues to increase sharply in London, the eastern region of England and the Southeast, of which London has the highest rate of infection.

The French Medical Quality Assurance Agency (HAS) said on December 24 that it had approved the circulation of a vaccine against acute respiratory infections COVID-19, manufactured by two US pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech. .

Meanwhile, New Delhi’s Chief Minister of India, Arvind Kejriwal, announced that 5.1 million people in this city had been identified in the first group of people to be vaccinated against COVID-19. New Delhi has set up and arranged storage areas for 7.4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, which will increase to more than 10 million doses in the next week.

On December 23, Health Canada announced that the country had approved the use of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by the US biotechnology company Moderna. Thus, Canada has become the second country in the world to “green light” for Moderna’s vaccine, after the US.

Meanwhile, Costa Rica is also expected to deploy vaccination against COVID-19 on December 24 – a day after receiving the first batch of vaccine.

Also in Latin America, Mexico will start a COVID-19 vaccination program for people on Christmas Eve 24 December, with 3,000 doses of the vaccine in the first batch of vaccines that the country received from Pfizer. Chile is expected to start a vaccination campaign next week, while Argentina is waiting to receive the Russian vaccine Sputnik V.

The Australian Government has just completed signing contracts with distribution, logistics and company companies to monitor the progress of COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the country from March 2021, in which the priority target group is the following: health workers and the elderly.

The national airline Aerolineas Argentinas of Argentina on December 23 announced that a special flight to Russia to receive the first batch of Sputnik V vaccine has arrived in Moscow and is expected to return to the country on December 24. received all 300,000 doses of potential vaccine against COVID-19 acute respiratory infection.

Meanwhile, Peru is hoping to receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine in the first quarter of 2021.