– According to today’s company statement, the vaccine of the pharmaceutical company Moderna protects against the severe course of the disease covid-19 with 100% effectiveness. In addition, Moderna said that since mid-November, when it published the first results from the third phase, it has not noticed any complications and will still apply for emergency vaccination of the vaccine in the USA and the EU. According to the complete results of the third phase, the overall efficacy of the vaccine is 94%.
– White House coronavirus expert Anthony Fauci told NBC that the United States should expect a continued increase in daily cases in the next two to three weeks after Thanksgiving. On Friday, the number of new cases exceeded 200,000 for the first time, and 143,000 more confirmed cases in the last 24 hours.
– Japan reports a record number of patients with severe symptoms of covid-19. A total of 462 of them are registered in the country, and 22 such patients have been added in the last day. According to the Ministry of Health, the country is facing a third wave of the disease, on Saturday the authorities recorded a record 2684 cases, 14 people died.
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