Here we follow all developments on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on an international scale. Portugal rescued 2577 new cases and 19 more deaths due to Covid-19 on Sunday.
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9:00 am -China registers 20 new imported cases
The China Health Commission announced today that 20 cases of covid-19 have been identified in the past 24 hours, all from abroad.
The ‘imported’ cases were diagnosed in Shanghai (east), Inner Mongolia (north), Shaanxi (northwest), Hebei (north), Shanxi (northwest), Guangdong (south), Sichuan (southwest) and Fujian (southeast).
The city of Kashgar, in the Xinjiang region, confirmed the existence of 137 asymptomatic cases, related to an infected and also symptom-free teenager, detected on Saturday during a routine examination.
After the diagnosis, health authorities launched a large-scale testing campaign that aims to reach 4.7 million people.
China does not include asymptomatic infected people in official statistics until they show symptoms of the disease.
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8h47 – AstraZeneca vaccine reveals robust immunity in people over 65
The vaccine being developed by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the pharmaceutical company AstraZenaca produces robust immunity in people over 65, the Financial Times newspaper reported.
The vaccine produces protective antibodies and T cells in older age groups.
In July, a clinical trial involving more than 1,000 people revealed that the vaccine was also effective in people between 18 and 55 years old.
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8:30 am – Venezuela has successfully tested a molecule that cancels the new coronavirus
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced Sunday that the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Investigations (IVIC) has successfully tested a molecule, DR10, which “cancels 100%” the new coronavirus.
“The IVIC tested a molecule used to treat hepatitis C to treat covid-19. This study lasted six months, resulting in the annihilation of 100% of the virus. Venezuela obtained a drug that 100% cancels the coronavirus, “he told Venezuelan state television.
According to Nicolás Maduro, the “study was certified, with all the necessary tests” and in the coming days Venezuela “will proceed (…) through the World Health Organization, to ratify (ratify) the results obtained”.
The President of Venezuela also explained that it is the DR10 molecule, which has been totally isolated and “has no toxicity that affects healthy molecules” or causes side effects.
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8:20 am – Russia records new record of cases
Russian authorities reported an additional 17,374 new cases of Covid-19 infection, a new daily record. One third of the new cases, 5,224, were registered in Moscow.
In the last 24 hours, another 219 deaths were recorded.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has already registered 1,531,224 infected and 26,269 deaths.
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8:10 am – India with 480 dead and 45,148 cases in the last 24 hours
India has recorded 480 deaths and 45,148 infected with covid-19 in the past 24 hours, according to data released today by the Indian Ministry of Health.
Since the pandemic arrived in the country, India has diagnosed more than 7.9 million infections (7,909,959), which have caused 119,014 deaths.
Despite a gradual reduction in the daily number of cases in recent weeks, India continues to be the second country in the world with the most infections, after the United States, currently with more than 8.6 million cases.
The Indian capital has even seen an increase in the number of cases, with almost 4,000 new infections in the last 24 hours, the highest daily balance for the past five weeks.
Hindu festivals and air pollution caused by traffic and agricultural fires are also of concern to health workers, who fear an increase in the number of cases.
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7:50 am – Germany reports 8,685 new infections in the last 24 hours
Germany registered 8,685 new infections with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, a number well below Saturday’s balance (11,176), because not all federal states report the data over the weekend.
However, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) of virology had already pointed out that on Saturday the number of new positives had skyrocketed by including several cases recorded on Thursday, due to a technical problem on the server, which led to the data being communicated late and did not enter the Friday count.
The number of new infections recorded today is double the 4,325 new cases recorded on Monday of last week.–
7:30 am – State of Victoria, Australia, raises confinement
The Australian state of Victoria, the epicenter of the second wave of covid-19 in Australia, today announced the lifting of the confinement as of Tuesday, after not having registered any new cases in the last 24 hours.
Shops, restaurants and cafes in Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria and the country’s second most populous city, will reopen at midnight on Tuesday, and residents will be allowed to move again, local officials announced today.
“We can say that now is the time to open up,” said Victoria Andrews, head of government, visibly moved, at a press conference in Melbourne, recalling that the last time the state had zero infections was on June 9.
Confinement was enacted in July, when the number of new cases was about 190 per day, a figure that rose to 700 in August.
Santarém Hospital will postpone scheduled surgeries
The maternity emergency room will be closed until midnight. The measures were taken after an anesthetist tested positive for Covid. Six members of the team are in isolation and awaiting results of the screening tests.
Pregnant women are being sent to the hospitals of Abrantes and Vila Franca de Xira.