Regarding immunity, global health is good news for Corona patients

1:30 PM

Sunday 22 November 2020

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Agencies

A senior official at the World Health Organization said that a British study concluded that those who contracted Covid-19 are not likely to be infected again for at least six months, and described the result as good news that also gives more hope for potential vaccines to prevent the disease.

“This is really good news … that we are seeing steady levels of immunity in humans so far … It also gives us hope with regard to vaccines,” Mike Ryan, WHO’s chief emergency expert, said at a news conference.

“We still need to follow these individuals for longer periods of time to see how long immunity lasts,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, who is leading the WHO’s technical efforts to combat Covid-19.

A Reuters statistic showed that more than 57.06 million people were infected with the emerging coronavirus worldwide, while the total deaths resulting from the virus reached 1 million 365,111 cases.

And HIV infections have been recorded in more than 210 countries and regions since the first cases were discovered in China in December 2019.

On Friday, the US Secretary of Health Alex Azar announced that Pfizer and Biontech had submitted an urgent license request for their emerging anti-corona virus vaccine in the United States, adding that the American company Moderna, which is also working to develop and distribute an anti-Corona vaccine on a large scale, has submitted a request on its part. Similar.

For her part, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the Union could give the green light to start circulation of the two vaccines “from the second half of December, if the necessary measures are taken without problems.”

The Pfizer / Biontech Alliance and Moderna said in recent days that their vaccines are 95% effective, which was enough to inspire optimism in the world as governments have already reserved their quotas of millions of doses.

The doctor, Anthony Fauci, who is highly regarded scientifically in the United States, confirmed, Thursday, that “the speed of the” vaccine development “did not undermine its safety, nor its scientific integrity.

It is noteworthy that the epidemic in the United States entered a phase of “steady acceleration”, with about 200,000 injuries and 1750 deaths recorded in the country within 24 hours, the day after 2,000 deaths were also reported, a threshold the country has not crossed for months.

Americans have been called on to refrain from traveling during the Thanksgiving holiday on November 26, an occasion when families gather in the United States and airports and roads are packed.

And local officials across the country imposed new restrictions in order to contain the spread of the virus.

On Friday, India crossed the nine million epidemic and officially recorded more than 132 deaths, but it is feared that these numbers will be slightly less than reality, due to the failure to report all cases and conduct relatively few checks.

On Friday, the World Health Organization recommended that remdesivir not be prescribed to hospitalized Covid-19 patients. She said that this expensive drug with many side effects does not prevent death or dangerous symptoms of Corona disease.

Meanwhile, the World Health Organization welcomed the decline in the number of daily infections in Europe during the past week by 10%, but deaths continue to rise and caution remains present.

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