The sixth wave of the coronavirus continues to expand in Spain with infections and hospital pressure growing in a generalized way throughout the country, despite the fact that “almost 90%” of the target population is already vaccinated, according to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez.
The increase in cases has prompted regional governments to continue to take action in the face of the sixth wave. The last of them has been the Canary Islands, which as of December 10 You can request the voluntary COVID passport to access certain spaces for public use.
In addition, the autonomous communities They have accelerated the vaccination of the laggards and of the third doses before the advance of the omicron variant. This weekend the queues have been repeated at the “vaccination ranks” such as the one at the City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia.
All over the world, there are 5.2 million deaths from COVID-19 and more than 265 million people infected. The United States is the country with the highest death toll, with more than 785,000 deaths; followed by Brazil, above 615,000; and India with more than 470,000 dead. The expansion of the omicron variant, although it is being claimed that the symptoms of the vaccinated infected are mild.
France has closed nightclubs for a month and he has asked companies to promote teleworking to try to stop the increase in cases, and other countries are applying restrictions or forcing people to be vaccinated.
We tell you the last hour of the pandemic minute by minute:
Miguel Charte
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08:37
“Our vaccine is made of recombinant protein, which offers better logistics, with a cold chain between 2 and 8 degrees, as well as its broad spectrum of protection against variants”, says Fabrega.
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08:36
Carles Fábrega, director of the Human Health Division of HIPRA, assures in RNE that the “adverse effects were minimal” in the first phase of trials of the Spanish vaccine. “In Phase 2 B we are testing a booster dose, it must be verified that it strengthens immunity, and its safety.”
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08:31
Advances in drugs. The British pharmaceutical GSK assures that, in the first studies, its antiviral therapy is effective against all the mutations of the new omicron variant.
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08:21
Infections in India fall to the lows of May 2020 with 23 cases of omicron. India reports 6,822 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, a minimum since May 2020 that continues with the downward trend in infections in recent weeks, amid concerns about the 23 cases detected so far of the omicron variant.
This country of about 1,210 million inhabitants registered in the last 24 hours the lowest number of infections in 558 days, according to the Indian Ministry of Health, raising the total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic to 34.6 million.
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08:13
On China, the National Health Commission has detected 94 new positives this Monday, 60 of them due to local infection in the provinces of Inner Mongolia (north, 55), Heilongjiang (northeast, 2), Yunnan (south, 2) and Zhejiang (east, 1).
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08:11
Health defines today the strategy for vaccination of the population between 5 and 11 years, since Spain will receive the first shipment of 1.3 million childhood vaccines on December 13, while analyzing the progress of the omicron variant in Spain and announcing the incidence of the first days of the holiday bridge.
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07:52
The sixth wave of the coronavirus continues to expand in Spain with infections and hospital pressure growing in a generalized way throughout the country, despite the fact that “almost 90%” of the target population is already vaccinated, according to the President of the Government. , Pedro Sánchez.
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07:51
Good Morning. We begin one more day the informative story of all the news about the new coronavirus, SARS-COV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19.
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