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| Israeli medical workers are getting the Pfizer vaccine on the 21st of last month. ©AFP=News 1 |
Countries that were leading the way in vaccination against the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) are stepping forward in deregulation, such as easing business restrictions and promoting tourism resumption.
According to the Reuters news agency on the 15th (local time), about 43% of the population was vaccinated in Israel, easing restrictions on operations in supermarkets, markets, bookstores, art galleries, etc. .
Those who have already obtained immunity by getting a vaccine or curing after infection can use leisure facilities such as hotels and health clubs by receiving a’Green Pass’ provided by the Ministry of Health as an application from the 23rd.
It is also trying to normalize tourism. Israel has signed an agreement with Greece and Cyprus to allow people with “vaccination certificates” to travel between the two countries.
Israel started vaccinating Pfizer on December 19 last year, and about 3.87 million people, 43% of the 9 million people, received the vaccine at least once.
The goal is to further ease the containment measures by completing the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine by 30% of the population this month and 50% next month.
The UK, which has surpassed 15 million vaccinations and recorded a 25% vaccination rate, will also announce a roadmap for deregulation on the 22nd.
Prime Minister Borison Johnson is aiming to attend school on the 8th of next month, and is considering ways to gradually ease restrictions on daily life such as private meetings, shopping, and work, Bloomberg News reported.
The UK received the Pfizer vaccine for the first time in the world on December 8 last year, and an additional AstraZeneca vaccine earlier this year.
According to the British government on the 14th, the number of people who completed the first vaccination in the UK was 15,330,000,151, and the number of those who completed the second vaccination was 53,9630.
In particular, vaccinations were completed in four priority vaccination groups: 70 years of age or older, nursing home residents, medical workers, and medical vulnerable groups.
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| On December 8 (local time) last year, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan is receiving the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German Bioentech at Coventry University Hospital. © AFP=News1 © News1 Reporter Dongmyeong Woo |
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is also rapidly accelerating vaccination to open up its economy.
According to’Our World In Data’, a statistical site operated by Oxford University, the UAE has exceeded 5.8 million doses of vaccination as of 14 days.
Previously, Pfizer vaccination was given from December 23rd last year, and at the end of January, the vaccines for Sinopam in China and Sputnik V in Russia were also administered.
Bloomberg News said on the 11th that the UAE aims to vaccinate half the population by the end of next month, which is the second highest rate after Israel.
“Dubai has reopened its economy by launching large-scale vaccinations, while other wealthy countries tightened regulations on Corona 19 this winter.”
The US, which has hurried to introduce the corona vaccine, has passed its peak and is entering a downward phase.
The US has maintained a downward stability after peaking at 300,000,282 new cases on the 2nd of last month.
According to Johns Hopkins University, the number of new confirmed cases in the United States recorded 9,6609 on the 7th, reaching less than 100,000 for the first time in 101 days since November 3 of last year.
The Washington Post (WP) cited vaccination as one of the reasons for the downtrend.
In recent weeks, 1.62 million people have been vaccinated a day, which exceeds President Joe Biden’s goal of vaccinating 1.5 million people a day.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 528,4356 people, or about 16% of the U.S. population, received the vaccine as of 14 days, of which 38,2822.7 million were the first vaccination, and 1407,74.4 million were the second vaccination. .
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| U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is publicly receiving a second dose of Pfizer-Bioentech’s Corona 19 vaccine at a hospital in Newark, Delaware on the 11th of last month (local time). © AFP=News1 © News1 Reporter Dongmyeong Woo |
It turned out that the number of corona19 vaccinations around the world significantly exceeded the total cumulative number of confirmed cases.
According to Bloomberg News’ Corona 19 Vaccine Tracker, about 176,5484,428 doses of Corona 19 vaccine were vaccinated around the world as of the 15th (local time), and the global cumulative number of confirmed cases around the world based on World Omometers was 109.67 million,473. Far beyond.
The number of confirmed cases worldwide has also dropped to the 400,000 range, half of the highest recorded on January 8 (84,4595).