US Manages First Vaccine Dose To Over 100 Million – As It Happened | World news

“Do not go to other sources, they are not reliable,” says Morrison. This is perhaps the closest thing to parliamentary (and former party) colleagues sharing misinformation about the pandemic. The Department of Health recently launched a new website to combat misinformation about Covid and vaccines.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly address the media.

The NSW hotel worker who tested positive had received the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination, but there is a delay between vaccination and developed immunity, Kelly says. It’s the first community-acquired case in 55 days.

Morrison also defends the government against criticism that vaccine rollouts are not going according to plan. He says Australians believe the government has been transparent and that Australia is “leading the world out of this pandemic.”

Hi this is Helen Davidson in Taipei, here to peruse the blog for the next few hours. Thanks to Clea for everything so far.

Hong Kong is facing its fifth wave of infection, with a growing cluster around a high-end gym registering 99 cases to date. The gym is popular with workers in the city’s central business district, local media reports, and several major banks and law firms are among dozens of companies that have been awarded mandatory testing assignments. Authorities have also sealed off four residential buildings in the Mid-levels, in another ambush-style operation to ensure that all residents are tested at night before they can move freely again.

From Bloomberg’s senior health care editor as the United States reports a record number of vaccine doses (more than 4.5 million) administered daily:

The CDC said 68,884,011 people had received at least one dose, while 36,929,777 people had been fully vaccinated.

Brazil has recorded a further 1,997 deaths and 76,178 new cases of Covid-19, the country’s Ministry of Health said.

The country, which is suffering from the second deadliest outbreak in the world after the United States, has recorded a total of 277,102 deaths and 11,439,558 cases, according to Reuters.

Authorities in the United States have administered an initial vaccination dose to more than 100 million people, reaching the milestone Friday, according to the country’s national public health organization.

More than a third of this number has received both injections.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said more than 101 million injections had been administered since the country’s vaccination began late last year.

In total, 10.5% of the U.S. population (more than 35 million people) has had both doses, the CDC said.

Covid-19 infection levels in the higher Tokyo According to Health Minister Norihisa Tamura, the acreage appears to be increasing, and it threatens to jeopardize the lifting of the state of emergency scheduled for March 21.

New cases “no longer fall or are getting higher in Tokyo”, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures, Tamura told a news conference, the Japan Times reports.

While coronavirus measures, including restrictions on the hospitality industry, have reduced the number of cases to about one-tenth of the peak recorded in early January, levels are still a long way from targets.

“The number of new positive cases has stopped declining, and we need to be very vigilant about the possibility of a resurgence due to mutated tribes,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said Friday.

The seven-day average of new infections in Tokyo has been hovering in the mid to high of 200 since late February, while the daily number of new cases exceeded 300 for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday.

ArgentinaThe government is concerned about the increase in Covid-19 cases in the region and will step up border controls and preventive measures, the country’s health minister said.

“There has been a continuing and worrying increase in countries across the region,” said Carla Vizzotti, adding that the government was concerned about new variants of the virus circulating, according to a report in the Buenos Aires Times.

Vizzotti said the government advised Argentinians not to travel to countries like Brazil with new variants of the virus.

The government will issue warnings “about the regional situation and discourage the population from traveling to places where new variants exist”.

AustraliaThe center-left Labor party has been re-elected in the state Western Australia after implementing some of the country’s strictest measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

“The magnitude of what happened today has not escaped me. That comes with great responsibility, ”Prime Minister Mark McGowan told supporters in Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

The state vote was widely seen as a referendum on McGowan’s crackdown on dealing with the pandemic.

Thousands of people have gathered Montreal for a demonstration against Quebec’s coronavirus measures.