2021-01-14 11:38:11 GMT2021-01-14 19:38:11(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) With more evidence suggesting their efficacy and safety, Chinese vaccines have been registered and used in more countries, especially those in the developing world.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received a COVID-19 vaccine shot developed by China s biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.
The country s Food and Drug Control Agency on Monday issued an emergency use authorization for the Chinese vaccine.
Also on Wednesday, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca received the Sinovac vaccine, shortly after the vaccine was granted emergency authorization in Turkey.
Turkey began mass vaccination on Thursday, starting with health workers, Koca told reporters.
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How Egypt’s authoritarianism is harming its Covid response The Egyptian government seems more interested in suppressing negative coverage and maintaining the illusion of control than tackling the country s healthcare crisis. A camera pans around a hospital ward, showing unmoving bodies atop hospital beds. They re all dead, says the man shooting the video, blaming a lack of medical oxygen. Nurses struggle to resuscitate a patient, and another crouches on the floor nearby in shock. The scene from Hussainiya hospital in Egypt s Sharqiyah province went viral, sparking fears that Egypt s strained healthcare system is struggling to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. It was quickly joined by other videos, such as one showing a woman screaming for help inside Zeftah hospital in Gharbiyah, and a bed-bound man in Damanhour, in Egypt s Nile Delta, who held an oxygen mask as he described supplies running out. Join us, minister, he wheezed, asking local health officials to come t
Egyptian hospitals run out of oxygen, killing COVID-19 patients in ICU wards
Video clips of the chaotic and tragic scenes in intensive care units (ICU) treating COVID-19 patients that ran out of oxygen supplies have provoked shock and outrage throughout Egypt.
On Saturday, video shot by a distressed visitor at the Zefta general hospital in the Gharbiya governorate, north east of the capital Cairo, captured the terrible scene in a ward where the oxygen had run out. It showed a woman running up and down the aisles shouting, “I will expose you everywhere… You filthy government!”, and filming rooms showing patients struggling on their beds and members of the medical team collapsed on the floor.
With surging new cases and strict restrictions back in place, the global fight against COVID-19 has grown tougher after the Christmas and New Year holidays.
As of Tuesday, global cases have reached 85,653,549 with over 1.8 million deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.
DIFFERENT HOLIDAYS
The Christmas and New Year holidays, a time of family reunions, travel and shopping, have been overshadowed by a sustained record-breaking COVID-19 surge.
COVID-19 infections in the United States hit a new grim milestone of 20 million on New Year s Day, an increase of 10 million cases in less than two months.
The CBSLA news channel reported that hospitals across the Los Angeles and other counties in Southern California had been stretched to their limits, as the county s seven-day daily positivity rate increased from 18.2 percent on Christmas Day to 21.5 percent on New Year s Day.
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