US administers first dose of vaccine to more than 100 million – as it happened | World News

“Don’t look for other sources, they are not to be trusted,” says Morrison. This is perhaps the closest he has come to fellow parliamentarians (and former parties) who share misinformation about the pandemic. The health department recently launched a new website to combat misinformation about Covid and vaccines.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and health director Paul Kelly are speaking to the media.

The NSW hotel employee who tested positive received the first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination, but there is a time lag between vaccination and the development of immunity, says Kelly. It is the first case acquired by the state community in 55 days.

Morrison is also defending the government against criticism that the vaccine’s launch is not going according to plan. He is saying that Australians believe the government has been transparent, and Australia “is leading the world out of this pandemic”.

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Hong Kong is facing its fifth wave of infection, with a growing cluster centered around a state-of-the-art gym registering 99 cases so far. The academy is popular with workers in the city’s central business district, local media reported, and several major banks and law firms are among dozens of companies that have received mandatory test orders. The authorities also blocked four residential buildings at the intermediate levels in another ambush operation to ensure that all residents are tested overnight before being allowed to move freely again.

From Bloomberg’s senior health editor in the United States, he reports a record daily number (over 4.5 million) of vaccine doses administered:

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

Brazil recorded an additional 1,997 deaths and 76,178 new cases of Covid-19, the country’s health ministry said.

The country, which suffered the second most lethal outbreak in the world after the United States, recorded a total of 277,102 deaths and 11,439,558 cases, according to Reuters.

Authorities in United States administered a first dose of vaccine to more than 100 million people, according to the country’s national public health agency, reaching the milestone on Friday.

More than a third of that number received the two jabs.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said more than 101 million vaccines have been administered since the country’s vaccination campaign began last year.

In total, 10.5% of the US population (more than 35 million people) received both doses, said the CDC.

Covid-19 infection levels in most Tokyo The area appears to be growing, said health minister Norihisa Tamura, and threatens to jeopardize the lifting of the state of emergency scheduled for March 21.

New cases “stopped falling or increased in Tokyo”, Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa city ​​halls, Tamura said at a press conference, the Japan Times reports.

Although coronavirus measures, including restrictions for the hospitality industry, have reduced cases to about a tenth of the peak recorded in early January, the levels are still far from desired levels.

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

The seven-day average of new infections in Tokyo has fluctuated between mid and high of 200 since the end of February, while the daily number of new cases has exceeded 300 for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday.

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

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

Vizzotti said the government is advising Argentines to avoid trips to countries, such as Brazil, with new variants of the virus.

The government will begin issuing warnings “about the regional situation and discouraging the population from traveling to places where there are new variants”.

AustraliaThe center-left Labor Party was re-elected in the state of Western Australia after implementing some of the country’s most stringent measures to slow the spread of coronavirus.

“The magnitude of what happened today does not go unnoticed. That comes with a big responsibility, ”state premier Mark McGowan told supporters in Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

The state vote was widely seen as a referendum on McGowan’s harsh approach to fighting the pandemic.

Thousands of people gathered in Montreal for a demonstration against the Quebec coronavirus measures.