Christmas and New Year’s holidays did not bring simplification, and only worsened the pandemic picture in the world as what epidemiologists were afraid. While vaccination slips almost everywhere. Israel where already more than one million persons were vaccinated is favourably allocated only. In Asia and Europe toughen the quarantine.
About it and other coronavirus news in the BBC review.
Israel is ahead of all on the planet
While the whole world collects the strength, Israel vaccinated already more than one million persons an absolute world record in recalculation per capita.
Israel sits already in the third national lockdown and expects to lift it soon at the expense of vaccination and as a whole to finish the epidemic in February.
Of 100 persons in Israel 11,5 inoculations are already made. Afterwards comes Bahrain (3,5) and Great Britain (1,5 shots for 100 persons).
The USA were going to vaccinate 20 million till the end of 2020, however , while less than 3 million could get vaccination there.
In the European Union things do not go very well as the vaccine there was approved more recently. In Germany the first dose was received by about 150 thousand persons, and in France and at all units all about hundred.
Not in the last instance because Frenchmen as a whole are sceptical: according to recent poll Ipsos in 15 countries, only 40 % of inhabitants of France are ready to inoculate, as compared with 80 % in China, 77 % in Great Britain and 69 % in the USA.
The closed schools and overcrowded hospitals in England
England was going to open on Monday all schools for the first classes after vacation, and then gradually to return and senior schoolboys. However, the explosive growth of number of the infected gave up as a bad job these plans.
The government while agreed to transform all schools into online mode in London, however trade unions of teachers demand to extend restrictions all over England. In other parts of Great Britain the Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland rules are established by local authorities.
Here four days on end number of the revealed coronavirus cases in Great Britain exceeds 50 thousand.
Hospitals are filled, and the authorities are going to set up temporary hospitals prepared still in the spring in case the national system of public health services would not cope with the flow of patients.
Asia enters new restrictions, India rehearses vaccination
Thailand is going already for these days off to toughen quarantine in 28 provinces in reply to the growth of number of infections.In Bangkok new restrictions are already introduced: local authorities have disposed to close all schools, sports halls, bars and massage salons for two weeks.
In capital shopping centres, beauty salons, pools and parks are still open but only under observance of measures social distancing and anti-virus hygiene.
Japan considers a new state of emergency.The state epidemiologists will discuss it after the addresses of three governors of the capital region disturbed by a new wave of the epidemic.
For now as a provisional measure Tokyo has demanded from restaurants and the karaoke to be closed at eight in the evenings, and all institutions where sell alcohol, at seven.
South Korea will extend rigid capital restrictions all over the country. Till January 17 it will be forbidden to Koreans to gather in groups of more than four persons.
The interdiction for the small meetings, introduced in Seoul before Christmas, is connected with the growth of number of infections in the country which has almost won the epidemic.
At such small meetings around 40 % of all new infected have caught the virus almost, confirm the authorities.An interdiction planned to remove on Sunday, but instead have extended it all over the country.
India in expectation of vaccine has decided to hold vaccination rehearsal. Ten thousand doctors and volunteers will take part in preparation for the large scale vaccination campaigns which should ensure vaccination of 300 million persons by the middle of the year.
And the latest statistics is about the situation in Russia. For last days 26 300 cases of infection were revealed, including 5450 in Moscow. 447 more persons died and the total number of victims of the pandemic, thus, has exceeded 58 000.