(Fighting New Crown Pneumonia) Japan will fully supply domestically produced new crown oral medicine Russian experts say there may be a new wave of infections
China News Agency, Beijing, November 25 Comprehensive news: According to WHO website data, as of 18:38 Central European Time 24 (1:38 Beijing 25), the number of new corona cases confirmed worldwide increased by 224,452 from the previous day, cases were 636,089,587, deaths increased by 512 to 6,604,704.
Asia: Japan will fully supply the new domestically produced corona oral drugs
According to a Kyodo News report on the 25th, Japanese Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare Katsunobu Kato said at a press conference that day that Shionogi Pharmaceutical Company’s new oral crown drug “XOCOVA”, previously urgently approved, it will be fully stocked by the 28th. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said medicines must be delivered to the population as soon as possible.
Japan’s Shionogi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. announced on the 24th that it has applied to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for approval for the production and sale of the new recombinant protein corona vaccine developed by the company, which is mainly for the first vaccination and booster vaccination of adults.
According to a report by South Korea’s Central Epidemic Prevention Headquarters on the 25th, as of 0:00 am that day, South Korea had 53,698 new confirmed cases compared to 0:00 am the previous day, with a total of 26,837,840 confirmed cases; 55 new deaths, with a total of 30,278 cases.
Singapore’s Health Minister Wang Yikang said on the 24th on his social media account that the government had started rolling out the fourth round of new rapid antigen detection (ART) instruments of the coronavirus. More than 1.5 million households can receive this detector one after another. Wang Yekang reminded the public to self-test, especially those who have recently entered the country. If you feel unwell, you should get tested in time.
Europe and America: Russian experts say there could be a new wave of infections
Russia added 5,784 confirmed cases and 58 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to a TASS news agency report on the 24th.
On the 25th, the TASS news agency quoted Vladimir Churanov, the leading infectious disease expert at the Russian Ministry of Health, as saying that the new BQ.1.1 subtype of the Omicron strain is more infectious than some previous subtypes, so Russia could a new wave of infections. The elderly and people with chronic diseases should be especially careful in autumn and winter.
According to a report by Reuters on the 24th local time, Marco Cavaleri, head of vaccine strategy at the European Medicines Agency, told a news conference that the recent booster vaccination rate of the new corona vaccine in the European Union is been “disappointing”. Among high-risk groups, on average only 29% have been revaccinated or boosted with the new corona vaccine.
Although the number of new confirmed cases in the EU has not increased significantly in recent weeks, Marco Cavaleri said the epidemic situation could change in the cold winter.
CNN reported on the 24th local time that Thanksgiving gatherings have led to an increase in people’s social activities, which has created more space for new variants of the new corona virus to spread. Therefore, after Thanksgiving, the number of new confirmed cases and the number of hospitalized cases in the United States will increase.
Helix, an American genetic testing company, has been monitoring the situation of the mutated strain of the new coronavirus. The company’s infectious disease experts said that according to the results of the Helix sample survey, the positive rate of the new corona test in the United States is increasing, and the positive rate of the positive rate of the test among young people aged between 18 and 24 years is the fastest growing. (End)
[Redattore responsabile: Wang Qin]
