2021-01-19 15:05:58 GMT2021-01-19 23:05:58(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BRUSSELS, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) Belgium s Scientific Institute of Public Health Sciensano (Sciensano) reported Tuesday that 100,443 people have been vaccinated in the country by Jan. 17. This represents 35 percent of the target group of phase 1A, i.e. residents and caregivers in nursing homes, health care professionals in hospitals and front-line health workers, Dirk Ramaekers, head of the working group for the vaccination strategy, said Tuesday.
The next phase of the vaccination plan, namely phase 1B, will cover, as a priority, the vaccination of all citizens of 65 and over, and people with a chronic infection, said Ramaekers.
LISBON, Jan. 18 (Xinhua) The Portuguese government announced on Monday more restrictive measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. The new measures are aimed
PARIS, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) France registered 23,608 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, bringing its accumulative total since the outbreak of the epidemic to 2,938,333, data from the health authorities showed on Tuesday.
1:45 AM MYT VILNIUS, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) Leaders of Baltic countries urged European Union (EU) leaders to take immediate action to ensure speed and efficiency of the vaccination process, according to a press release of the Lithuanian presidential office on Tuesday. We must be ambitious at both EU and national levels to achieve collective immunity within the EU. Setting a clear deadline and a specific commitment would help speed up the vaccination process, said Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Prime Minister of Latvia Krisjanis Karins, and caretaker Prime Minister of Estonia Juri Ratas in their joint letter. They stressed that vaccination was the key tool for saving lives, easing quarantine restrictions and returning to sustainable economic growth.
1:55 AM MYT STOCKHOLM, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) Sweden s Public Health Agency said on Tuesday that 147,000 people, or 1.47 percent of the population, had been vaccinated against coronavirus in the country by last Sunday. Meanwhile, COVID-19 continues to spread in the country. The agency reported 9,779 new COVID-19 cases since last Friday, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to 533,265. The country has registered 268 new coronavirus-related deaths since Friday. The cumulative number of deaths now stands at 10,591 in Sweden. A total of 340 people are in intensive care. The Public Health Agency also said that 30 new cases of the new virus variant, recently discovered in Britain, were identified in Sweden last week, bringing the total number of such cases to 55. The cases were reported from different regions of the country and 16 of those infected people did not have a history of travel.