BRUSSELS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) The COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University was authorized for use by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), the drug regulator of the European Union (EU), on Friday. The EMA said it had assessed the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine and recommended that a formal conditional marketing authorization be granted by the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU. With this third positive opinion, we have further expanded the arsenal of vaccines available to EU and EEA (European Economic Area) member states to combat the pandemic and protect their citizens, Emer Cooke, executive director of the EMA, said in a statement.
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BRUSSELS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) Belgium has registered a total of 702,437 COVID-19 infections since the pandemic outbreak, according to figures released Friday by the public health institute Sciensano.
In the week of Jan. 19-25, an average of 2,210 new infections were registered per day, an increase of 12 percent on a weekly basis, showed Sciensano data.
In the week of Jan. 22-28, Sciensano reported an average of 125 new admissions per day. Currently, 1,817 patients are hospitalized, 323 of them in intensive care.
To date, Belgium has recorded 20,982 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
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BRUSSELS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) The number of new coronavirus cases has more than doubled among children under the age of 10 in one week in Belgium, Yves Van Laethem, inter-federal COVID-19 spokesman, said here on Friday. The actual rate of increase was 128 percent. The increase in contaminations among teenagers was 41 percent, he said. Currently in Belgium, three-quarters of the new cases detected are linked to children or teenagers, he said. The increase is due to the scale of screening campaigns focusing on clusters within schools. Twenty-one percent of COVID-19 transmissions occurred in schools, one-third in retirement homes and a quarter (26 percent) in companies, Van Laethem said.
PARIS, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, France has lost 75,620 people to the virus, the seventh highest death toll in the world, with 820 new deaths recorded in the past 24 hours alone, the country s health authority said on Friday. The latter figure included 355 deaths of respiratory origin reported in hospitals and 465 COVID-19-related fatalities in care homes and other social care institutions. The country registered 22,858 new infections in one day, taking the caseload to 3,153,487. The number of patients hospitalized went up by 142 to 27,308, with the number of those in intensive care increasing by 19 to 3,130. As the virus continues to circulate faster than expected, the French government is considering introducing stricter coronavirus measures in the coming days to stem an alarming rise in cases of the new COVID-19 variants, Health Minister Olivier Veran said on Thursday.