Coronavirus: update on the pandemic around the world – Orange news

AFP, published on Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 8:44 p.m.

New measures, new reports and highlights: an update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.

– Biden promises a new financial effort –

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday pledged from the United Nations platform to increase US international efforts to fight both the pandemic and climate change.

Washington will “announce additional commitments” to boost vaccination in the least developed countries on Wednesday, during a virtual summit it is organizing, said Joe Biden to the UN General Assembly.

– Bolsonaro: for vaccination but against a health passport –

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said from the forum of the United Nations General Assembly that he was in favor of vaccination against the coronavirus, but opposed to the principle of the health passport.

– Johnson & Johnson: evidence for a booster dose –

A booster dose increases the effectiveness of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine against Covid-19, according to new data from the company.

J & J’s remedy was originally designed as a single-dose vaccine. But with a second dose injected about two months (56 days) after the first, the antibody levels observed are multiplied “by four to six”, according to a statement from this American pharmaceutical company.

– Finland adopts vaccination passport –

The Finnish Parliament approved the creation of a “corona pass”, although its actual implementation in Finland remains uncertain due to the improvement in the health situation.

Scheduled to be implemented in early October, the project could be stillborn, with the Finnish executive hoping to lift restrictions in mid-October, when it hopes that 80% of the population over 12 will be vaccinated, up from 66 , 6% today.

– Venezuela: arrival of a million doses of the Sputnik V vaccine –

Venezuela has received a delivery of one million second doses of the Covid Sputnik V vaccine that it has been waiting for weeks, like many other Latin American countries having to wait due to the shortage of second doses of the Russian vaccine.

– Iran plans to buy two million doses of Pfizer vaccine –

Iran is considering purchasing two million doses of the US-German Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, said a senior health official in the country where the number of daily cases of contamination and deaths is relatively declining.

“A contract is being established with the Iranian Foreign Exchange Office for the import within one to two months of two million doses of Pfizer vaccine produced in Belgium,” said the chief executive officer of food and medicine.

– Rubber bullets in Melbourne –

Riot police in Melbourne, south-eastern Australia, used pepper spray and rubber bullets to break up a violent protest by opponents of compulsory vaccination for mostly construction workers construction sites having been abruptly closed in this city after the discovery within them of sources of contamination.

– The OECD revises its global growth forecast downwards –

The OECD slightly lowered its global growth forecast for 2021, citing a “very uneven recovery” depending on the levels of public support during the crisis and the level of vaccination against Covid in different countries.

– More than 4.69 million dead –

The pandemic caused by the new coronavirus has killed at least 4,696,559 people around the world since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP from official sources on Tuesday in the middle of the day.

The United States is the country with the most deaths (676,092), ahead of Brazil (590,955), India (445,385), Mexico (271,765) and Russia (199,808).

The WHO estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher.