( Reuters) – Worldwide COVID-19 cases hit 60 million on Wednesday, while millions of Americans took a trip for Thanksgiving, turning a blind eye to main warnings, record hospitalizations and a rising death toll.
DEATHS AND INFECTIONS
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– Eikon users, see COVID-19: MacroVitals here for a case tracker and summary of news.
EUROPE
– Germany reported a record 410 deaths over 24 hours prior to federal state leaders and Chancellor Angela Merkel were due to talk about an extension of pandemic-related limitations into December and for the Christmas and New Year holidays.
– Spain’s prime minister said his government was considering limiting Christmas events to events of 6 individuals.
AMERICAS
– The Americas reported more than 1.5 million cases in the last seven days, the highest weekly number given that the start of the pandemic, the WHO local branch PAHO stated.
– Panama’s federal government stated it has actually signed an arrangement with drug business Pfizer and BioNTech to buy 3 million COVID-19 vaccine dosages.
ASIA-PACIFIC
– Researchers led by the WHO would like to go back to a wholesale food market in Wuhan in China to follow up initial cases which emerged in the city and examine how the virus most likely first spread from bats.
– Tokyo will prompt much shorter working hours for bars and dining establishments and ask homeowners to stay indoors as much as possible.
– Singapore, which once had the greatest COVID-19 rate in Southeast Asia, said it was nearly virus-free.
MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
– Turkey, which announced asymptomatic case numbers for the first time given that July, has actually signed a contract to buy 50 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine from China’s Sinovac Biotech.
MEDICAL ADVANCEMENTS
– COVAXX, an unit of United Biomedical Inc, has received purchase commitments amounting to $2.8 billion to provide more than 140 million dosages of its potential vaccine to developing countries, consisting of Brazil, Peru and Ecuador.
– Dutch scientists are getting ready for a potential “human challenge” COVID-19 vaccine trial, advocacy group 1Day Sooner stated.
ECONOMIC IMPACT
– Stocks edged back from record highs on Wednesday as Wall Street bumped up versus underwhelming economic information, while oil continued to increase and the dollar compromised ahead of comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve.[MKTS/GLOB]
– The number of Americans filing newbie claims for out of work advantages increased even more last week, while a Labor Department report revealed that those getting welfare under pandemic programs set to end the day after Christmas continued to increase in early November.
– Britain will obtain almost 400 billion pounds this year to pay for the huge coronavirus hit to its economy, and stop briefly pay increases for public sector employees except those in the health service and on lower earnings, financing minister Rishi Sunak said.
Put Together by Devika Syamnath and Milla Nissi; Edited by Gareth Jones and Sriraj Kalluvila
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