- The United States may soon approve Covid-19 booster injections.
- The UK will soon make a decision to vaccinate children between 12 and 15 years of age.
- The Sputnik V vaccine has been approved in Bahrain.
Authorities in Australia’s New South Wales state expect the number of daily infections to reach a peak next week because they hope to speed up vaccination, while neighbouring New Zealand will relax restrictions on all areas except Auckland, its largest city, starting at midnight on Tuesday.
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Europe
* The British Minister of Vaccines stated that after reports that vaccines may begin to be introduced in the next few days, a decision has not yet been made on whether healthy children between 12 and 15 years old should be vaccinated.
* For the eighth consecutive weekend on Saturday, thousands of people protested across France against the country’s Covid-19 health pass.
* On Sunday, 10 bulls chased hundreds of runners on the streets of Villaseca de la Sagra, Spain. This is the first bull festival held in Spain since the pandemic began.
Asia Pacific
* Nearly 500,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived in Australia overnight. This is Australia’s first exchange agreement with the United Kingdom to speed up its vaccination program.
* The founder of Taiwanese technology giant Foxconn said on Monday that Taiwan may receive up to 9 million doses of BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine this year.
* The Ministry of Health of Vietnam stated on Sunday that Ho Chi Minh City, the center of Vietnam’s coronavirus, and Hanoi, the capital, must vaccinate all adult residents with at least one shot by September 15.
America
* Brazil’s federal health regulator Anvisa said on Saturday that it has suspended the use of more than 12 million doses of vaccines developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, which were produced in unauthorized factories.
* The football World Cup qualifier between Argentina and Brazil was suspended on Sunday after Brazilian health authorities accused several Premier League players of violating the country’s quarantine regulations.
* Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday that Venezuela will receive the first batch of coronavirus vaccines obtained through Covax this week.
Middle East and Africa
* The Bahraini authorities have authorized the use of a booster dose of Sputnik V vaccine. This is the first time that a Russian vaccine has been approved for the third dose.
Medical development
* Israel will submit a large amount of data on the promotion of booster injections to the US Food and Drug Administration this month, and the agency is weighing the White House’s plans to start booster injections in the United States.
* Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top infectious disease expert in the United States, said that although Moderna’s booster injection may take longer, officials may soon obtain regulatory approval to manage the booster injection produced by Pfizer.
Economic impact
* Asian stocks edged higher on Monday as the disappointing US employment report promised to maintain ultra-loose policies for a longer period of time, but it also cast a shadow over the outlook for global growth and inflation.
* A Reuters survey shows that due to port congestion caused by new Covid-19 cases, China’s export growth is expected to slow in August, while the pace of imports also slows.
* As the lockdown spread from Sydney to Melbourne and Canberra, job advertisements in Australia declined in August, but the decline was small compared to the losses in the first phase of the 2020 pandemic.
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