Russia reports 7,113 new coronavirus cases in past 24 hours raising national tally to 623,994
Russia reports 7,113 new coronavirus cases in past 24 raising national tally to 623,994. Another 92 people died overnight, bringing death toll to 8,605
Corona virus cases worldwide is expected to hit the grim milestone of 10 million next week, said the World Health Organization, as it warned the virus was yet to peak in the Americas.
The warning was issued as many countries such as India, the US, Brazil, among others, ave been reporting record high daily spike in number of positive cases.
The WHO also expressed concern over the sudden increase of 25-50 per cent cases in a week in the Latin American countries. The experts have predicted that the death toll in Latin America is expected to skyrocket to 390,000 by October.
WHO SAID AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine IS the world’s leading and most advanced
AstraZeneca’s experimental Covid-19 vaccine is probably the world’s leading candidate and most advanced in terms of development, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) chief scientist said on Friday.
COVID-19 vaccine candidate is probably the world's leading candidate and most advanced in terms of development, the World Health Organization's chief scientist said on Friday.
Soumya Swaminathan said that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine candidate was also "not far behind Astrazeneca's among more than 200 candidates 15 of which have entered clinical trials.
The WHO is in talks with multiple Chinese manufacturers including Sinovac on potential vaccines, she said.
We do know that Moderna’s vaccine is also going to go into phase three clinical trials, probably from the middle of July, and so that vaccine candidate is not far behind, she said.
But I think AstraZeneca certainly has a more global scope at the moment in terms of where they are doing and planning their vaccine trials.”
The WHO is in talks with multiple Chinese manufacturers, including Sinovac, on potential vaccines, as well as with Indian researchers, Swaminathan said.
She called for drugmakers to consider collaborating on Covid-19 vaccine trials, similar to the WHO’s ongoing Solidarity trial for drugs.
A WHO led coalition fighting the pandemic on Friday asked government and private sector donors to help raise $31.3 billion in the next 12 months to develop and deliver tests, treatments and vaccines for the disease.
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Lightning strikes killed at least 117 people in Indian state bihar
Lightning strikes killed at least 117 people in India's eastern Bihar state and in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, according to local authorities
In the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, 24 people died due to lightning in the past 24 hours, according to senior Uttar Pradesh State Disaster Management Authority official Aditi Umrao.
In the neighboring Indian state of Bihar, at least 83 people were killed in lightning strikes on Thursday, according to the state government.In total, at least 107 people have died from lightning strikes in the two states.
Bihar's Disaster Management Department said the Gopalganj district saw the highest death toll, with 13 people killed. The rest of the deaths were recorded in 22 separate areas across the state.
All the deaths in Bihar were recorded Thursday. Compensation of $5,300 will be given to the families who have lost loved ones, said Sandeep Kumar, an official at Bihar's Disaster Management Department
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