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Author: Xie Yuanzhang
2020-12-11 21:13
Last update date: 2020-12-11 21:16
The UK is the first country in the world to vaccinate citizens against the new crown pneumonia on a large scale. The global focus has changed from how to do better in epidemic prevention to where people can take the lead in getting the new crown vaccine.
The Hong Kong government announced today (11th) that it has ordered vaccines with two vaccine manufacturers. The first batch of 1 million doses of vaccines will arrive in Hong Kong as soon as next month. Previously, the Hong Kong government has been behind in the procurement of vaccines.
Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor announced today that there has been a breakthrough in the procurement of vaccines. Will Hong Kong win back the competition in the Asia-Pacific region for vaccination?
The picture shows the design picture of Pfizer's new crown vaccine.
(Reuters)
Singapore adopts new RNA vaccine to ship in the first quarter of next year
Vaccines developed in many countries around the world have entered the third stage one after another. Local governments have also rushed to purchase vaccines and have vaccination schedules.
In Singapore, which originally established the "tourism bubble" with Hong Kong, its Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS Medical School) and the American pharmaceutical company Arcturus Therapeutics jointly developed the vaccine ARCT-021. This vaccine is an RNA nucleic acid vaccine and can be used alone. Injection or multiple doses.
The vaccine began clinical trials in July this year, and none of the volunteers had serious side effects. The vaccine is expected to enter the third phase of clinical trials and be shipped as soon as the first quarter of next year.
Taiwan: People will not be vaccinated earlier than March next year
As for Taiwan, which has excellent control over the epidemic, only sporadic imported cases have been imported recently.
Its Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shizhongjin said that the results of vaccine research in various countries are better than expected, and it is expected that the supply and production will be faster than expected, but the people in Taiwan will not be vaccinated earlier than March next year.
Taiwan has stated earlier that it has passed the "New Coronary Pneumonia Vaccine Implementation Plan" (COVAX) led by the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization and the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as direct contact with pharmaceutical manufacturers, hoping to obtain about 15 million doses of vaccines, and plans to An additional 15 million doses were purchased, enough to cover the entire population of more than 20 million in Taiwan.
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Macau: Emergency vaccines will be in place at the end of this year as soon as possible
In addition, in Macau, which is also well controlled, the Department of Social and Cultural Affairs, Ouyang Yu, revealed on the 2nd of this month that emergency vaccines will be available at the end of this year as soon as this year. Priority will be given to providing risky frontline personnel for vaccination. The 1.4 million doses of vaccines that are under negotiation It is expected to be in place in the first half of next year and will be used by people who work and study outside.
Some experts estimate that there are two sources of emergency vaccines in Macau, namely the Mainland or Pfizer/BioNTech. However, because the latter requires special refrigeration equipment, the possibility of emergency vaccines in the Mainland is relatively high. Later, the introduction of emergency vaccines can be considered.
Japan: Goal to vaccinate people across the country in the middle of next year
The Japanese government has signed contracts with three pharmaceutical companies, namely Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna, to order a total of 290 million doses of vaccines, enough to give each of the country's 145 million people two injections.
In addition, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare announced yesterday (10th) that the government will purchase 10,500 deep-freeze refrigerators to store part of the new crown disease song that needs to be refrigerated at -70 degrees.
The province said earlier that it plans to allow all Japanese people to be vaccinated against the new crown pneumonia by the end of June next year.
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