Global Epidemic Situation "December 28th": The number of confirmed cases exceeded 80.89 million. China completed the national seroepidemiological survey of new coronary pneumonia

Financial Associated Press (Shanghai, editor Shi Zhengcheng), as of 23:25 on December 28, Beijing time, the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia worldwide rose to 80,895,693, including 1,670,043 deaths.

Many European countries are still in the most serious stage of prevention and control. As of press time, France (2616510 cases), Spain (1854951 cases), the United Kingdom (2295273 cases), Italy (2047696 cases), and Germany (1664897 cases) are still in the peak range of single-day confirmed cases.

The epidemic situation in the United States (19,136,761 cases) continued to deteriorate, and the number of new cases in a single day remained at the peak level.

(Global Epidemic Overview, Source: Johns Hopkins University )

In addition, India (10207871 cases), Brazil (7484285 cases), Russia (3047335 cases), Argentina (1583297 cases), Colombia (1594497 cases) is a major economy with a significant increase in cases.

The following is the growth curve of daily confirmed cases in relevant countries:

(Source: Associated Press, Wind)

Global epidemic situation

[National Seroepidemiological Survey of New Coronary Pneumonia Completed: The population is at a low level of infection]

Recently, The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention organized and completed the national seroepidemiological survey and analysis of new coronary pneumonia. The survey results show that the population of our country is generally at a low level of infection, indicating that the epidemic control with Wuhan as the main battlefield has been successful and effectively prevented the large-scale spread of the epidemic.

[Beijing Dongcheng: The whole district quickly enters an emergency state]

In the past few days, Dongcheng District has held consecutive epidemic prevention and control work leading group meetings to report the city's epidemic prevention and control situation. The meeting requested that the whole district quickly entered an emergency state. All units and departments immediately acted to adjust the epidemic prevention and control status to an emergency state, and combine normalized epidemic prevention and control with emergency prevention and control, and guard against it at all times to ensure that the situation is not out of control or clustered epidemics. The spread of the epidemic was stopped in time.

[Wuhan has started the emergency vaccination of the new crown vaccine, a total of 2 injections are required for the whole process]

At a press conference on December 28, He Zhenyu, deputy director of the Wuhan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced that Wuhan has launched the new crown on December 24 Emergency vaccination work for vaccines. In the city's 15 districts and 48 designated vaccination clinics, emergency vaccination of the new crown vaccine has begun for some key populations. The new coronavirus inactivated vaccine used in this emergency in Wuhan city requires a total of 2 shots of the whole course, and the interval between each shot is 4 weeks. The age range of this emergency vaccination is 18-59 years old.

[ Iran will buy one million doses of new crown vaccine from China]

Iranian Red Crescent Head Hemati pointed out on the 27th that sanctions have created obstacles to Iran’s vaccine procurement, but a breakthrough has been achieved. Hemmati said: “The Red Crescent will purchase one million doses of vaccine from China, and the remaining about 20 million doses will be provided by the Ministry of Health.” According to him, Pfizer will also provide another 150,000 to 200,000 doses of new crown vaccine.

[Japan’s first confirmed case of mutant virus infection in South Africa and stayed in South Africa]

Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare stated on the 28th that a woman who had stayed in South Africa was infected with the mutated new coronavirus. According to media reports, this is the first time that a South African mutant coronavirus case has been confirmed in Japan.

The Japanese government announced on the 26th that from 0:00 local time on the 28th to the end of January next year, new entry applications from all countries and regions will be suspended. Earlier, five passengers who arrived in Japan from the UK were tested to be infected with the local mutant new coronavirus

[German new crown vaccine cold chain storage is suspected to be illegal in many cities to suspend vaccination]

According to media reports, on the 27th local time, Germany started vaccination by The new crown vaccine developed by the German Biotech Company and the United States Pfizer Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. . However, it was discovered that the vaccine cooling temperature may not meet the regulations in parts of Bavaria, which caused several local cities to postpone vaccination.

[The number of American airlines hits a new high after the epidemic]

According to the latest data from the US Transportation Security Administration, the number of U.S. airlines on Sunday reached 1,284,500 local time, a new high after the outbreak in March, but still half of the same period last year. This figure also reflects that there are not as many Americans who comply with the anti-epidemic requirements during the holidays.

[French Minister of Health stated that "the third round of blockade is not ruled out"]

According to a report published by local media on Sunday, French Minister of Health Olivier Véran stated that the French government’s goal of epidemic control is to reduce the number of new diagnoses in a single day to less than 5,000 , The epidemic is currently being evaluated on an hourly basis, and measures to protect the population such as social blockade will not be ruled out for the time being.

Market performance

As Trump signed the epidemic relief policy and fiscal expenditure bill on Sunday, the European and American stock markets that have just ended the Christmas holiday collectively rose. The superimposed Anglo-European trade agreement is expected to pass smoothly this week, and the biggest uncertainties during the year have been implemented, which also has a positive effect on market sentiment.

(Monday European and American stock market trends, source: Investing)