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2020-12-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
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COVID vaccine roll-out: Germany, Lebanon, Israel, China
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Germany says vaccinations to start in early Jan.
[AlAhram] Infection figures in Germany have more or less stabilized at a high level since a partial shutdown started on Nov. 2 but haven't decreased.
European Union authorities are expected to make a decision by Dec. 29 on approving the first vaccine for use. Germany is getting special vaccination centers ready. The news comes as Britain gears up to start coronavirus vaccinations on Tuesday.
Infection figures in Germany have more or less stabilized at a high level since a partial shutdown started on Nov. 2 but haven't decreased. On Monday, the national disease control center reported 12,332 new cases over the past 24 hours, compared with 11,168 a week ago, and 147 new deaths.
Restrictions such as the closure of restaurants, bars, sports and leisure facilities are due to last until at least Jan. 10 and some regions are taking or contemplating tougher measures. Braun said tighter restrictions are needed ``at least in the hot spots.''
Hassan: Two Million COVID-19 Vaccines Reserved for Lebanon
[AnNahar] Caretaker Hamad Hassan told Independent Arabia on Monday that Lebanon has booked around 2m Pfizer vaccines that will be given to around 30 percent of the Lebanese population.
“Lebanon booked with American Pfizer company around 2 million vaccines to be distributed free of charge to segments of the society as targeted in a plan placed by the company and the Lebanese ministerial committee,” tasked with monitoring the virus, said Hassan.
The Minister said the agreement would provide vaccines for 30 percent of the Lebanese population.
Hassan said the National Committee for Corona Vaccine Management was formed two weeks ago. A calendar to determine the distribution of the vaccine to target groups, especially the most vulnerable to the epidemic, such as health workers and the elderly, was set.
First shipment of Pfizer vaccines expected to arrive in the coming days
[Jpost] Israel has purchased eight million doses of the Pfizer vaccine – enough to vaccinate four million people.
The first shipment of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines is expected to arrive in Israel in the coming days, the Health Ministry has confirmed, although the exact day of delivery is still unclear.
According to sources in the know, the first shipment is expected to include 110,000 doses.
Last week, Health Ministry director-general Chezy Levy said during a video meeting with the country’s hospital administrators that some four million doses could arrive before the end of the month. He said that although they could come even before they are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, no one will be inoculated before approval.
The FDA advisory panel is set to review the Pfizer vaccine on December 10.
China prepares large-scale rollout of coronavirus vaccines
[AyPee] Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4 billion people.
Developers are speeding up final testing, the Chinese foreign minister said during a U.N. meeting last week, as Britain approved emergency use of Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine candidate and providers scrambled to set up distribution.
Even without final approval, more than 1 million health care workers and others in China who are deemed at high risk of infection have received experimental vaccines under emergency use permission. Developers have yet to disclose how effective their vaccines are and possible side effects.
China’s fledgling pharmaceutical industry has at least five vaccines from four producers being tested in more than a dozen countries including Russia, Egypt and Mexico. Health experts say even if they are successful, the certification process for the United States, Europe, Japan and other developed countries might be too complex for them to be used there. However, China said it will ensure the products are affordable for developing countries and has been actively pursuing deals across the world.
On Sunday, 1.2 million doses of the Chinese company Sinovac’s vaccine arrived in Indonesia, the government said.
Within China, so far only one developer, China National Pharmaceutical Group, known as Sinopharm, said in November it applied for final market approval for use of its vaccine. Others have been approved for emergency use on people deemed at high risk of infection. 
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