The US administers the first dose of vaccine over 100 m – as it happened World news

“Don’t go to other sources, they’re not reliable,” says Morrison. He is probably closest to fellow parliamentarians (and former party members) who share misinformation about the pandemic. The Department of Health recently launched a new website to counter misinformation about Covid and vaccines.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly are addressing the media.

The NSW hotel worker who tested positive received the first dose of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination, but there is a time lag between vaccination and developed immunity, says Kelly. It is the first case acquired by the state community in 55 days.

Morrison is also defending the government against criticism that the launch of its vaccines is not going according to plan. He says Australians believe the government has been transparent and that Australia is “leading the world out of this pandemic”.

Hi, this is it Helen Davidson in Taipei, here to take the blog in the next few hours. Thanks to Clea for everything she’s done so far.

Hong Kong is facing its fifth wave of infection, with a growing cluster centered around a state-of-the-art gym recording 99 cases so far. The gym is popular with workers in the city’s central business district, local media reported, and several major banks and law firms are among dozens of companies that have been ordered to take mandatory tests. Authorities also blocked four mid-rise residential buildings in another ambush-style operation to ensure all residents are tested overnight before being allowed to move freely again.

From the senior healthcare editor Bloomberg, the United States reports a record daily number (more than 4.5 million) of vaccine doses given:

The CDC said 68,884,011 people received at least one dose, while 36,929,777 people were completely vaccinated.

Brazil recorded another 1,997 deaths and 76,178 new cases of Covid-19, the country’s health ministry said.

The country, which suffered the second deadliest outbreak in the world after United States, recorded a total of 277,102 deaths and 11,439,558 cases, according to Reuters.

The authorities in United States they administered a first dose of the vaccine to more than 100 million people, according to the country’s national public health agency, which reached the stage on Friday.

More than a third of this number received both blows.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said more than 101 million shots had been fired since the country’s vaccination began late last year.

In total, 10.5% of the US population (over 35 million people) had both doses, the CDC said.

Covid-19 infection levels in the highest Tokyo the area appears to be growing, Health Minister Norihisa Tamura said, threatening to jeopardize the lifting of the March 21 emergency.

New cases “stopped falling or rose in Tokyo” Saitama, Chiba and Kanagawa Prefectures, Tamura said in a press briefing, reports Japan Times.

Although coronavirus measures, including restrictions on the hospitality industry, have reduced cases to about a tenth of the peak recorded in early January, levels are still far from target figures.

“The number of new positive cases has stopped declining and we need to be very vigilant about the possibility of a recurrence due to mutant strains,” Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike said on Friday.

Tokyo’s seven-day average of new infections ranged from 200 to 200 at the end of February, while the daily number of new cases exceeded 300 for the fourth day in a row on Saturday.

ArgentineThe government is concerned about the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in the region and will increase border controls and preventive measures, the country’s health minister said.

“There is sustained and worrying growth in countries across the region,” Carla Vizzotti said, adding that the government is concerned about new variants of the virus in circulation, according to a report in the Buenos Aires Times.

Vizzotti said the government is advising Argentines to avoid traveling to countries such as Brazil with new variants of the virus.

The government will start issuing warnings “about the regional situation and discourage the population from traveling to places where there are new options.”

AustraliaThe center-left Labor Party has been re-elected in the state Western Australia after implementing some of the country’s strictest measures to slow the spread of coronavirus.

“The magnitude of what happened today is not lost on me. With that comes great responsibility, “Prime Minister Mark McGowan told supporters in Perth, the capital of Western Australia.

The state vote was widely seen in a referendum on McGowan’s tough approach to the pandemic.

Thousands of people gathered Montreal for a demonstration against Quebec coronavirus measures.