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Published Friday, December 4, 2020 Despite vaccine against covid-19
advances authorities urge vigilance By the A.M. Costa Rica staff On Thursday, the World Health Organization's European director, Hans Kluge, called Britain’s approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine “phenomenal” but urged Europeans to remain vigilant. Speaking at his headquarters in Copenhagen, Kluge said the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, along with 50 candidate vaccines currently in human trials, provide phenomenal promise. He said the vaccines, combined with other public health measures, can bring the end of an acute phase of the pandemic. While the rest of Europe awaits the vaccine, Kluge called on nations to have plans in place and take immediate stock of their preparedness. “This is a time for responsible leadership. To those countries seeing a decline in transmission: Use this time wisely,” he said. Considering the initial limited supply of vaccines that will be available, Kluge said WHO recommends health and social care workers, adults over 60 years of age and residents and staff of long-term care facilities should be prioritized. He said nations should be scaling up public health infrastructure and preparing for the next surge. He warned that the virus still has the potential to do enormous damage “unless we do everything in our power to stop its spread." Kluge said there have now been 19 million covid-19 cases and over 427,000 deaths reported in the WHO European Region, with over 4 million more cases in November alone. In Costa Rica, the Health Ministry provided on Thursday the most up-to-date statistics on the evolution of the virus in the country: • 1,165 new covid-19 cases, bringing the total to 49,324 active cases. • 20,006 foreign-born people have been infected with a total of 142,505 cases since March, approximately 14% of the total cases. Of these, authorities confirmed the death of 32 foreign-born patients. But since October, there is no updated information about foreign-born deaths due to covid-19. • 563 patients are being treated in public hospitals, where 212 patients are in ICU’s in delicate health conditions (ages range from 1 to 90-year-old). And 351 patients are in recovery rooms. Many of the remaining infected patients are quarantined in their homes. • 91,424 coronavirus patients have fully recovered, which is a 64.2% recovery rate of the total cases since March. • 404,440 medical covid-19 tests have been performed in Costa Rica since March, this according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering of Johns Hopkins University, • 1,757 deaths of people infected with covid-19, approximately 1.2% death rate of the total cases since March. Of these 664 women and 1,093 men. The ages range from a 9-year-old to a 101-year-old person. Readers can see the updated number of total patients in each district at the National Distance Education University on its Covid-19 Map.  According to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering, CSSE, at Johns Hopkins University, the pandemic has killed 1,514,695 people worldwide. -------------------------- Should health authorities increase the number of covid-19 diagnostics tests being performed? We would like to know your thoughts on this story. Send your comments to news@amcostarica.com
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