Xinhua News Agency, Tbilisi, November 27th Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency reporters in Asia and Europe reported that the COVID-19 epidemic in some countries in Asia and Europe continued to spread rapidly, and the number of new cases reported by Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Georgia reached a new high on the 27th. In response to the epidemic, Russia announced that it would vaccinate COVID-19 vaccine on a large scale before the new year.
According to the Russian Epidemic Prevention Command on the 27th, in the past 24 hours, there were 27,543 confirmed cases in COVID-19, with a total of 2,215,533 cases. 38,558 cumulative deaths; A total of 1712174 cases were cured.
Peskov, Russian Presidential Press Secretary, said on 26th that Russian people will be vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccine on a large scale before the New Year. Sobyanin, mayor of Moscow, said on the same day that Moscow has completed preparations for mass vaccination, and has set up about 300 vaccination sites equipped with necessary medical staff and facilities. According to the Tass news agency reported on 26th, the second COVID-19 vaccine "EpiVacCorona" in Russia started the post-registration trial on the same day, and about 4,000 volunteers participated. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on October 14th that the vaccine was registered.
According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health on the 27th, in the past 24 hours, 16,218 new cases were diagnosed in Ukraine, with a total of 693,407 cases. 11,909 cumulative deaths; A total of 326,238 cases were cured.
Ukrainian National News Agency reported on the same day that Ukrainian President Zelensky has submitted to the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) for consideration the economic assistance plan for small and medium-sized enterprises. According to the plan, the government will provide 10 billion Grivner (US$ 28.5) in economic assistance to small and medium-sized enterprises and their employees, so as to reduce the losses caused by epidemic prevention measures and stabilize employment, covering more than 1 million people.
According to the data of COVID-19 epidemic released by the Ministry of Health of Belarus on the 27th, there were 1,621 newly confirmed cases in Belarus in the past 24 hours, with a total of 131,633 cases. Cumulative death was 1136 cases; A total of 110152 cases were cured.
On 27th, Belarusian President Lukashenko visited a hospital in Minsk where COVID-19 patients were treated. He said that the government is expected to allocate 800 million rubles (US$ 1 is about 2.57 rubles) before the end of this year to subsidize medical staff and buy new medical equipment.
According to the data released by the Georgian government’s website for preventing and controlling the COVID-19 epidemic on the 27th, 4,780 new cases were diagnosed in Georgia, with a total of 123,470 cases. A total of 1161 cases died and 102270 cases were cured. On the 26th, the Georgian government announced a series of measures to strengthen epidemic prevention, including that from November 28th to January 31st next year, citizens and vehicles are not allowed to go out without permission from 21: 00 to 5: 00 the next day, except for holidays such as the New Year.
As of the 27th, 129,213 cases have been diagnosed in Kazakhstan, 115,384 cases have been cured and 2,013 cases have died. According to Kazakh media reports on the 27th, at the request of President Tokayev, the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan announced a list of 58 drugs to limit the price of COVID-19 epidemic on the 26th, and the government will limit the retail price of these drugs on the basis of comprehensive consideration of manufacturer’s pricing, production, marketing and transportation costs.
Other Asian and European countries also updated the cumulative number of confirmed cases on the 27th: 12,044 cases in Tajikistan, 71,548 cases in Kyrgyzstan, 72,409 cases in Uzbekistan and 132,346 cases in Armenia. (Note holder: Li Ming; Participating reporters: Guan Jianwu, Zhang Xiao, Li Dongxu, Ren Jun, Cai Guodong, Wei Zhongjie, Li Jia)