{"id":106019,"date":"2021-02-01T16:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=106019"},"modified":"2021-02-01T16:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:43:16","slug":"factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; President Joe Biden will meet 10 moderate Republican senators on Monday to discuss their proposal to shrink his sweeping $1.9 trillion U.S. COVID-19 relief package, even as Democrats prepare to push legislation through Congress without Republican support.<\/p><figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A woman holds a small bottle labelled with a &#8220;Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine&#8221; sticker and a medical syringe in this illustration taken  October 30, 2020. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic<\/figcaption><p>DEATHS AND INFECTIONS * Eikon users, see COVID-19: MacroVitals here for a case tracker and summary of news.<\/p>\n<h2>EUROPE<\/h2>\n<p>* European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen confirmed Pfizer and its partner BionTech will deliver 75 million extra doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to the European Union in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>* Eleven people in different regions of England have tested positive for the South African coronavirus variant without having any links to people who have travelled.<\/p>\n<p>* Portugal reported close to half of all its COVID-19 deaths in January, highlighting the severe worsening of the pandemic in a country whose plight has caused several European nations to offer help.<\/p>\n<p>* The Madrid region will start relaxing its restrictions this week, even as the rest of Spain and Europe are toughening measures to tame a third wave of infection.<\/p>\n<h2>ASIA-PACIFIC<\/h2>\n<p>* Hong Kong will extend social distancing measures for a further two weeks until after the Chinese New Year holiday, and will impose stricter testing rules when cases of COVID-19 are detected.<\/p>\n<p>* Japan is expected to extend a state of emergency this week for Tokyo and other areas as hospitals remain under pressure despite a decline in cases from their peaks.<\/p>\n<p>* Vietnam reported 32 more cases on Monday, all from capital Hanoi, and has shut schools in at least 22 cities and provinces since a new outbreak began in the country on Thursday.<\/p>\n<h2>AMERICAS<\/h2>\n<p>* Chicago teachers appeared headed for a strike or lockout over their latest dispute with the third-largest U.S. school district after the two sides failed to reach an deal on a COVID-19 safety plan even as they vowed to keep talking.<\/p>\n<p>* The COVAX global vaccine-sharing scheme expects to deliver 35.3 million doses of AstraZeneca\u2019s vaccine to 36 Caribbean and Latin American states from mid-February to the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>* Mexico\u2019s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is \u201cdoing well\u201d in his recovery from COVID-19, Mexico\u2019s interior minister said.<\/p>\n<h2>MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA<\/h2>\n<p>* The airplane carrying South Africa\u2019s first COVID-19 vaccine doses has landed at the OR Tambo international airport in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>* Israel said it supplied the Palestinians with their first shipment of COVID-19 shots, totalling 2,000 doses of Moderna\u2019s vaccine.<\/p>\n<h2>MEDICAL DEVELOPMENTS<\/h2>\n<p>* CureVac has signed up Bayer AG and contract drugmaker Rentschler to help to produce its experimental COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>* China\u2019s Clover Biopharmaceuticals said it has terminated its partnership with GlaxoSmithKline to develop a vaccine using the British drugmaker\u2019s adjuvant, even as early-stage trials showed positive results.<\/p>\n<p>* About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford\/AstraZeneca vaccine were given the wrong dose, but were not informed that a mistake had been made after the blunder was discovered, documents obtained by Reuters show.<\/p>\n<h2>ECONOMIC IMPACT<\/h2>\n<p>* Global shares bounced and silver markets surged on Monday as retail investors expanded their social media-fuelled battle with Wall Street to drive the precious metal to an eight-year high. [MKTS\/GLOB]<\/p>\n<p>* Rents have tumbled in Madrid and Barcelona because of the pandemic, property portal Idealista said, a stark contrast to once-saturated rental markets in which landlords could expect ever-higher returns.<\/p>\n<p>* British manufacturers suffered a double hit last month as COVID-19 disruptions to global shipping combined with new trade barriers with the EU, according to a survey.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-latest\/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus-idUSL8N2C60GZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; President Joe Biden will meet 10 moderate Republican senators on Monday to discuss their proposal to shrink his sweeping $1.9 trillion U.S. COVID-19 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/factbox-latest-on-the-worldwide-spread-of-the-coronavirus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Reuters) &#8211; 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