About 200,000 people vaccinated in India, campaigns in Europe are accelerating

VACCINATION against the new coronavirus has reached a new stage in the world with nearly 200,000 vaccinated in India and the acceleration of campaigns in Europe where officials want to ensure faster deadlines for vaccine deliveries. India, the second most populous country in the world with a population of 1.3 billion, vaccinated more than 190,000 people on Saturday, the first day. At the same time, officials are reassuring residents about a slowdown in Pfizer vaccine deliveries in Europe at a time when several countries, faced with the spread of new variants of the virus, have tightened measures to stem the covida-19 pandemic. "Savior of life" "We have received encouraging and satisfying messages on the first day," Indian Health Minister Harsh Vardhan told his counterparts in Indian states on Saturday, adding that the vaccine would have a "life-saving" effect. The government plans to vaccinate 300 million people by July - roughly equivalent to the total U.S. population. As the most populous country in the world after China, India also believes it may not need to vaccinate all of its 1.35 billion inhabitants to create herd immunity. The Indian drug regulator has urgently approved two vaccines: Covishield, produced by the British University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, and Covaxin, produced by the Indian company Bharat Biotech. With more than 10.5 million infected, India has the second largest number of infected in the world, after the United States. The death toll from coronavirus in India is over 152 thousand. Europe Austria is extending its third quarantine until at least February 8 due to a variant of the coronavirus initially discovered in the UK that is gaining momentum, the government said on Sunday, as dissatisfaction with the restriction measures grows. France is preparing to expand vaccination on Monday to get a tough fight against the virus, which has already claimed more than 70,000 lives after moving the curfew earlier on Saturday, from 6 to 6 p.m. The campaign will extend to people over the age of 75 who do not live in nursing homes (5 million people), as well as to about 800,000 people with high-risk diseases, such as chronic kidney failure, and treated for cancer. Spain began vaccinating on Sunday with the second dose of the covid-19 vaccine of the priority person who received the first dose in December. Last week, Spain crossed the symbolic threshold of 2 million confirmed cases and on Friday had 40,197 newly infected in 24 hours. Europe has high hopes for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, and countries are hit by a strong second wave and a British variant that scientists hold 74 percent more contagious. The two labs guaranteed on Saturday that they had devised a plan to limit delays in the delivery of their vaccine to a week. The number of victims is more than two million In several countries, restrictions are being tightened as new variants of the virus spread. Italy banned flights from Brazil on Saturday due to a new variant discovered in that country, and as of Monday, it will introduce quarantine in the three most exposed regions. In Colombia and Lebanon, where authorities have imposed strict quarantine, hospitals are overcrowded. Cambodia announced on Saturday that it was receiving help from China, which would supply them with a million doses of its Sinovac vaccine. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Li has promised the Philippines a free 500,000 doses of vaccine. According to the latest data from the agency France Presse, covid-19 has killed at least 2,022,740 people in the world since the office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in China announced the outbreak of the disease in late December 2019.