The number of cases in the coronavirus epidemic worldwide exceeded 138 million 533 thousand, the number of those who lost their lives exceeded 2 million 978 thousand, and the number of those who recovered exceeded 111 million 368 thousand.
The number of cases increased to 32 million 89 thousand in the USA, 14 million 45 thousand in India, 13 million 601 thousand in Brazil and 5 million 106 thousand in France.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
EU opens negotiations to buy 1.8 billion additional doses of vaccine
Sweden and Denmark stopped the use of a single-dose vaccine produced by the US pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson due to the claim that it causes blood clots.
In the Netherlands, the government announced that the measures implemented throughout the country as part of the fight against the epidemic could be relaxed within a 5-stage plan as of April 28.
It has been announced that the decision to ban "unnecessary" entries and exits to the country, which has been implemented in Belgium since 27 January, will be lifted from 19 April.
The European Union (EU) has started negotiations with BioNTech-Pfizer to receive 1.8 billion additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Highest daily number of cases reached in Thailand
It has been reported that the EU is preparing to borrow a total of 800 billion euros until 2026 for the recovery fund, which is prepared to combat the economic consequences of the epidemic.
It was announced that industrial production in the Euro Zone decreased by 1 percent compared to the previous month in February, when the epidemic measures continued.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), stated that the number of diabetics has quadrupled in the last 40 years worldwide, and stated that most of the severe patients hospitalized due to the epidemic are diabetic.
While Iran stopped its flights to France as part of the fight against the epidemic, it restarted its flights to England, which were suspended about 4 months ago.
According to the statement made by the Thailand COVID-19 Situation Management Center, it reached the highest number of daily cases with 1335 cases detected in the last 24 hours.