Local Confinement Daily – February 1st 2021

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Introduction

▫️ Despite these periods of semi-confinement, curfew and other restrictions time appears to fly by. February 2021 is upon us already. At this stage we are all expecting a worsening of the sanitary crisis and a possible 3rd strict confinement. The next few days will be decisive.

▫️ February has never been my favorite month and I have almost always tried in the past to get away as far south of possible on business or holidays. Unfortunately, it will not be possible this time round. Quite a depressing thought.

▫️ I need to rethink the format of these posts. I do not think it is really necessary to keep a daily record of the data / statistics on the blog. It simply uses badly needed memory space. It might be best to have a dedicated page / space on the blog where the data is updated everyday and replaces the previous one. I would not stop a daily post on other subjects and in any case I have a multitude of Excel files on my computer (myCloud) where I keep records of all the data I extract from different sources. I shall think further about this and experiment.

▫️ The German laboratory BioNTech announced earlier today an acceleration of deliveries to the European Union of the Covid-19 vaccine developed with the American Pfizer, promising up to 75 million additional doses in the second quarter.

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Daily Snapshot

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▫️ Vaccinations report

The end of January 1 Million target has been surpassed by almost half a million. The original target for vaccinations by the end of February was 2.5 Million (although before the vaccinations started, a number of 4,5 Million had been mentionned). Assuming the delivery of vaccines, my projection is 3,5 Million.