The World Health Organization issued a warning against Delta, a mutated strain of the new coronavirus. China also monitored new coronavirus-risk areas on the 31st, while the number of deaths in many other countries hit a record high.
The WHO stated that the new mutant virus is a warning to the world, reminding the world to take swift action to contain the current round of the epidemic before the situation deteriorates again.
This highly contagious mutant strain was first discovered in India. The World Health Organization said that the strain has now appeared in 132 regions around the world and is part of the 80% increase in the number of deaths from the new coronavirus in Africa in the past 4 weeks. The reason lies.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “So far, there have been 4 worrying mutations, and as long as the new coronavirus continues to spread, there will be more mutations.”
The virus has become more susceptible and spread more rapidly, but our response plan has not changed. However, we need to implement the response plan more efficiently and effectively than in the past.
New risk area
China announced on the 31st that it has discovered new risk areas for the new crown epidemic in two other regions, including Chongqing, a municipality with a population of 31 million. This is the most severe epidemic situation China has experienced in recent months.
The National Health Commission of China said that new confirmed cases of infection have been detected in Fujian Province and Chongqing City, adding these two regions to Beijing and four other provinces that previously reported confirmed infection with the mutant strain of Delta.
The cumulative number of new infections in these areas has reached 55, bringing the number of registered infections in China since the first outbreak in Jiangsu Province on July 20 to more than 200. At that time, 9 staff members at Nanjing Lukou Airport were diagnosed with the infection. Virus.
Due to the increase in infection cases across the country, the Nanjing authorities have now ordered all tourist attractions and cultural venues to stop opening.
At present, Jiangsu Province and its capital city Nanjing have quarantined hundreds of thousands of residents, and Nanjing has also conducted two nucleic acid tests on its 9.2 million residents.
U.S. restrictions
US President Biden said that the United States will soon issue recommendations or implement new restrictions to contain the new crown epidemic, and also welcomes the resumption of the new crown vaccination process in his country.
However, Biden did not mention the types of related measures at the press conference. At the same time, US federal authorities, local officials, and companies have begun to tighten health agreements.
In the face of the rapidly spreading mutant strain of Delta, US authorities recommend that American citizens living in areas where the virus spreads wear masks indoors, even if they have been vaccinated with the full dose of the new crown vaccine.
The third dose of vaccine
The Israeli authorities have begun a campaign to provide a third dose of the new crown vaccine to people 60 years and older.
In December last year, Israel was one of the first countries to launch a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination campaign, thanks to an agreement reached between Israel and Pfizer, which allowed it to quickly obtain millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine in exchange for this company. Large pharmaceutical companies provide medical data on the effectiveness of vaccines.
The vaccination campaign enabled Israel to successfully reduce the number of new infections in a single day from nearly 10,000 to less than 100, which once again promoted the country’s economic development and reopened part of its borders.
With the widespread spread of the mutated strain of Delta, some people said that a third dose of booster vaccine is needed to deal with the virus. Some medical experts have concluded that even among people who have received the full dose of the new crown vaccine, there has been a relative decline in resistance to the virus.
According to news released by the US Embassy in Tunisia, the Tunisian authorities, which are facing great difficulties in dealing with a new round of new coronavirus infections, received 1 million doses of Modena vaccine donated by the United States on the 30th.
Tunisia is currently facing a very severe situation-unable to prevent a new round of infections, and major hospitals are also generally hypoxic. In this Maghreb country with a population of nearly 12 million, its death rate from the new crown virus has reached the highest level in the world-currently 19,000 people in the country have died from the virus.
Record-breaking rise
The number of new coronavirus infections registered in Thailand hit a record high and reached 18,912 on the 31st, bringing the total number of infections to 597,287.
The number of new deaths in a single day in this Asian country also broke the original record and reached 178, bringing the country’s total death toll since the outbreak of the epidemic to 4,857.
Colombia has registered a total of 306 new deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of deaths due to the new crown virus in the country to more than 120,000.
Brazil has registered 963 new deaths and nearly 41,000 new infections in the past 24 hours.
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