Here we are, the Tokyo Paralympics begin at 8 pm in Japan, 1 pm in Italy, but fears remain for Covid, Emperor Naruhito will officially kick off the XVI Paralympic Games and the planetary event will end on the 5th September, and to be awarded 540 medals in 22 sports.
But the pandemic will still keep a large part of the 68,000 seats at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium empty, even as all of Japan is ready to celebrate the Games and animate the hopes of more than 4,400 athletes from 162 national teams to break new records and break all residual stereotypes. . Among the most anticipated athletes are German long jumper Markus Rehm, nicknamed “Blade Jumper”, who set a world record, and Japanese tennis legend Shingo Kunieda. Even on these games, however, the shadow of the pandemic from Covid-19 weighs, which first postponed the 2020 Games by a year and then continued to threaten it with delays and displacements of the races. After months of negative polls, however, Japanese public opinion on the Olympics after the games started changed and they welcomed the event with enthusiasm. Despite this, it is a fact that the contagion situation in Japan has worsened in the weeks following the Olympics opening ceremony, with the country experiencing more than 25,000 daily infections in the past week. However, the Japanese epidemic remains relatively less severe than in other countries, with around 15,500 deaths so far, but only 40% of the population is fully vaccinated. Insufficient number to contain the Delta variant which is spreading rapidly.
After being outbreaks of Covid contagion a year and a half ago, cruise ships have rushed to leave with very strict health measures. The latest is the Carnival Cruise Line, the shipping company: from 28 August to the end of October, mandatory vaccination for all passengers aged 12 and over for cruises departing from the Atlantic. In addition, from 3 September also all travelers, always over the age of 12, headed to the Bahamas, will have to be vaccinated against Covid. The measure was taken after the Federal Health Centers raised the alarm to level ‘4’, the highest, for anyone headed to the Caribbean island. As of June, Carnival Vista had recorded 27 cases of passengers testing positive for the virus. One was then dead.
USA does not recommend trips to the Bahamas and Morocco
The federal centers of health, the CDC, have advised American travelers against going to six new destinations, due to the “high risk” of contagion from Covid: they are Bahamas, Morocco, Haiti, Kosovo, Lebanon and the Caribbean island Dutch of Sint Maarten. The CDCs have raised the alarm to “level 4”, the highest.
Biden, records of Covid vaccine administration last week
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has welcomed the results of the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 obtained in recent days. “Last week we recorded another record of vaccinations: more than 1 million doses per day for three consecutive days. It is the first time this has happened since June,” Biden wrote in a message on Twitter.
In Colombia, 2,698 new cases of Covid-19 have been recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to 4.9 million. This was announced by the Ministry of Health of Bogota. There were 99 deaths from causes related to the virus, bringing the total number of victims to 124,315. As for vaccines, the ministry announced that 149,984 doses were administered on Sunday, of which 38,781 were second doses and 2,280 administrations of single-dose serum from the pharmaceutical company Janssen. In total, 33,405,365 doses were administered and 14,250,028 completed the vaccination course.
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Brazil: 13,103 new cases, 321 deaths
In Brazil, 13,103 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in the last 24 hours, while the deaths have been 321. Government sources have communicated this. The country, one of the most affected by the pandemic in the world, is still seeing the contagion curve down. With this update, the cases recorded so far rise to 20,583,994, while the death toll rises to 574,848.
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Mexico: 6,543 new infections, 371 dead
In Mexico, 371 new deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 253,526. The number of newly infected was instead of 6,543, for a total of 3,231,616 infections since the beginning of the pandemic. The country is at the center of the third wave of infections. With these numbers, Mexico remains the country with the fourth highest number of deaths from Covid-19 after the United States, Brazil and India, and the fifteenth highest number of confirmed infections, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.
Nicaragua: dlr 353.5 million received from IMF for damage from Covid-19
Nicaragua has received $ 353.5 million from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to address the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and to bolster its international reserves. This was announced by the Central Bank of Nicaragua. The funds, it is specified, were assigned as special drawing rights (DSP), the unit of account of the Monetary Fund, the value of which is obtained from a basket of national currencies.
Usa, the map that shows how Covid has again engulfed the country in a month
