Maurizio Stefanini
WHO warns about possible new waves of Covid: “There is a risk of more dangerous variants”. And indeed new warning signs are bouncing around from around the world. According to John Hopkins University monitoring, there are 188,784,855 million cases of Covid-19 and more in the world 4 million dead. 3.53 billion doses of the vaccine have been administered so far UK there is a new peak of Covid cases, which reaches the highest level since January: in the last 24 hours, 48,553 infections have been reported and 63 deaths. It is also the highest daily increase since March 26. In Austria a package of measures proposed by the Minister of Health, Wolfgang Mueckstein, provides, among other things, the green pass only after the second dose, access to discos and nightclubs only for the vaccinated. There is also talk of “more border controls” and in restaurants and the obligation to swab for those returning from areas at risk. The liberalizations announced for July 22, such as the stop of masks in shops, are suspended. The Delta variant now accounts for 90% of new cases. “We have to react quickly,” says Minister Mueckstein.
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Again to curb the new wave of Covid, the Spanish justice gave the green light to the reinstatement of the curfew for at least a week in several large cities of Catalonia, including Barcelona, starting from the weekend. It is a time when the infection in the region is spreading again, especially among the young. With 56,757 new cases in 24 hours, theIndonesia it is the country that reports the most consistent rise in infections. They follow Brazil (+52.789), UK precisely (+48.641), India (+38.949), United States (+28.412), Spain (+27.688), Russia (+24.793), Iran (+23.655), Argentina (+17.295), South Africa (+16,435). In Indonesia the dead have exceeded the quota 70.000.
According to several observers, the situation could be worse than what the numbers show, due to the lack of checks carried out. A study released on Saturday found that nearly half of Jakarta’s 10.6 million residents may have contracted Covid-19. In the US there are fears of “a pandemic of the unvaccinated”: with the Delta variant. And the United States is recording an average of 26,000 new cases a day, 70 percent higher than last week. After a week with over 1,000 new cases, Los Angeles County is preparing to reintroduce the obligation to wear a mask indoors, even for people vaccinated against Covid. In Australia also Melbourne, later Sydney, returns to close to try to limit the infections of the Delta variant of Covid. As many as 12 in 25 million Australians will only be able to go out for essential expenses, motivate work, health and exercise. Drastic measures are also announced in China. If the whole family has not been vaccinated, the children will not be able to go back to school after the summer holidays: a decision taken by several local administrations to increase vaccination rates for the moment still too low compared to the objectives set.
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