Brazil’s descent into hell does not stop, whose latest bulletin relating to the Covid emergency recorded the heaviest toll in terms of human lives within the 24 hours from the appearance of the disease on the national territory. In fact, 3,251 people died due to the new coronavirus yesterday in the Amazonian country, for a total that has now reached 298,676 lethality since the onset of the disease. The number of new infections is also very high, 82,493, for a total of 12,130,019. The state of Sao Paulo alone has recorded 1,021 deaths, a number never reached before and which brings the total to 68,623, although according to local authorities this would be an underestimated figure as hundreds of deaths would have occurred without the possibility to perform a diagnosis, given the moment of enormous suffering of the health system, overwhelmed by an incessant influx of sick people.
WHO, between 15 and 21 March infections on the rise (8%)
More than 3.2 million new cases of Covid-19 were recorded worldwide in the week of March 15-21, up 8% from the previous seven days, according to the weekly pandemic situation bulletin. published by the World Health Organization. According to these data, global mortality increased by 3%, with 60,414 deaths recorded in the period examined. In the same period of time, 3,291,060 new infections were also detected which as of March 21 brought the total from the onset of the disease to 122,536,880 of which 2,703,780 fatal results (unfortunately until this morning these data have further increased up to to reach, according to the Jhu, 124,153,278 infections and 2,734,045 deaths). The most evident increase in infections was found in Southeast Asia (+ 49%), the Western Pacific (+ 29%) and Europe (+ 13%), while the Americas recorded a decrease of 5% and the ‘Africa by 3%. Mortality instead increased in Southeast Asia (+ 14%), Eastern Mediterranean (+ 12%), Africa (+ 10%), North and South America (+ 2%) and Europe (+ 1%), but at the at the same time it shrank by 33% in the Western Pacific region. In the week under review, over 1.17 million people contracted the infection in North and South America and more than 31,000 died. The number of cases in Europe increased by over 1.4 million in the reported period, while deaths increased by 21,000. In Southeast Asia, the health authorities registered 298 thousand new infections and over 2,400 victims. Brazil (over 508,000 new cases) represents the majority of cases recorded between March 15 and 21, followed by the United States (over 374,000), India (over 240,000), France (over 204,000), Italy (over 154,000), Poland (over 151,000), Turkey (over 126,000), Germany (over 90,000), Ukraine (over 85,000), the Czech Republic (over 70,000), Russia (over 66,000) and Jordan (over 57,000).
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The Cuban vaccine since June
Cuba plans to start its coronavirus vaccination campaign in June with one of its in-house vaccines and to have half its population immunized by August, authorities announced. The country has two vaccine candidates, Soberana 2 and Abdala, in phase 3, the last one before approval. If either reaches final approval, it would be the first Covid vaccine designed and manufactured in Latin America. “The launch time for the vaccine we are considering” is “June,” Iliana Morales Suarez, director of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Ministry of Health, told television. Before that, the country expects to have “just over two million” people vaccinated by May, combining phase 3 clinical trials with large-scale intervention studies with health professionals. On March 4, Soberana 2 entered phase 3, involving 44,000 volunteers, and on Monday, 150,000 health workers began being vaccinated in an intervention study. Both tests are conducted in Havana.
China, Shanghai offers vaccinations to foreign residents
The city of Shanghai will offer vaccinations against Covid-19 to foreign residents. This was announced by the local authorities in the late evening of yesterday, March 23. Shanghai is the first city in China to make vaccines available to the non-Chinese population. According to a public notice, as of March 29, foreigners “of adequate age” will be able to book appointments online to receive a nationally developed vaccine. Taking the vaccine will cost uninsured people 100 yuan ($ 20). The city of Beijing this week began offering vaccines to foreign journalists and diplomats. However, the vaccines are not available to most of the other non-Chinese residents in the city.
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India, over 160,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic
The number of deaths related to Covid-19 recorded since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded 160,000 in India, according to data from the American University of Johns Hopkins. The South Asian country of 1 billion and 380 million inhabitants has so far reported a total of nearly 11.7 million cases, of which 11.2 million have been cured. Second only to China for populations, India is third in the world for the number of infections (behind the United States and Brazil) and fourth for the number of deaths (behind the USA, Brazil and Mexico).
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