Over six million people in Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city, and in the rest of the state of Victoria enter a week of rigid lockdown to stem the increase in infections from Covid. The lockdown will apply from midnight for at least seven days, Premier James Merlino told residents.
In the US close to 50 percent of vaccinated with at least the first dose
The United States has reached 33,188,028 confirmed coronavirus cases and 591,922 deaths, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University. In the last 24 hours, the toll has been 1,016 deaths and 23,386 infections. California is now the state most affected by the pandemic with 63,014 deaths, followed by New York (53,208) and Texas (51,350), The provisional death toll -591,922- far exceeds the lower limit of the White House’s initial estimates, which at best predicted between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic. As for vaccines, approximately 165 million people (49.7% of the population) have received at least one dose, of which 131.8 million (39.7%) are already fully inoculated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. .
In Brazil 2,398 victims in 24 hours: lowest figure since March
With 2,398 victims in the last 24 hours, the total number of deaths from diseases attributable to the new coronavirus infection in Brazil reaches 454,429. This was reported by the Ministry of Health. The average of the last seven days is 1,820 deaths, a decrease of 4.7 percent compared to that recorded in the previous two weeks. The figure is the lowest since last March 12, confirming a consolidated downward trend. As for the infections, adding the data provided by the health departments of the 27 states, the toll came to at least 16,274,695 cases, 80,448 of which were recorded in the previous 24 hours.
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