“Two hundred million Europeans have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, or more than half of the adult population,” the European Commission announced, which set a target of 70% of vaccinated adults this summer. Commission president Ursula von der Leyen added that the EU plans to donate “more than 200 million doses of the vaccine to low- and middle-income countries by the end of the year”, double the target it had set. till now.
Covid, European Central Bank concern for the Delta variant and the economy
The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, expressed concern about the “growing uncertainty” linked to the increase in the contagion curves fueled by the Delta variant, which confirms the institution’s choice to keep the course of an accommodative monetary policy. With the explosion in the number of Delta variant contaminations, hundreds of thousands of contact cases are forced into isolation in the UK, causing disruption in many sectors, such as food and transport. Supermarket chains, meat producers and hauliers have reported a shortage of labor.
Covid: Brazil, 1,412 deaths and 49,757 infections, decline in the last 24 hours
Brazil has recorded 49,757 new cases and 1,412 new deaths associated with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, according to official data released by the government. From the first infection, on February 26, 2020, and from the first death, on March 12 of the same year, the Latin American giant now adds 19,523,711 confirmed cases and totals 547,016 deaths. The Ministry of Health, in its latest epidemiological bulletin, indicated that between Wednesday and Thursday there was a decrease in the number of infected people (-8.73%) and a slight decrease in the number of daily deaths (-0, 84%).
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