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In Brazil, over 95,000 new cases and a new cluster in China

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Brazil, one of the countries most affected by the coronavirus in the world, records 95,601 new covid-19 infections, the highest number since March, and 2,507 deaths. The bulletin indicates how the South American country has reached 16,720,081 confirmed cases and 467,706 deaths related to the coronavirus. The 95,601 positives reported represent the highest figure since last March 25, when there were 100,158 infected, a historic record since the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic.

The numbers confirm the country – of about 212 million inhabitants – the second in the world with the highest number of deaths, behind the United States, and the third with the highest number of infections, after the United States and India.
But the world is alarmed by the new virus cluster discovered in southern China. Fifteen other cases of COVID-19 have been reported here in the southern Chinese province of Guangzhou, with a report stating that the coronavirus variant in the latest outbreak is more transmissible than previous clusters in the country.
The focus is also on the vaccine front, with Japan donating $ 800 million to the UN-backed COVID-19 vaccine program, AstraZeneca starts shipments of Thailand-made vaccines and the Sinovac vaccine brings a Brazilian city back to normal.
It then raises the case of the state of California that has agreed to pay more than $ 2 million in legal fees in an agreement with churches that have contested orders to close the pandemic. Church attorneys who successfully filed their appeal with the US Supreme Court said Wednesday that the state agreed not to impose stricter restrictions on places of worship than for commercial activities.
Several churches have challenged Governor Gavin Newsom’s restrictions as violations of their First Amendment right to worship. It is no coincidence that the International Labor Organization claims that the COVID-19 pandemic has created an “unprecedented” global labor market crisis that will affect the labor market for years.

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The UN agency said in a report Wednesday that it is estimated that 8.8% of total working hours were lost last year. He says it is “the equivalent of the hours worked in a year by 255 million full-time workers”. According to estimates, if there hadn’t been a pandemic, the world would have created 30 million new jobs in 2020. The agency predicts that an uneven economic recovery that is expected to start in the second half of 2021 will create 100 million jobs this year and another 80 million in 2022. He says it’s still below pre-pandemic levels.

Then comes the news from New York that the world‘s leading COVID-19 vaccines can offer lasting protection that reduces the need for frequent booster vaccinations. According to scientists, who are finding clues to how the body “remembers” viruses, more research is needed and mutations in the virus are still a wild card. Critical studies are underway and evidence is mounting that immunity from Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines does not depend solely on decreasing antibodies over time.
And from Japan the newspapers today report the fact that the country has given a significant acceleration to its vaccination campaign against Covid-19, undertaken much later than most other developed countries.
The office of the Prime Minister of Japan, Yoshihide Suga, announced yesterday that more than 10 million people have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, equivalent to about 8 percent of Japan’s population of 126 million. Specifically, 4.65 million health workers and 5.73 million citizens aged over 65 have been vaccinated. About 3.6 million people have already received the full course of two doses of the vaccine. The Japanese government expects vaccinations for medical personnel to be completed within 10 to 20 days. The acceleration was made possible by the activation of vaccination hubs in the large cities of Osaka and Tokyo, and by the logistical support of companies such as Toyota Motor, which have made available their know-how developed for the vaccination campaign. just in time “for the production of goods and services.

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