Australia is on high alert after detecting new strains of "Covid-19"

Record number of "Corona" injuries in America ... and a new lockdown in Asia

A French nurse during vaccinations against "Corona" for doctors and nursing staff in Cannes.

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The United States recorded a record number of daily infections with the emerging coronavirus, as President-elect Joe Biden denounced the vaccination mechanism approved by the administration of the outgoing president, Donald Trump, while a new lockdown began in Asia involving millions of people to try to control the spread of the epidemic.

So far, the virus has caused the death of about 1.9 million people, and the infection of about 88 million and 885 thousand and 646 cases, while the new mutated strain of Corona led to a significant increase in the number of infections, and prompted many countries to re-impose a closure, despite the start Vaccination campaigns against "Covid-19".

In detail, the United States recorded, the day before yesterday, a new record for "Covid-19" cases within 24 hours, which reached about 290 thousand injuries, according to Johns Hopkins University reference.

In the same time period, America counted 3,676 deaths from the emerging corona virus, according to the university that updates its data constantly.

On Thursday, the United States recorded a new record for Corona virus deaths within 24 hours, amounting to about 4000 deaths.

The number of people admitted to hospitals has also increased since the beginning of the pandemic, as about 131,000 patients are currently occupying beds due to their infection with the virus, according to statistics from the "Covid Tracking Project", which analyzes data in the United States daily.

In total, the United States has recorded 21.8 million HIV infections, and more than 368,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

"Vaccines give us hope, but the distribution mechanism was a farce," President-elect Joe Biden said from his headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, adding that the distribution of the vaccine "will be the biggest operational challenge we can face as a nation."

In Australia, health officials said yesterday that they are on high alert after detecting cases of highly contagious mutated strains of the Corona virus, which were discovered for the first time in Britain and South Africa.

The city of Brisbane, the capital of Queensland state, imposed strict lockdown restrictions that would last for three days, after the discovery of a highly contagious strain of the virus that was discovered in Britain, and the city’s streets were empty of pedestrians with the start of a lockdown affecting more than two million people.

Sydney, the largest city in Australia, also detected in one of its quarantine hotels infection with the mutated virus that was discovered in South Africa.

And in China, where the epidemic first appeared in late 2019, the authorities have tightened restrictions in two cities near Beijing, with the aim of stopping the spread of the virus in a new focus that has been detected.

About 18 million people in the cities of Shijiazhuang and Xingtai have been required to stay home.

Yesterday, the National Health Committee said that it had recorded 33 new cases of Corona virus.

In parallel to the lockdown in Asia, several European countries began to tighten restrictions or impose a closure.

In Sweden, the day before yesterday, legislation was passed allowing the government for the first time to close restaurants and commercial companies.

In Greece, the authorities extended, until January 18, the strict lockdown imposed in the country for about two months, and Cyprus announced that it would impose a nationwide lockdown for the second time to curb the outbreak of the new Corona virus.

Africa, which was relatively immune to the first wave of the epidemic, recorded a significant increase in injuries in the past weeks, as Senegal recorded the highest death toll (eight) and 296 injuries, the day before yesterday.

In a hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, the managing director, Ngozi Onia, compared the rise in cases to a "tsunami."

In Britain, the total number of confirmed cases of the Coronavirus reached 2.97 million cases yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News, and according to the data, the total number of deaths related to the virus reached 79,965 cases.

In Russia, the health authorities announced yesterday that 470 deaths and 23,309 cases of Corona virus had been recorded during the past 24 hours.

In Ramallah, the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Al-Keela, announced yesterday that 855 new cases of the Coronavirus, and 26 deaths, were recorded during the past 24 hours.

Despite nearly a year of intermittent restrictions around the world, several countries are still recording record levels of new infections with the new Corona virus, including Britain, which announced a total of 1,325 deaths and 68,053 infections in 24 hours.

Fears increased about the new strain of the virus that appeared in Britain and South Africa, but the company, "Biontech", spread reassurance by announcing that its vaccine is effective against the mutated strain of the virus.

In Brazil, which has the second-highest death toll after the United States, two vaccine manufacturers, Chinese Sinovac and AstraZeneca-Oxford, have applied for a license.

As the race to obtain the vaccine intensified, the World Health Organization called yesterday for more solidarity, and called on rich countries to stop concluding "bilateral agreements" with pharmaceutical companies. The head of the vaccine procurement and distribution operations led by the World Health Organization, Bruce Aylward, said: “50% of the high-income countries in the world are vaccinating today.” He added, “Low-income countries never vaccinate, this is unfair.” The total number of confirmed cases of the new Corona virus worldwide has reached 88 million and 885 1,646 cases yesterday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and Bloomberg News.

The death toll from "Covid-19" reached one million 913 thousand and 747 cases.

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A thousand cases of «Corona» within 24 hours in the United States, and Russia records 470 deaths.

Corona in the world: about 88.9 million injuries, and 1.9 million deaths.

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