Covid: in Hungary new record of cases and hospitalizations, Brazil is struggling and returns second in the world

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March 13, 2021

Hungary reported a new record of Covid-19 cases and the number of patients being treated in the country's hospitals also reached a new high.

Health authorities have reported 9,444 new confirmed cases, over a thousand more than the previous record, set on Friday.

The leap came during a rapid spread of the coronavirus variant first discovered in the UK.

The epidemic has put a strain on the Hungarian health system.

Officials reported the hospitalization of an additional 179 patients with Covid-19, bringing the national total to a record high of 8,897.

Hungary has the second highest vaccination rate in the European Union, supported by the acquisition of vaccines from Russia, China and the EU.

The number of people who have received at least one dose of a vaccine has risen to nearly 1.3 million out of the population of 10 million.

Officials plan to vaccinate all people over the age of 60 by Easter.

Hungary has reported 16,790 virus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, the seventh worst death rate per million people in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Transfers of Covid patients from the hospitals of Ile-de-France, the Paris region, to areas of France where the situation of health facilities is less has begun worrying.

According to reports to BFM-TV by Frédéric Adnet, medical director of the emergency room in the Saint-Denis region, north of Paris, "from today we are evacuating some patients by plane from Ile-de-France". Three patients are on their way transfer already this morning, one from the Avicenne hospital in Bobigny to Nantes, on the Atlantic coast.

Another, hospitalized at the Pompidou in Paris, will be transferred to Angers (west).

The last, from the hospital of Beaujon, north of the capital, towards Le Mans (north-west).

The patients - in resuscitation but stabilized on the cardiac and respiratory level - are transferred by helicopter, after authorization from the families, to the regions less affected by the virus, the west and the south-west, the doctor specified.

France hopes to exceed the target of 10 million people vaccinated against Covid-19 in mid-April, and this "despite the spite of the laboratories": said the prime minister, Jean Castex, on a visit to a vaccination center in Saint-Maixent-L'Ecole, in the west of the country.

"In April we will have a heavy challenge to take - said Castex - because we will have many vaccines. We have set ourselves the goal of 10 million vaccinations on April 15 and I do not despair of being able to overcome it. But - he said shortly after the news came out. of the new AstraZeneca referrals in supplies - we have to be cautious, as the laboratories are bothering us in respecting the delivery deadlines.

Brazil returns second country in the world for number of cases

Brazil has overtaken India for total number of infections from Covid-19.

In the last 24 hours, the South American giant has registered 85,663 new cases, the highest figure since the beginning of the pandemic, for a total of 11,363,380 infections.

New Delhi instead communicated a daily increase of 24,882 for a total of 11,333,728 infections since the appearance of the coronavirus in the Asian country.

The carioca country now occupies the second position in the world behind the United States which has identified 29.3 million infected.

According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, behind the trio are Russia (4.33 million), the United Kingdom (4.26 million), France (4.07 million), Spain (3.18 million) and Italy (3 , 17 million).

The gap between Brazil and India is destined to widen as the former struggles to keep the spread of the virus under control while the latter goes through a stabilization phase.

The average number of cases in the last week in Brazil reached a record high of about 70,000 cases, 55.25% more than a month ago.

Brazil had already occupied the second place in this world rankings for several weeks in 2020 when, last September, they were overtaken by India.

The country led by Jair Bolsonaro maintains the second position even if we consider the number of deaths from Covid which has exceeded the threshold of 275 thousand.

For the third consecutive day, more than 2 thousand deaths were recorded: 2,286 on Wednesday, 2,233 on Thursday and 2,216 on Friday, for an overall average of 1,762 deaths per day since the beginning of the pandemic.

Compared to a month ago, the number of deaths increased by 65.4%.

USA, administered over 100 million doses of vaccines

Three months after the start of the vaccination campaign, in the United States there are more than 100 million doses of anti-Covid vaccines administered.

Up to and including Friday, more than 101 million doses of the three serums authorized in the US have been used, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and more than one in four adults has received at least the first dose of the vaccine.

13.5% of American adults who have already had a booster with the second dose, if required, were immunized.

Among the over 65s, the figures rise to 61.1%, as regards those who received at least the first dose of the vaccine, and to 32.4% for those who are now immunized.

In the US, with a population of about 330 million people, the vaccination campaign started on January 14 under the Trump presidency.

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and Johnson & Johnson's single-dose serum have so far been authorized.

South Korea has recorded another 490 cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, never so many in three weeks.

Of these, 474 are locally transmitted and 16 imported.

Almost 70% of the more than 95,000 infections we have had so far are located in the area of ​​the capital Seoul, where about half of the population lives.

A new variant of Covid, initially reported by the Philippines, has been identified for the first time on a man who arrived at Narita airport in Tokyo.

This was announced by the Japanese Minister of Health, explaining that the passenger of about 60 years, had arrived in Japan on February 25 from the South-East Asian country, testing positive, although asymptomatic.

Further examination at the National Institute of Infectious Diseases revealed that it is the same strain of the pathogen already reported in the Philippines.

The institute warns that the variant could be more infectious than the original and could present elements of aggression in the level of diffusion of the mutations received from Great Britain, Brazil, and South Africa.

Philippine medical authorities have recorded 34 cases of infections related to that specific variant up to March 3.

The anti Covid vaccination campaign

started this morning.

The first to be vaccinated at the Menzah sports hall in Tunis was a health worker.

The priority, announced the Ministry of Health of the North African country will in fact be ensured to doctors and nurses on the front line, followed by the elderly and people with chronic diseases.

There are 25 vaccination centers throughout the country: Tunisia received the first batch of 30,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine this week, Health Minister Faouzi Medhi said, stating that 93,600 doses of Pfizer-Biontech vaccines will be delivered. next week as part of the international Covax program, coordinated by WHO.

As is known, the country will also receive a total of 500,000 doses of Russian vaccines that will be delivered shortly, as well as 137,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine and a donation of 200,000 doses of the Chinese one Sinovac.

In the last week of March, Tunisia is expected to receive a new batch of 100,000 doses of Pfizer-Biontech vaccines.

Tunisia has recorded 240,617 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 8,329 since the outbreak began, according to the health ministry.

There are 1,085 hospitalized patients, of which 269 in intensive care and 101 in assisted breathing.

Countries with the most deaths from Covid

According to the latest statistics, the list of countries with the most deaths from Covid is led by the United States (532,593).

Followed by Brazil (275,105), Mexico (193,851), India (158,446), United Kingdom (125,580) and Italy (101,564).

For the organization "Doctors Without Borders", Brazil, with its 210 million inhabitants, has just under 3% of the world population, but records 10.4% of deaths and 9.5% of coronavirus infections of the world.

Percentage, that of the new infected, which rises to 15% if only the last two weeks are taken into consideration.