Covid-19, Biden accelerates on vaccines. In the world, 2 million and 800 thousand deaths since the beginning of the pandemic

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06 April 2021

At least 530 new coronavirus deaths and 76,594 new infections were reported in the

yesterday, according to the authoritative New York Times database.

In the past week, there have been an average of 64,851 cases per day, a 20% increase from the average two weeks earlier.

At the level of individual countries, the United States remains by far the most affected nation in the world and has now passed the threshold of 550 thousand deaths (555,597) out of over 30 million infections (30,784,405).

Reports of new cases have increased, mainly due to the spread of mutated strains of the virus, although the pace of vaccinations has been greatly increased, with more than three million doses per day.

Nearly a third of all people in the United States have taken at least one dose.

According to the latest available data, 165,053,746 vaccines have been injected in the United States since December.

Of the total population, 106,214,924 people (32%) received at least one dose of the vaccine, while 61,416,536 (18.5%) completed the vaccination process, according to data published by the CDC.

In particular, a new daily record was broken last Friday with the vaccination of more than 4 million people.

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Brazil, data finally decreasing

Yesterday, Brazil recorded another 1,319 deaths and 28,645 infections from Covid.

With these numbers, the country has reached 13,013,601 confirmed infections and 332,752 victims since the beginning of the pandemic.

The numbers are down compared to the last two Mondays in which 1,383 and 1,660 deaths were recorded.

However, these data must be considered with caution as during the holidays there are often delays in communications by the health administrations.

The averages of the last seven days of deaths and infections however decreased, reaching 2,698 and 62,855 respectively.

The state of São Paulo continues to account for the majority of contamination (2,532,047) and total victims (77,165).

in terms of mortality, in second place is the state of Rio de Janeiro (37,693), followed by Minas Gerais (25,713), Rio Grande do Sul (20,600) and Paraná (17,405). (1,159,039), Rio Grande do Sul (860,924) and Paraná (860,424).

However, the state of Rio de Janeiro is the one with the highest mortality rate, with 5.7%, followed by Pernambuco (3.5%), Amazonas (3.4%) and São Paulo (3%).

The national average, in turn, went from 2.5% to 2.6%.

India, contagions in strong growth

After a long period of sharp decline in both infections and deaths from Covid, in India the disease now seems to have resumed a decidedly upward curve with over 100 thousand infections recorded on Monday, which represent a decidedly worrying peak at which it has followed by today's data, which is also extremely heavy, 96,982 infections, for a total of 12,686,049 cases since the onset of the disease, including 165,547 deaths.

To cope with the new spread of the virus, the Indian state of Maharashtra and the province of Delhi have asked the central government to lower the age limit for those who can take the vaccine, so far administered to those over 45.

In particular, the request is to inject the vaccine also to school age groups, considered those that most create new outbreaks.

The numbers of the pandemic according to WHO and Jojns Hopkins University

1,453,621 infections and 21,897 deaths.

This is the incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide in the last 72 hours, from 6.30 on Friday morning to the same time today according to the authoritative database of Johns Hopkins University.

Overall, since the onset of the disease, the disease has caused 131,715,671 infections worldwide, of which at least 2,860,092 proved fatal.

For its part, in the 24 hours between 6.30 pm on Sunday and the same time as yesterday, the WHO documented 510,365 infections and 10,173 deaths from Covid.

North and South America account for approximately 34% of the count of these new infections (177,098).

Followed by Europe (169,858) and Southeast Asia (103,810).

At the level of individual countries, the United States remains by far the most affected nation in the world and has now passed the threshold of 550 thousand deaths (555,597) out of over 30 million infections (30,784,405).

In terms of infections, the ranking (limited to the 14 nations that have exceeded two million cases, nine of which are now over three million) continues with Brazil (13.01 million cases) then with India (12, 58), France (4.89) which precedes Russia (4.58). In sixth place is Great Britain (4.37), then Italy (3.67), Turkey (3.52), Spain (3.31). The dramatic list continues with Germany (2.90), Colombia (2.45), Poland (2.44) Argentina (2.40), and Mexico (2.25).

As for the data relating to mortality, Brazil always ranks second behind the US with 332,752 (of which 4,546 from Friday to today). The tragic ranking continues with Mexico (204.399), then with India (165.101) while in fifth position is Great Britain, (127.106) followed by Italy (111.326) then Russia which passed the 100 thousand deaths on 4 April total (100,374, data updated to Sunday), France (97,005) and Germany (77,136).