Record of deaths in Argentina, intensive care alarm in Japan

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06 May 2021 Until this morning, the Covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 155,203,522 infections and 3,241,853 deaths in the world. This can be seen by increasing the data of the last 24 hours reported by the authoritative database of Johns Hopkins University with those recently made public by the Indian health authorities, which in the same period recorded 412,262 new infections and 3,980 deaths. According to the latest available budget from the WHO, relating to the 24 hours between 6 pm on Tuesday and the same time yesterday, the number of new infections from Covid on the planet was equal to 721,398 while deaths increased by 11,491 unit. WHO statistics take into account only officially confirmed data on incidence and deaths presented by states. Over 55% of infections reported toWHO in the reference 24 hours occurred in Southeast Asia (400,973), followed by Europe (132,915), with North and South America (123,717) in third place. 

In Japan, hospitals under stress and full intensive care

Healthcare system under stress in Japan: ICUs are full with over 1,100 beds occupied. The government evaluates a possible third state of emergency. Hospitals in Japan's Osaka Prefecture no longer have empty beds available for seriously ill Covid-19 patients, according to government data. Osaka's bed occupancy rate for severe coronavirus patients reached 103% yesterday, according to data published on the local government website. The bed occupancy rate for mild and moderate cases is 82.4%. To cope with the growing number of cases, the government opened two waiting centers in April with ventilators for patients who called ambulances but could not be admitted due to lack of beds.Authorities have also asked neighboring prefectures to accept patients with severe symptoms to relieve Osaka's burden, but so far only Shiga prefecture has participated. They only accepted one patient. Osaka authorities said 13,992 Covid patients remain at home while 2,958 are waiting to be hospitalized or isolated in hotel rooms.

In India almost 4 thousand deaths in a single day

India records a sad record of

almost 4

thousand deaths in one day for Covid-19, with 3,980 victims. The number of new infections ascertained is also very high at 412,262. The toll since the beginning of the epidemic in India thus rises to 230,168 deaths and 21.1 million confirmed infections. The new 'blaze' comes when the authorities began to hope for an improvement: after the 402,000 cases of last Friday, in the following days there had been a slight decline up to around 357,000 confirmed cases on Tuesday. Since March, the new wave has overwhelmed the country and brought the health system to collapse and severe scarcity of oxygen and machinery, to counter which international aid has arrived and continues to be delivered.

Record of deaths in Argentina

Argentina has recorded a new record of deaths for a single day related to the pandemic from Covid-19. In fact, from the latest report by the health authorities, it emerged that 663 deaths have been recorded in the 24 hours just passed, for a general total since the beginning of the pandemic which rose to 65,865. High, albeit in the average of the last few weeks, the infections. There were 24,079, and brought the balance to a positive 3,071,496, of which 271,166 are active. However, there is concern at the government level about the arrival of the cold season, especially since the flow of vaccines continues to be uncertain and not easily programmable. Buenos Aires has so far aimed at the use of Russian (Sputnik V), Chinese (Sinopharm) and Indian (Covishield under license AstraZeneca) vaccines, but thesupply continues to be far below needs. Also contributing to this relative crisis is the fact that the Covax system of the World Health Organization (WHO) is not working as it should. Finally, the Argentine Public Observatory of Vaccinations has announced that the doses used so far have been 8,533,232, of which 7,364,147 for the immunization of people with one dose and 1,169,085 with both, while the vaccines distributed have been 10,757,071.147 for the immunization of people with one dose and 1,169,085 with both, while the vaccines distributed were 10,757,071.147 for the immunization of people with one dose and 1,169,085 with both, while the vaccines distributed were 10,757,071.

In the US 45 thousand new cases and over 800 deaths

There are 45,074 new Covid cases in the United States in 24 hours, with 846 deaths. The US has reached 32,555,496 confirmed cases and 579,249 deaths, according to the independent count of Johns Hopkins University. California is the most affected state by the pandemic with 62,066 deaths, followed by New York (52,538), Texas (50,471), Florida (35,478), Pennsylvania (26,349), New Jersey (25,707) and Illinois (24,443). Other states with high death tolls include Georgia (20,273), Ohio (19,344), Michigan (19,100), Massachusetts (17,658), and Arizona (17,360). The provisional death toll (579,249) far exceeds the lower limit of the White House's initial estimates, which at best predicted between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic. US President Joe Biden has predicted that a total of over 600.000 people in the country will die from the virus. As for vaccines, approximately 148.5 million people (44.7% of the population) received at least one dose, of which 107.3 million (32.3%) also booster, according to the Centers for Disease Control. and Prevention (CDC).

In Brazil 2,811 deaths and 73,295 new positives

There are 2,811 deaths and 73,295 new cases of Covid recorded in Brazil. Overall, therefore, the South American country records a total of 14,930,183 positives and 414,399 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Brazil is the second country in the world with the highest number of deaths from Covid-19 after the United States (572,190), and the third with the highest number of infected, after the United States (32.1 million) and India (20, 6 million), according to data provided by the World Health Organization.