The "World Health" announced that the mutated Delta strain of the Corona virus is present in more than 100 countries and that it may spread to the world soon, as Japan tightened emergency measures in Tokyo, and France may join it, at a time when Britain is heading to ease restrictions.
The organization said that the Delta strain of Corona is currently present in more than 104 countries, adding, "We expect it to spread in the world soon."
In Japan, health emergency measures began to be implemented in Tokyo due to the increase in the number of Corona virus infections to about 900 cases per day, one third of which are from the mutated Delta strain.
The medical committee responsible for confronting the pandemic expects that this "most dangerous" strain will constitute about 75% of infections by the end of this month.
The imposition of the fourth health emergency in Japan since the beginning of the pandemic, comes at a time when Tokyo is preparing for the opening of the Olympic Games.
The Ministry of Health had said that it would finish vaccinating people over the age of 65 at the end of this month, bringing the total vaccinated to about 40 million.
Metro stations in Bangkok closed as restrictions tighten (Anatolia)
Vaccination Procedure
Today, Somya Swaminathan, chief scientist at the World Health Organization, warned against combining vaccines produced by different companies, describing this trend as "dangerous" because there is not much data available on the impact on health.
"It will be chaotic in countries if citizens start deciding when to take a second, third and fourth dose, and who receives it," she said during an online briefing.
An increasing number of countries are forcing residents and citizens to receive a vaccine against the Corona virus, as Tajikistan and Turkmenistan recently joined them.
Some governments have previously obligated residents in certain regions to receive the vaccine, as well as workers in some sectors such as health personnel, such as Italy, Britain, Russia, Kazakhstan and the Fiji Islands.
In the United States, the city of San Francisco announced last month that it would compel police and firefighters to receive the vaccine, while more than 150 workers were dismissed in one of the largest Texas hospitals after refusing to receive the vaccine.
In other countries, receiving the vaccine will be mandatory to enter public administrations, private institutions, and several facilities, such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to announce this evening measures to stop the spread of the Delta strain, and may make the vaccination of medical practitioners mandatory.
As for the British Minister of Health, he said today, “It is time to return to normal life and gradually lift the restrictions imposed due to Corona.”
At a time when Taiwan is facing severe difficulties in securing vaccines for its people, the Taiwanese technology giants "Foxconn" and "TSMC" announced that each of them will provide 5 million doses to the government.
The International Kovacs Mechanism will receive 110 million doses of the vaccine from the Chinese companies Sinovac and Sinopharm, to make way for the global distribution system to confront dose shortages at the height of the epidemic, as announced Monday by the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi).
Life is starting to return to normal in London (Reuters)
global developments
On the other hand, Australia announced a new rise in the number of injuries, as Sydney recorded 112 injuries, a record despite the closure witnessed by the city that entered its third week.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the holding of an extraordinary meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) on Friday to improve the response of countries in the region to the pandemic.
And the Thai authorities imposed a stone on more than 10 million people in the capital, Bangkok.
In Algeria, a government official warned that hospitals in the capital would reach their maximum capacity, denouncing the government's "inaction" in the face of non-implementation of precautionary measures.
On the other hand, rates of HIV infection among Iraqis have increased since the beginning of this month, after it was between 4-5 thousand, to become about 8 thousand cases per day, according to a report by the Ministry of Health.
It reached its peak (9,189 injuries) on the eighth of this month.
Sarmad Al-Qarlousi, the chief physician of Al-Kindi Hospital in Baghdad, said, "We are on the verge of an epidemic disaster. We have entered the third wave. We must be prepared for it by adhering to the instructions."
The Corona virus has killed 4 million and 35,000 people in the world so far, including more than 607,000 in the United States, 533,000 in Brazil, and 408,000 in India.