Tunisia announced, on Friday, that it recorded 205 new deaths from the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19), within 24 hours, as well as 6,787 infections.

The Tunisian Ministry of Health indicated in a statement that the total number of HIV infections rose to 533,274, including 17,214 deaths, and 424,786 cases of recovery.

Tunisia is witnessing a noticeable increase in Corona injuries, and last week, the Ministry of Health said that the country is witnessing an unprecedented epidemic wave characterized by a wide spread of alpha and delta mutated strains in most states, with an increase in the rate of injuries and deaths.


European countries joined Arab efforts to help Tunisia confront the worst epidemic crisis amid the rapid spread of the Corona virus, and Friday sent medical aid to the North African country.

Italy, Spain and Switzerland began shipping and sending medical aid to Tunisia, while France said it intends to send about one million vaccine doses and medical aid.

vaccination invitations

In a related context, US officials said Friday that the delta strain of Covid-19, which now dominates cases around the world, is driving an increase in deaths from the disease across the United States, and it occurs almost entirely for those who have not received a vaccine to prevent the disease.

The Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Willensky, said that the number of Corona virus infections in the United States increased by 70%, compared to last week.

She added that vaccines protect against death from the virus and infection with its new strains.

People queue in the rain to get the Corona vaccine in Paris (Getty Images)

For his part, Anthony Fauci, the chief medical advisor to the US President, said that people who did not receive the vaccine are more susceptible to the Delta strain.

He emphasized that vaccines provide strong protection against new strains.

In turn, the coordinator of the White House team to confront Corona, Jeff Zent, ​​said that all the deaths and injuries of Corona that were recorded recently, are for people who did not receive the vaccine.

He added that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration said that Americans who received the full Corna vaccine do not need an additional dose.

Biden and Facebook

Commenting on the disinformation campaigns that affect the effectiveness of vaccines against the Corona virus on social media platforms, US President Joe Biden said that the launchers of these campaigns are killing people and that the pandemic is only among those who have not received the vaccine.

In turn, Facebook rejected the US president's criticism, and said in a scathing statement that "the facts show that Facebook helps save lives. Point, over," stressing that "accusations that are not supported by facts will not distract our focus."

The network indicated that "more than two billion people have viewed through Facebook reliable information about Covid-19 and vaccines, more than anywhere else on the Internet."

Rising wave

Some European and Arab countries have recorded high rates of HIV infections for months, at a time when a number of them have begun easing precautionary measures.

Britain announced on Friday the highest number of new infections in one day with Covid-19 in more than 6 months, days before the government intends to ease restrictions on bars, restaurants and nightclubs that it imposed to combat the pandemic.


Official data in Britain showed that 51,870 new cases of Covid-19 were recorded, compared to 48,553 cases on Thursday, which is the highest daily toll since last January 15.

On Friday, the country recorded 49 new deaths from the disease, down from 63 deaths recorded Thursday.

The total number of deaths in Britain so far from the disease reached 128 thousand and 642 deaths

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For its part, France again recorded more than 10,000 cases of coronavirus a day, after the rapid spread of the delta strain caused a jump in new infections.

On Friday, the Ministry of Health recorded 10,908 new cases, bringing the total number of cases since the outbreak of the disease to more than 5.84 million.

The last time the daily death toll was more than 10,000 was at the end of last May.

The ministry also announced 22 new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the total to 111,451.


In turn, the Italian Ministry of Health announced that the country recorded 11 deaths related to the Corona virus on Friday, compared to 9 cases the previous day, while the number of new daily infections rose to 2898 from 2455.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic in February last year, Italy has recorded 127,851 deaths related to Covid-19, which is the second largest in Europe after Britain and the eighth in the world.

So far, the country has recorded 4.28 million cases of the disease.

For its part, Algeria recorded 1,197 cases of coronavirus, which is the largest number of infections in one day since the outbreak of the epidemic in March of last year, according to what the Ministry of Health announced Friday in its daily bulletin on the epidemiological situation in the country.

And the Ministry of Health announced that the outcome of the last 24 hours was 1,197 cases, 588 cases of recovery and 15 deaths.

The total number of deaths reached 3,910, and the number of injuries reached more than 151,000, while the number of people who recovered reached more than 104,000.

pledges

Leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries, including US President Joe Biden, Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping, pledged Friday to work to expand the participation and manufacture of COVID-19 vaccines to combat the pandemic.

The leaders, who are struggling to curb outbreaks of the delta strain around the world, said they would encourage the voluntary transfer of vaccine production technologies "on mutually agreed terms" in preparation for any future health crises.

“The pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on the peoples and economies of our region,” the leaders added in a joint statement issued after a virtual meeting chaired by New Zealand. “We will only overcome this health crisis by accelerating equitable access to safe, effective, quality-assured and affordable COVID-19 vaccines.”