Covid. India under 30,000 cases for the first time in 4 months, over 550,000 deaths in Brazil

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  Travel restrictions remain

• Coronavirus, 3,117 new cases with 88,247 swabs and 22 deaths

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July 27, 2021 According to the latest Johns Hopkins University

tally, there

are

194,685,302 total cases

of coronavirus infection in the world since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 522,113 in 24 hours. The

deaths

since yesterday have risen by 8,065 units, for a total of

4,167,173

. 

New cases daily

The countries with the highest number of new cases in 24 hours are the United States (89,297), Spain (61,625), Iran (31,814), India (29,689), Indonesia (28,228), United Kingdom (24,932), Russia ( 22,678), Brazil (18,999) and Turkey (16,809).

Total cases

The countries reporting the highest number of total cases are the United States (34,533,058), India (31,411,262), Brazil (19,707,662), Russia (6,071,893), France (6,061,802), United Kingdom ( 5,748,331), Turkey (5,618,417), Argentina (4,859,170), Colombia (4,736,349), Spain (4,342,054), Italy (4,320,530), Germany (3,764,441), Iran (3,723 .246) and Indonesia (3,194,733).

All the updated data in the world and in Italy

India under 30 thousand infections in 24 hours

India has registered 29,689 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, falling below the threshold of 30,000 infections for the first time in the last four months. This was announced by local authorities, quoted by the Indian press. The victims related to Covid, since yesterday, are 415. The overall toll of the pandemic in the country is now over 31 million and 440 thousand infections and more than 421 thousand victims.

Brazil exceeds 550 thousand dead

Brazil has recorded 18,999 new cases and 578 deaths associated with covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to more than 550,000, according to the National Council of Health Secretariats (Conass). From the first infection, on February 26, 2020, and the first death, on March 12 of the same year, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 19,707,662 confirmed cases and 550,502 deaths. However, the weekend and Monday epidemiological bulletins tend to show lower figures than on other days due to lack of counts in some municipalities due to a shortage of administrative staff. Regional governments indicated that between Sunday and Monday there was a slight increase in the number of infected people (+ 4.28%) and in daily deaths (21.4%), compared to the previous 24 hours.

Brazil, one of the three countries in the world most affected by the covid-19 pandemic in absolute numbers together with the United States and India, has a death rate of 262 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and an incidence of 9,368 people infected in the same proportion.

British hospitals under pressure

The British National Health Service (NHS) is under the same pressure as it was at the height of the pandemic in January and things will get worse before they get better: it is the health alarm reported by the Guardian. In a letter to Boris Johnson, ministers and NHS England CEO Sir Simon Stevens, the NHS Providers group says the health service is facing a combination of pressure. "This combination means that many CEOs are saying that the general level of pressure they are experiencing now is, albeit very different in form, similar to the pressure they saw in January of this year, when the NHS was under the most. great pressure in a generation ".

The letter calls on the government to make "the right decisions" over the next month as it finalizes NHS funding for the second half of the financial year. Among the things that put pressure on the system, rushing "at full speed" to address the backlog of care across the hospital, mental health and community services; and record levels of demand for urgent and emergency care. The letter also points to increasing hospital admissions for Covid-19 alongside more cases of Long Covid and people suffering from poor mental health. Enhanced infection control measures are in place in hospitals, leading to "significant capacity loss" and increasing numbers of health workers who are ill, in self-isolation or suffering from accumulated stress.

In Tokyo 7 new cases related to the Games

The organizers of the games reported seven new coronavirus cases at the Tokyo Olympics, bringing the total number of infections from July 1 to 155. The number includes two athletes, one of them a Dutch tennis player, organizers explained. The total number of positive athletes thus rises to 18. Dutch men's doubles tennis players Jean-Julien Rojer and teammate Wesley Koolhof withdrew from the Olympics on Monday after Rojer became the sixth Dutch athlete to test positive for covid-19. According to the organizers, the two athletes both lived in the village. The others are three game-related officials, a contractor and a member of the organizing committee. Of the seven, five were from abroad, they said, adding that 37.579 people from foreign countries entered Japan for the games. The number of covid-19 infections, drawn up by the organizers from 1 July, excludes those announced by central and local governments.

In China 71 infections

China records 71 ​​new infections from Covid-19, up from 76 yesterday, a record since January, and confirms the presence of the delta variant of the virus in Nanjing, where the latest outbreak of infection broke out. There are 31 infections that have developed locally, down from 40 recorded yesterday, according to what was confirmed by the National Health Commission and they all developed in the eastern province of Jiangsu, of which Nanjing is the capital. Local authorities confirmed today that the delta variant of the coronavirus, with the highest transmissibility, has been detected in the city, which has 112 infections since the emergence of the outbreak: a second round of swabs of its 9.3 million is underway in Nanjing of residents, while a third round of tests has already started in the areas most exposed to the infection.Currently there are four areas at high risk of contagion in the city, while more than thirty are at medium risk, with an increase in social distancing measures. Asymptomatic cases in the country decrease compared to yesterday, which China does not count among the confirmed infections, passing from 24 to 20. In total, since the beginning of the epidemic, the infections from Covid-19 in China are 92,676, while the deaths remain stationary at 4,636.