Coronavirus in the world: Delta sub-variant in Israel, 70% vaccinated in Australia

• Great Britain: Delta plus variant causes 6% of infections

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October 20, 2021 According to the latest Johns Hopkins University tally, there are 241,553,899 total cases of coronavirus infection in the world since the beginning of the pandemic, of which 421,633 in 24 hours. The deaths since yesterday have risen by 7,815 units, for a total of 4,912,909.

The countries reporting the highest number of

are the United States (81,238), United Kingdom (43,628), Russia (32,835), Turkey (30,862), Germany (22,340), Ukraine (16,484), Romania (18,863), India ( 14,936), Iran (13,308).

Countries with the highest number of

are United States (45,132,148), India (34,108,996), Brazil (21,664,879), United Kingdom (8,581,278), Russia (7,936,798), Turkey (7,714,349), France (7,196,754 ), Iran (5,809,967), Argentina (5,274,766), Spain (4,990,767), Colombia (4,983,527), Italy (4,722,188), Germany (4,410,921), Indonesia (4,236,287) .

The subvariant of the Delta mutation of the coronavirus, which is alarming the UK, has been diagnosed in Israel: it was found in an 11-year-old boy, who arrived from Moldova, intercepted at the airport and placed in solitary confinement . Local authorities have made it known.

The British government is "closely monitoring" the Covid Delta sub-variant, AY4.2, suspected of being a contributing cause of the surge in infections in the United Kingdom, which in recent days has reached 50,000 new positives in 24 hours (in the last 24 hours caused over 43 thousand infections). A Downing Street spokesperson confirmed that the situation is being monitored "closely" but insisted that "there is no evidence it spreads more easily".

Australia has managed to vaccinate 70% of its population over the age of 16 with the full Covid-19 vaccine, a milestone in the government's plan to reopen the country, announced Wednesday. his Minister of Health.

Greg Hunt, who was the health minister throughout the country's health crisis, said at a press conference that the figure reached represents a "national" step towards a new phase of the pandemic. Prime Minister Scott Morrison thanked his fellow citizens for their efforts in a message posted on social media. After reaching this milestone, the country has begun to ease restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the virus, although it will prioritize fully vaccinated people over those with one or no doses.

Australia, which recently abandoned its ironclad strategy of confining populations after detecting a few cases of Covid-19, is moving forward with its vaccination campaign, which began months after other developed countries due to transport difficulties and procurement, among others. This new phase of the pandemic in Australia will make isolation orders more unlikely.

However, different jurisdictions across the country are proceeding at different rates: while New South Wales achieved 80% full vaccination over the weekend, the state of Victoria, which has had very long lockdowns, expects to hit 70%. this Thursday and will come out of quarantine the following day. One of the farthest behind is the state of Western Australia, which has been in an almost normal situation for months, and has vaccinated 55% of its population. The next target set by the national government is to reach 80% nationwide to begin the gradual reopening of its international borders, which have been closed since March 2020. Australia has accumulated around 150,000 Covid-19 infections, including more than 1,550 deaths. , since the beginning of the pandemic.

Bolivia reported 549 new cases and six deaths from Covid-19 and began voluntary vaccination with a third booster dose for people over 18 and immunization for 16 and 17-year-olds. With these data, Bolivia accumulates 18,883 deaths and 507,683 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic in March last year, while 18,883 are active cases of the disease. Several elderly people approached the vaccination points set up in the main Bolivian cities to ask for the application of the new booster dose, a procedure allowed until the end of the month. The Ministry of Health announced the day before that the measure was taken to avoid the expiration of approximately 700,000 AstraZeneca vaccines that will complete the two doses for those who received the Sinopharm, Sputnik V and Pfizer vaccines.

Although health authorities have said the third dose could be given two months after a second dose, the Bolivian Medical Association has recommended that this be done after four months. The government also announced vaccinating 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds with Pfizer stocks starting Tuesday as it awaits confirmation of the arrival of more than one million of these vaccines donated by the United States and piped through the United Nations Covax mechanism. However, bodies such as the La Paz Departmental Health Service said they had not received these components and that vaccination of children under 16 and 17 had not yet begun. The vaccination process, which began in late January, saw 3,523 administered .229 first doses and 2,767,546 second doses,while 914,396 single doses were administered. From the previous week, when the government enabled vaccination for the over 60 and chronically ill, 76,112 third doses were administered.