This strain of COVID-19 has become quite dominant in the United Kingdom
A health worker gives a Covid-19 vaccine to a baseball fan at Guaranteed Rate Field before the start of the Chicago White Sox game against the Toronto Blue Jays, on Tuesday. Pic/AFP
US President Joe Biden and the country’s top medical expert Anthony Fauci have warned about the highly infectious Delta variant that was first found in India, and which has become the dominant strain in the United Kingdom (UK).
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The Delta variant now accounts for more than 6 per cent of the cases being sequenced in the US, said Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and an adviser. The actual number is expected to be higher, as the US is running the genetic sequence on a fraction of cases. In the UK it accounts for at least an estimated 60 per cent of new cases. It’s now more prevalent than the Alpha strain, formerly called the B.1.1.7, which was first identified in the UK, and transmission is peaking in people between the ages of 12 and 20, he said in a press briefing. “In the UK, the Delta variant is rapidly emerging as the dominant variant. It is replacing the B.1.1.7,” Fauci said. “We cannot let that happen in the United States,” he told CNBC. Text: NDTV
Africa far behind in global vax race
In the global race to vaccinate people against Covid-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks. In South Africa, which has the continent’s most robust economy and its biggest Coronavirus caseload, just 0.8 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated, according to a worldwide tracker kept by Johns Hopkins University. And hundreds of thousands of the country’s health workers are still waiting for their shots.
Maldives President extends Covid curbs by a week
Maldivian President Ibrahim Solih said that his country’s ongoing restrictions to contain the Covid-19 pandemic will be extended by one week. Solih said that the anti-epidemic measures, such as a curfew between 4 pm and 8 am local time and a ban on traveling outdoors without a police permit, will be extended by another week.
Pak claims to have curbed third wave
Pakistan has completed administering 10 million (1 crore) anti-Coronavirus vaccinations on Wednesday and claimed to have successfully contained the third wave of the pandemic. Pakistan has been witnessing the third wave of Coronavirus which saw a tremendous surge in the number of infections across the country, leading to deaths in all age groups.
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27,51,73
No. of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours
17,40,82,010
Total no. of cases worldwide
37,49,754
Total no. of deaths worldwide
Source: WHO/Johns Hopkins
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