‘Vaccinate people to keep Covid turnaround down’

The United States US is making progress against the ongoing resurgence of the Covid19 pandemic but the country is not out of the woods yet Americarsquos top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci saidldquoWe certainly are turning the corner on this particular surgerdquo Xinhua news agency quoted Fauci also the medical advisor to the White House as saying to the ABC News on SundayldquoBut we have experienced over now close to 20 months surges that go up and then come down and then go back up again The way to keep it down to make that turnaround continue to go down is to do what we mentioned get people vaccinatedrdquo he addedldquoWhen you have 70 million people in the country who are eligible to be vaccinated who are not yet vaccinated thatrsquos the danger zone right thereldquoSo itrsquos within our capability to make sure that that turnaround that wersquore seeing that very favourable and optimistic turnaround continues to go down and doesnrsquot do what wersquove seen multiple times before where it goes down and then it comes back uprdquo Fauci saidJapanrsquos new PM looks at recovering economyFumio Kishida the leader of Japanrsquos ruling Liberal Democratic Party who was elected on Monday as the countryrsquos new Prime Minister is seeking to tackle the Covid19 pandemic while also reviving the economy with a package worth ldquotens of trillions of yenrdquo to help people and businesses suffering from the health crisisEarlier in the day the Diet or Parliament convened an extraordinary session to choose the new PM reports Xinhua news agencyNZrsquos largest city to move out of restrictionsA roadmap was announced by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday for the countryrsquos largest city to carefully move out of the current Covid19 restrictions New Zealand reported 29 new Covid Delta variant cases on Monday of which 28 were recorded in the largest city AucklandUK reports another 30439 fresh casesAnother 30439 people in the UK have tested positive for Covid19 bringing the total number of Coronavirus cases in the country to 7900680 according to official figures released Sunday The country also recorded another 43 Coronavirusrelated deaths Xinhua news agency reported75873No of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours235067647Total no of cases worldwide4804418Total no of deaths worldwideSource WHOJohns HopkinsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever