The world has the worst number of deaths a day from coronavirus

Daily mortality caused by the action of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has reported the worst pandemic data to date, with 15,000 deaths from covid-19 disease in the past 24 hours, while several countries around the world are already implementing plans. aggressive vaccination.

For the World Health Organization (WHO), which reported the number at the traditional daily press conference in Geneva (Switzerland), it is a record figure that places the total number of deaths due to the pandemic at 1.9 million.

The health entity of the United Nations system also stated that 800,000 new infections of the pathogen have been registered, one of the highest daily figures in more than a year of health crisis and which leaves the overall total at 87 , 5 million.

In turn, the figures given by Johns Hopkins University tend to be closer to those of the WHO, as they record that in the same period of time 14,858 people lost their lives due to COVID-19, while 812,212 infections occurred.

According to the WHO report, in Europe, with a cumulative number of 28 million cases and 622,000 deaths and which recorded 273,000 cases and 6,000 deaths between Friday and Saturday, there is no evidence of a clear recovery compared to previous weeks.

America is the most worrying in all lines of the pandemic. On the same day, 440,000 positive diagnoses and 7,800 deaths were added, bringing the continent to 38 million infections and more than 900,000 deaths in more than a year of pandemic.

Most experts conclude that the holidays, in which Christmas holidays were held without respecting social distance, the use of a mask and hand washing, are reported in the increase in hospital admissions, which makes the systems, especially in Latin America, collapse.

The United States remains the most affected country, with 21 million cases, followed by India (10 million) and Brazil, which reported a record number of daily cases last day (62,000, leaving more than 8 million infected).

The United Kingdom, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson again decreed a strict quarantine on January 4 in the face of exponential growth in cases and deaths, maintains a positive growth curve at a steady increase of 2.9 million, while Russia goes in the opposite direction with an accumulation of 3.3 million.

In France (2.7 million infections), Italy (2.2 million) and Spain (2 million), the daily positive curve is rising again, but has not yet reached November highs.

Germany (1.8 million cases in total) shows some stabilization after weeks of strong growth, while Colombia continues to record record daily figures and has 1.7 million positives.

South Africa “leads” on its continent

Although Africa is one of the continents that has been least affected by the impact of the pandemic, health authorities are anxiously looking at the rise in infections and deaths, which have already reached 3 million and 72,000, respectively, across the continent, according to Johns Hopkins University.

But 40.3% of all cases on the continent and 32,824 deaths are recorded in a single country: South Africa.

“The number of cases has risen rapidly in recent weeks, as we have declined and people have begun to move,” John Nkengasong, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Africa, told Efe today.

South Africa is facing a second wave of more aggressive, partly due to the presence of the coronavirus variant N501Y, which is more transmissible and is behind the more than 110,000 infections recorded in the last week.

South Africa is followed by Morocco, with about half a million infections, Tunisia (almost 155,000), Egypt (147,810) and Ethiopia (127,572).

The royal vaccination and the death of the papal doctor

In the midst of total closure in the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip of Edinburgh, received the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine on Saturday.

The 94-year-old sovereign and the 99-year-old duke were vaccinated by a royal doctor at their residence in Windsor Castle, outside London.

Elsewhere in Europe, the Vatican reported that Fabrizzio Socorsi, Pope Francis’ personal physician, had died of COVID-19.

Soccorsi, 78, was hospitalized at Gemelli Hospital for cancer and was chosen as a personal physician by Francisco in 2015, when he was a consultant in the Vatican’s Health and Hygiene Directorate and director emeritus of Hepatology at the Hospital. St. Camilo of Rome.

On January 2, the Vatican announced that it will begin the coronavirus vaccination campaign predictably in the middle of the month and will have priority public health and safety personnel, the elderly and workers in contact with the public.

Controversial party in Chile

A clandestine party in a mansion on the coast of Chile, attended by young people from wealthy families, is generating great controversy for ending without detainees, unlike other illegal gatherings that ended this week with dozens of arrests.

In the last few hours, a video and audio of young people who recently met in a house in the exclusive resort of Cachagua, 180 kilometers northwest of Santiago, have circulated through social networks, to drink and dance without a mask. or social distance.

Among the participants were children of deputies and businessmen from the richest neighborhoods in Santiago, graduates of the best schools in the country, according to local media.

There are already 20 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 among participants in that party, and the Ministry of Health is investigating the possibility of carriers with the British strain, characterized by its greater aggressiveness in contagion. EFE