Paris, France.
coronavirus killed more than 18,000 people in the world in the last 24 hours, A record, while the new British and South African strains continue them unstoppable expansion.
On the open front of vaccine, The hope of many to stop epidemic, the British AstraZeneca was involved on Wednesday in this tense dispute with European Union (EU).
Every day the situation it gets worse: The number contagion in the world has surpassed 100 million and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Wednesday, the new variants of virus keep going spread. British is already present in 70 countries and South African, at 31 years old.
In addition, they registered on Tuesday 18,109 deaths on the planet, a record since the pandemic broke out covid-19, according to a number carried out on Wednesday by AFP from the official balance sheets.
The figure confirms a trend observed since the beginning of the month: mortality accelerates, thresholds dDaily deaths they are overtaken faster and the curve is flattened in number each time superior (average, 14,000 deaths daily from January 22, against 10,000 at the end of November).
In total, covid-19 left 2.16 million dead in the world. Europe and America Latin and the Caribbean are the two most affected regions of the world, with 713,000 and 580,000 deaths, respectively. Nationally, US It is the country with the highest number of deaths (425,227), followed by Brazil (218,878), India (153,724), Mexico (152,016) and the United Kingdom (100,162).
This situation is under the control of governments around the world.
to UK, the government has announced the imposition of a hotel quarantine for British residents arriving in the country from a country considered endangered; a stay that will have to paid out of pocket.
This measure will affect travelers from 22 countries such as South Africa, Portugal and South American countries. In fact, arrivals on British territory in those countries, where variants of whatViruses “present a risk”, are already banned from all visitors who do not live inl United Kingdom.
Those passengers will be “taken directly” from from the airport to the hotel, said Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“Non-essential travel”
In the meantime, Finland, which is relatively unaffected by the pandemic, has announced that it will tighten border restrictions, banning “non-essential” travel on its territory.
Norway has taken a similar measure, closing its borders to almost all non-residents.
Argentine, In turn, it forced airlines to reduce the frequency of flights to and from Europe, the United States, Brazil and Mexico, after the country recorded an increase in deaths and infections.
Peru has extended the status of emergency it has been in force for 10 months, while the second wave of the pandemic forced the government to do so limits Lima and eight regions (16.4 million inhabitants, half of the national population) since Sunday.
Into the France, The government said on Wednesday it was studying various scenarios to try to stop the advance covid-19, ca a new “very strict” closure, as the current curfew, starting at 18:00, does not appear to be effective.
More directly, Slovakia has decided to step up its closure, demanding negative tests from citizens in order to leave their homes.
Tensions with AstraZeneca
Instead, Moscow He again relaxed on Wednesday the restrictions that have been in place for months, claiming that infections are low, despite the fact that the city is not limited. bars, restaurants and nightclubs They can open after 23:00.
In the middle of this gloomy panorama, all hopes are based on the massive campaign of vaccination, which however leads to tensions between governments, population and producers.
So, European Union raised his voice on Wednesday in his controversy with the British laboratory AstraZeneca due to delays in the delivery of vaccines, urging the plants that the producer has in UK to share your production.
According to the president AstraZenecaPascal Soriot, the production of British plant vaccines is reserved for the United Kingdom, under an agreement with London three months before the contract was signed with the EU, but Brussels lor reject.
Now, the EU claims that AstraZeneca delivers COVID-19 vaccines produced in two factories located in UK, while the group only intends to deliver “a quarter” of the promised doses.
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Exact, Chile approved the vaccine in that laboratory on Wednesday, from which it is expected to receive 6 million doses, after authorizing the use Pfizer immunizer (USA) and Sinovac (China).
So far, at least 79.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine even 69 countries or territories, according to an AFP number, on Wednesday at 11:00 GMT.
One above the other, vaccination remains a privilege of high-income countries (according to the parameters of the World Bank), which concentrates 62% of the injected doses in the world, while only 16% of the world’s population lives in them.