Coronavirus, USA exceed 450 thousand deaths. Uk, “in the world there are 4 thousand variants”. Cdc: “The deadliest English one”

And the country which recorded the highest death toll in the world. A number that has so far exceeded 450mila deaths. The sad record is of the United States, which number 450,681 victims of the Covid against a total of 26,554,792 cases of contagion. Nearly half of the people globally who have lost their lives to the pandemic – over 1.1 million – are concentrated in just five Countries: the other four, in addition to Usa, I’m Brazil (227.563), Mexico (161.240), India (154.703) e UK (109.547).

As the world comes to terms with the advance of mutations – in particular the English, South African and Brazilian ones – Nadhim Zahawi, the British government undersecretary in charge of the vaccination campaign, said there are about 4,000 variants of the virus and all producers, including Pfizer e AstraZeneca, they are attempting to improve their vaccines to ensure immunity even against newer versions of the Covid-19. Per Zahawi, “It is very unlikely” that current vaccines will not be effective against current variants of the virus, “especially when it comes to severe cases and hospitalizations “. Come on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US federal agency for disease prevention, explain that the so-called English variate of the coronavirus, also known as ‘B.1.1.7’, is more deadly than the original strain of the virus. The same conclusion reached by the UK.

Cdc: “Less forgiving variants if anti-Covid regulations are not respected” – “We know some of the variants have greater transmissibility, the data is increasing according to which some of the variants, the variant B.1.1.7 can actually lead to an increase in mortality “, explained the director of the Cdc Rochelle Walensky stressing that the effectiveness of “these vaccines against these variants” remains to be seen. According to the data that have emerged so far, he added Walensky, people with variants of the virus typically don’t wear the mask or do not respect the spacing social. “What we do know is that (variants) are probably less forgiving when we don’t follow those guidelines,” he concluded.

Germany – 14,211 cases of coronavirus have been recorded and 786 dead in the last 24 hours. The total number of infections in the country rises to 2,252,001, while that of deaths to 59,742. “We can’t stay in this tough lockdown all winter. We cannot afford it as a company, ”said the German health minister. Jens Spahn, to the newspapers of Funke media group. We need a gradual and responsible shift towards normality, he stressed. “And we must act differently in the regions”. Spahn found that the pandemic numbers are dropping significantly: “The numbers are encouraging. The trend is clearly down, but we cannot yet know for sure where we will be on February 14th ”. There Germany is in lockdown hard since December 16, with schools, kindergartens, shops, restaurants, clubs, cultural institutions and sports centers closed. In January this regime was extended until February 14. According to data from the Robert Koch Institut published today, in Germany there were 14,211 new infections and 786 deaths in the last 24 hours. The weekly incidence index dropped to 80.7 new infections per 100 thousand inhabitants. The threshold that the government has set itself as a target is 50.

UK – The UK economy will be gradually unblocked after schools reopen in early March, he said Sky News Nadhim Zahawi, minister designated ad hoc by Boris Johnson to coordinate the country’s vaccination campaign. Zahawi confirmed that the government intends to begin reopening schools in England on March 8, adding that some of the current restrictions may be lifted at the same time. THE vaccines they will begin to be fully effective within the first week of March, the minister predicted: “So that’s then that we will begin first of all to open the schools and then we will begin a gradual reopening of the economy, if we continue to see good data ”. As is well known, Johnson plans to announce the roadmap to exit the lockdown on February 22.

France – Circulation of Covid-19 variants is on the rise writes Le Figaro, citing an interview with Bruno Lina, professor of virology of the university hospital of Lyon (HCL, Hospices civil Lyon) and member of the scientific committee of the French government. The variants concern the 14% of positive cases to the coronavirus, according to the investigation of 26 and 27 January. A spread that increases but is not “explosive”, he stressed Lina. “The increase is linear and continuous,” he added, but specifies that 20% of cases still have to be sequenced. THE results final of the survey will be made public within the day. In the latest flash poll of January 7 and 8, the English variant accounted for only 3.3% of tests.

Australia – Meanwhile, after having secured a total of 150 million doses of the anti Covid-19 vaccine, l’Australia says that by October it will vaccinate all residents. This was announced by the Minister of Health Greg Hunt, during a press conference in which it was reported that the country will have 20 million doses of the vaccine Pfizer, 53.8 million of the vaccine AstraZeneca, 51 million of Novavax and 25.5 million of the alliance vaccine Covax. “All the people living in Australia“Will be vaccinated, he assured Hunt.

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