I coronavirus cases globally have exceeded the 85 million mark: this is what emerges from the counts of Johns Hopkins University. According to the American university and contagion I am currently 85,122,080, including 1,843,135 deaths. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 47,860,306 people have healed around the world.
The United States continue to reap sad records in the pandemic, so much so that the Los Angeles funeral home runs out of coffins for the victims. On Saturday the country recorded 277,346 infections, now exceeding 20 million cases, while the deaths are over 350,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The area most devastated by the virus is that of The Angels. Hospitals are collapsing and Covid-19 casualties are increasing at such an alarming rate that funeral homes are running out of pine trees to build coffins. A funeral home in the city has even rented a 15-meter refrigerated truck to house the bodies while they wait to find a solution. “We are in crisis and the situation is desperate,” said Magda Maldonado, who manages Continental Funeral Homes. But there is also another problem and that is the shortage of pine trees for coffins. “Wood is in short supply, especially pine, which is the cheapest,” said Auriel Suarez, owner of Universal Caskets Manufacturing Corporation.
“We have vaccinated a million people, more than the rest of Europe combined”: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said so to the microphones of the TV program Andrew Marr Show, according to reports from the BBC. The UK began administering the first doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine this morning.
Meanwhile, for the sixth consecutive day, the Great Britain records over 50,000 infections from Covid-19 within 24 hours. The figure reported by the Guardian is 54,990 cases, down from the record of nearly 58,000 set on Saturday. The number of deaths is 454, a slight increase compared to 445 on Saturday, which brings the total to over 75,000 (75,024).
A case of the imported coronavirus variant was detected in Guangdong province in southern China, said the Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The individual is an 18-year-old Chinese citizen who arrived on 4 December from the UK, where he is studying. The young man, immediately quarantined, tested positive for the new coronavirus and was diagnosed as a confirmed mild Covid-19 case on December 18. Gene sequencing analysis on December 27 showed that the patient had the coronavirus variant B.1.1.7, which closely resembles the recently reported strain in the UK.
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