The number of patients with new coronavirus infections in French intensive care units increased significantly on Monday, and the situation in the Paris region became critical again, with some hospitals in the Paris region canceling non-emergency surgeries to cope with the influx of patients with new coronavirus pneumonia; while the number of new cases in the United Kingdom fell below 5,000 in a single day, the lowest since the end of September last year; and the number of deaths from new coronavirus infections in Italy exceeded 100,000. The CDC said that people who have been vaccinated can gather indoors without masks.
AFP reported that according to the latest statistics from the French Ministry of health, 381 new patients were seriously ill in France on Monday, bringing the total number of cases to 3,849. The number of seriously ill patients has been climbing since early January, when the number fell below 2,600. Aurélien Rousseau, director of the Paris regional health authority, said the Paris region is “in a very tense situation. The health authority had to order major hospitals in the Paris region to reduce non-essential surgeries by 40%, among other things, to cope with the influx of new coronary pneumonia patients. The French Ministry of Health reported on Monday evening that there were 5,327 new confirmed cases and 360 new deaths. The number of people who received the first dose of vaccine in France reached 3,978,000.
According to data released by the British government on Monday, the number of new confirmed cases in the United Kingdom decreased from 5,177 the day before to 4,712, the lowest point since September 28 last year.
The British government pointed out that 22,377,255 people have received the first dose of vaccine throughout the UK, exceeding the 22,213,112 people the previous day.
However, British Prime Minister Johnson said the recent outbreak data is positive, but people still have to be cautious to guard against a resurgence of infections. Johnson said at a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday that recent signs are encouraging, but last summer, there were many fewer confirmed cases than there are now, but then cases rose.
The UK implemented a “roadmap” on Monday to ease restrictions on The prevention of the disease, and elementary school children can return to school, but to strengthen testing.
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus in Italy exceeded 100,000. The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 318 new deaths were recorded, making the total number of deaths 100,103, making it the seventh country in the world where the number of deaths from infection exceeded 100,000.
Italy added 13,902 confirmed cases on Monday, down from more than 20,000 cases on Sunday, presumably due to lower testing during the weekend. Another 687 new patients were hospitalized, up from more than 400 on Sunday, and the number of seriously ill rose to 2,700. Prime Minister Mario Draghi acknowledged that the situation has worsened and that the government will significantly strengthen the vaccination program.
It was also reported that the CDC issued new instructions that fully vaccinated people can meet indoors in small gatherings with others who have been vaccinated, without masks. Under the new guidelines, vaccinated individuals may also visit another household with a non-vaccinated person who is at low risk of infection without wearing a mask.
To date, approximately 30 million people, or 9.2 percent of the U.S. population, have received vaccines from Pfizer, Modena and Johnson & Johnson. Nearly 18 percent of the population, or 58.9 million adults, have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
According to Johns Hopkins University data, the U.S. remains the worst country in the world for the outbreak, with 28,988,762 cumulative confirmed cases and a cumulative total of 524,979 deaths. New confirmed diagnoses in the U.S. fell 12 percent last week, while vaccination efforts accelerated to 2.2 million doses per day.
Reuters reported that new cases in the United States fell for eight consecutive weeks until the week of the 7th of this month, an average of 60,000 new cases per day confirmed, and 11,800 deaths last week, down 18%, the lowest since the end of November last year, with an average of 1,686 deaths per day.
CDC data show that about 28 million people in the U.S., or 8 percent of the population, are currently vaccinated.
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