As of Feb. 17, the number of people infected with the CCP virus worldwide exceeded 110 million, with more than 2.43 million deaths, except for mainland China, to see a set of Epidemic updates.
According to the latest statistics released by the World health Organization, the number of newly notified cases worldwide last week was 2.7 million, a significant drop of 16% from the previous week, and 81,000 new deaths, also down 10% from the previous week. However, the number of countries with Variant viruses continues to increase, with the number of countries where the UK variant was found increasing to 94, and the number of countries where the South African and Brazilian variants were found reaching 46 and 21 respectively.
The UK added 12,718 confirmed cases and 738 deaths on Wednesday, and the overall national infection rate has fallen to its lowest level since early October last year. Prime Minister Johnson said again the same day that he would present a prudent plan for unblocking next Monday so that Britain would not fall back into a blockade because of the outbreak.
British Prime Minister Johnson: “(The plan) will be firmly based on a cautious and deliberate approach to lifting the embargo so that we don’t go back and we go down a one-way street from now on.”
South Africa, the country with the worst outbreak in Africa, began a universal vaccination program Wednesday, with President Cyril Ramaphosa and some health care workers among the first to be vaccinated. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been switched to Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine because studies have shown its effectiveness against South Africa’s variant of the virus is extremely limited. As of Wednesday, the number of infected people in South Africa was approaching 1.5 million, with more than 48,000 deaths, almost half of all deaths in Africa.
South Korea added 621 confirmed cases Wednesday, bringing the number of deaths down to four. Authorities plan to vaccinate nearly 46 million people against the Chinese communist virus by November of this year in a bid to achieve the goal of herd immunity, but the president of the Korean Medical Association believes the government has set an impossible target.
Japan’s insistence on hosting the Olympics in the midst of an epidemic has now run into new problems, with the upcoming torch relay in March being boycotted in some areas. Shimane Prefecture has once again made clear its opposition to hosting the Olympics. According to the plan, the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics will start from Fukushima on March 25, passing through all 47 prefectures and taking 121 days to reach the capital Tokyo.
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