Paris, France.
The coronavirus more than killed 18,000 people in the world last 24 hours, a Listing, while the new British and South African species they continue their unstoppable expansion.
On the open front through the vaccine, hope of many to the epidemic, the British AstraZeneca was stuck in a tense dispute with the on Wednesday European Union (EU).
Every day the situation worsens more: The number of infections in the world 100 million and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday, the new variants of the virus continue to spread. The British is already present in 70 countries and the South-African, at 31.
In addition, they signed up on Tuesday 18,109 dead on the planet, a Listing since the outbreak of the pandemic COVID-19, according to a count conducted by the AFP on Wednesday based on official balance sheets.
The figure confirms a trend observed since the beginning of the month: the mortality accelerates, thresholds de daily deaths are overcome more quickly and the curve is smoothed in numbers each time higher (average, 14,000 deaths a day since January 22 to 10,000 at the end of November).
In total, the COVID-19 it left 2.16 million dead in the world. Europe and America Latina and the Caribbean are the two most affected regions of the world, with 713,000 and 580,000 deaths respectively. On national level U.S It is the country that recorded the most deaths (425,227), followed by Brazil (218,878), India (153,724), Mexico (152016) and the United Kingdom (100162).
This situation is under control of governments around the world.
Bee UKthe government announced the establishment of a quarantine in hotels for UK residents entering the country from a country considered at risk; a stay that will have to paid out of pocket.
This measure affects travelers from 22 countries such as South Africa, Portugal and countries in South America. In fact, arriving on British territory from those countries, where variants of whats viruses “pose a risk”, are already banned for all visitors not in itl United Kingdom.
Those travelers will be “straight” from the airport to hotelPrime Minister Boris Johnson said.
“Non-Essential Travel”
Meanwhile, relatively unaffected by the pandemic, Finland has announced that it will tighten its border restrictions, banning “non-essential” travel in its territory.
Norway took a similar measure, closing its borders to almost all non-residents.
Argentina, For its part, it forced airlines to reduce the frequency of flights to and from Europe, the United States, Brazil and Mexico, after the country registered an increase in deaths and infections.
Peru extended its status until February 28 emergency that has been in effect for 10 months, while the second wave of the pandemic forced the government to do so limiting lima and eight regions (16.4 million inhabitants, half the national population) as of Sunday.
In France, The government said on Wednesday that it was studying various scenarios to try and reverse the advance of the COVID-19, like a new “very strict” confinement, as the current curfew, from 6pm, does not appear to be effective.
More directly, Slovakia decided to intensify its incarceration and demanded negative tests from civilians so that they could leave their homes.
Tensions with AstraZeneca
Instead, Moscow He again relaxed restrictions that have been in place for months on Wednesday, claiming infections are reduced despite the city being unrestricted. The bars, restaurants and night clubs They can open after 11pm.
In the middle of this gloomy panorama, all hope is pinned on the massive campaign of vaccination, which nevertheless leads to tensions between governments, population and manufacturers.
So the European Union set the tone in the controversy with the British laboratory on Wednesday AstraZeneca due to delays in the delivery of vaccines, insist on the plants that the manufacturer has in the UK to share your production.
According to the president of AstraZeneca, Pascal Soriot, the production of vaccines from British factories is reserved for the United Kingdom, under an agreement reached three months before the signing of the EU contract with London, but Brussels lor reject.
Now the EU claims that AstraZeneca supplies COVID-19 vaccines produced at two plants in the UK, while the group only plans to make “a quarter” of the promised doses.
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Exactly, Chili approved that lab’s vaccine on Wednesday, which it expects to receive 6 million doses, after authorizing the use of the Pfizer Immunizer (USA) and Sinovac (China).
At least until now 79.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine at least 69 countries or territories, according to an AFP count this Wednesday at 11am GMT.
All in all it is vaccination remains a privilege of the high-income countries (according to the parameters of the World Bank), which concentrate 62% of the injected doses in the world, while only 16% of the world’s population lives in it.