E.United States marked a hopeful milestone by vaccinating half of the adult population with at least one dose of A. anticovid immunizer And it will start from this Monday to vaccinate all those over 18 years old.
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The positive news from the United States, the country most affected by the pandemic in the world, comes amid the relaxation of restrictions for several European countries and the launch of a travel corridor, a “travel corridor”.bubble“without quarantine between Australia and New Zealand.
However, in countries like India, which reported a record number of daily cases, authorities are struggling to clear hospital beds and secure additional oxygen and medicines.
More than a quarter of a million new infections were counted in India on Sunday, and health workers brace themselves for further increases as millions of pilgrims attend a religious festival and generate sustained state elections large concentrations
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Starting Monday, all adults over 18 years of age will be eligible for the anticovid vaccine.
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The coronavirus has so far killed more than three million people in the world and infected at least 140 million people
The pandemic also continues to hit hard in Latin America. For example, Peru, which first surpassed the 400 dead in one day, and to Ecuador, where authorities warned that the situation is “very critical”.
Meanwhile in Argentinapushing through a wave of contagion with unprecedented numbers, the debate over physical aid in schools is tense: Buenos Aires defied a presidential decree and, with the approval of the local judiciary, will open schools on Monday.
The coronavirus has more than killed so far three million people in the world and infected at least 140 million, devastated the global economy and changed almost every aspect of everyday life since it emerged in China in December 2019.
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Meanwhile, vaccination is progressing at a very uneven pace in several countries. In the United States, 50.4 percent of those over the age of 18 have been partially immunized, while 32.5 percent have already been fully vaccinated, a figure that rises to 65.9 percent for those over the age of 65. In total more than 131.2 million people in the country were given at least one dose.
However, a wave of new cases every day led America’s most renowned medical scientist, Anthony Fauci, to warn on Sunday that the country is in a “precarious position.”
The efforts of the White House To speed up vaccines, they ran into an obstacle when health authorities reported six cases of young women developing clotting disorders after receiving the vaccine Johnson & JohnsonBut Fauci predicted that this immunizer will be released again soon, possibly with some restrictions or warnings about its use.
According to the WHO, vaccination coverage against covid-19 in Europe is not as expected.
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‘Cry, hug, kiss’
Australia and New Zealand caught glimpses of normalcy on Monday, then expected travel broker without quarantineFamily members gathered in tears at Sydney airport, while others prepared for their first outbound flights in more than a year after New Zealand closed its borders.
“I’m going to scream, scream, cry, hug, kiss, feel happy, all at once,” he told the AFP Denise O’Donoghue, 63, at Sydney airport while preparing to board. On a slope of the Wellington Airport runway, the words’Welcome I was born(welcome family) were written in gigantic letters.
In Europe, where the outlook is less optimistic, several countries are preparing for this relax the restrictions a little sanitary. This week this will be the case in Belgium, Slovenia, Slovakia, Monaco and Denmark, among others. The Netherlands and France are now planning to reopen the terraces a little later, respectively at the end of April and mid-May.
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Germany paid tribute to 80,000 Covid-19 victims on Sunday as the debate intensified over measures taken by the government of Angela Merkel to stop contamination.
Portugal, for its part, lifted the suspension of flights with the United Kingdom and Brazil “essential travel” and gave the go-ahead for restaurants, shopping centers, high schools and universities to reopen Monday.
Switzerland also kicks off the week with a step towards normalcy, with outdoor seating in restaurants, bars and cinemas, sports facilities and face-to-face lessons at the reopening of the universities.
Families in Israel took the opportunity to have lunch outdoors after the mask’s restriction in open spaces was lifted.
Israel free from masks
In Fiji, authorities ordered the closure of two cities on Monday after registering them first case of community transfer of Covid-19 in 12 months. The Pacific island nation has largely kept the virus under control through strict isolation measures and border controls, with fewer than 100 cases and only two deaths recorded in a population of 930,000.
In Israel, civilians took to the streets no mask, as from Sunday it is only mandatory in transport and in closed establishments. “I am relieved that we can live again,” said 26-year-old Eliana. But “you can’t pretend you don’t know someone on the street anymore,” he joked.
Almost since December five million Israelis (53 percent of the population) received the two doses of the vaccine, that is, 80 percent of the population over the age of 20, according to official data. AFP
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