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The daily mortality due to the action of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus reported its most serious data so far in the pandemic on Saturday, registering 15,000 deaths from the covid-19 disease in the last 24 hours, while several countries of the world already apply aggressive vaccination plans.
For the World Health Organization (WHO), which reported the number in its traditional daily press conference from Geneva (Switzerland), it is a record figure that places the total number of deaths from the pandemic at 1.9 million.
The health entity of the United Nations system also affirmed that 800,000 new infections of the pathogen were also registered, one of the highest daily figures in more than a year of health crisis, and that leaves the global total at 87.5 million.
For its part, the figures given by Johns Hopkins University tend to be closer to those of the WHO, since they register that in the same period of time 14,858 people lost their lives due to covid-19, while 812,212 infections occurred.
According to the WHO report, in Europe, with an accumulated 28 million cases and 622,000 deaths, and which registered 273,000 cases and 6,000 deaths between Friday and Saturday, there is no evidence of a clear rebound compared to previous weeks.
America is the one that worries the most in all lines of the pandemic. 440,000 positive diagnoses and 7,800 deaths were added in the same day, so that the continent accumulates in more than a year of a pandemic 38 million infections and more than 900,000 deaths.
Most experts are concluding that the Christmas holidays, in which there were Christmas celebration meetings without respecting social distancing, the use of a mask and hand washing, is being reported in the increase in hospital admissions, which it is causing systems, especially in Latin America, to collapse.
The United States remains the most affected country, with 21 million cases, followed by India (10 million) and Brazil, which last day reported a record number of daily cases (62,000, leaving more than 8 million infected) .
The United Kingdom, where Prime Minister Boris Johnson again decreed a strict quarantine on January 4 in the face of the exponential increase in cases and deaths, maintains a growth curve of positives in constant elevation with 2.9 million, while Russia is going in the opposite direction with an accumulation of 3.3 million.
In France (2.7 million infections), Italy (2.2 million) and Spain (2 million) the curve of daily positives rises again, but has not yet reached the November highs.
Germany (1.8 million cases in total) shows some stabilization after weeks of strong growth, while Colombia continues to post record daily figures and adds 1.7 million positives.
South Africa leads its continent
Although Africa is one of the continents that has been least affected by the impact of the pandemic, health authorities are watching with concern the increase in infections and deaths, which have already reached 3 million and 72,000 respectively across the continent, according to the Johns Hopkins University.
But 40.3% of all cases on the continent and 32,824 deaths are being accounted for in just one country: South Africa.
“The number of cases has increased rapidly in recent weeks as we de-escalated and people began to move,” John Nkengasong, director of the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told Efe today.
South Africa faces a more aggressive second wave, in part, due to the presence of the coronavirus variant N501Y, which would be more transmissible and would be behind the more than 110,000 infections registered just in the last week.
South Africa is followed by Morocco with about half a million infections, Tunisia (almost 155,000), Egypt (147,810) and Ethiopia (127,572).
Royal vaccination and death of the papal physician
Amid total confinement in the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip of Edinburgh, received the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine this Saturday.
The sovereign, 94, and the duke, 99, were vaccinated by a royal doctor at their residence in Windsor Castle, outside London.
Elsewhere in Europe, in the Vatican, it was reported that Fabrizzio Socorsi, Pope Francis’ personal physician, died as a result of covid-19.
Soccorsi, 78, was admitted to the Gemelli hospital for an oncological pathology and had been chosen as a personal doctor by Francisco in 2015, when he was a consultant to the Vatican’s Health and Hygiene Directorate and emeritus director of Hepatology at the San Camilo Hospital in Rome.
On January 2, the Vatican announced that it will begin its vaccination campaign against the coronavirus predictably in the middle of the month and will have priority health and public security personnel, the elderly and workers in contact with the public.
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