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The corona virus is turning Switzerland and the world upside down. Here in the ticker, you will stay updated on current events.
This article is renewed every 30 seconds.For the third day in a row, more than 9,000 new corona infections have been recorded in Israel. As the Ministry of Health announced on Thursday, 9,388 cases were reported in 24 hours. This is the second highest value since the beginning of the pandemic. For comparison: Israel has a little more than nine million inhabitants, Germany about nine times more.
The number of daily deaths from the corona pandemic in Germany has reached a new record. In 24 hours, 1,244 more deaths were recorded, as announced by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), citing information from health authorities. The previous maximum was reached last Friday with 1,188 deaths.
American researchers say they have discovered a new variant of the virus in the United States. This has a mutation identical to the most contagious version known in Britain. However, it likely developed from a variant already known in the United States, scientists at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center announce.
So far, the new variant has been detected in a patient from the state of Ohio. How widespread it is in the population is still unknown.
The second year of the pandemic could be tougher than the previous one, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The reason for this is some aspects of the spread of the virus, says WHO expert Mike Ryan. This is particularly true in the Northern Hemisphere in view of the new, more contagious variants. His colleague Maria Van Kerkhove also refers to the consequences of the holidays. “In some countries, the situation will get much worse before it gets better,” he says.
The previous model country, Ireland, has become a child with Corona issues in just a few weeks. Converted into population, the EU state currently reports a high number of infections. Experts blame the government. The second lockdown ended too early and there were too many contacts over the Christmas holidays, said Tomás Ryan of the German press agency’s Trinity College Dublin. “The government has given in to the short-term interests of companies.”
Ireland still had the lowest infection rate in the EU at the beginning of December, but recently one of the highest in the world. The number had risen from a good 150 new cases in early December to the beginning of the year and surpassed 8,000 on January 8. Authorities also blame the rapid spread of the virus mutation discovered in Britain.
In the United States, more than 10 million people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus since the vaccination campaign began. As announced by the CDC health authority, about 10.3 million doses of the Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna vaccine were administered. This means that about 3.1 percent of the 330 million people in the US have received their first dose of vaccine to date. In total, about 29.4 million doses of the two vaccines were distributed to the states.
About 28 million doses of vaccines were administered worldwide in 36 days, according to the Director of Medical Emergencies of the World Health Organization (WHO), Michael Ryan. Vaccinations were initially carried out in 46 countries.
A team of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to investigate the origins of the coronavirus arrived in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday. Upon arrival, the researchers were screened for the coronavirus and must go into quarantine for two weeks. There had been a long tug of war in the journey, so the arrival was delayed.
Together with Chinese scientists, the experts want to find out if the virus can be traced back to its source. More than a year ago, the first infections with the new Sars-CoV-2 virus were discovered in the metropolis of Wuhan, which infected tens of millions of people around the world. According to official statistics, more than 1.9 million people have already died.
The US disease agency CDC has so far administered about 10.3 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine. The authority announced this on Wednesday.
A total of 29.4 million doses of coronavirus vaccine were delivered, it said.
Previous short messages from Switzerland and the world on Covid-19 can be found here.
