The total number of victims of the coronavirus pandemic is already approaching 5 million
Between 80,000 and 180,000 medics lost the battle with Covid-19 between January 2020 and May 2021. These are the shocking data of the World Health Organization. According to her, doctors and nurses should be vaccinated with
Globally, there are approximately 135 million doctors, nurses, paramedics. According to the WHO document, whose conclusions are based on information from 119 countries, two out of five medics are fully vaccinated.
However, there are huge differences in terms of geographical regions. In Africa, for example, one in 10 doctors is immunized, in rich countries they are 8 out of 10.
“If the world’s richest countries fail to mobilize and organize immediate vaccine deliveries to the unvaccinated at the G20 summit in Italy, the epidemic, economic and ethical disregard will oblige us all,” said Gordon Brown. WHO Ambassador.
The total number of victims of the coronavirus pandemic is already approaching 5 million. The confirmed cases so far are 241,886,635, and 4,919,755 of those infected have died.
According to AFP estimates, the three countries with the highest number of deaths are the United States (731,265), Brazil (604,228) and India (452,811). Followed by Mexico, Russia, Peru, Indonesia, Britain, Italy and Colombia. Among the countries in this top ten, India, Peru, Indonesia, Italy and Colombia reported a decline in mortality on a weekly basis, the rest – an increase.
No wonder the pandemic continues “for much of 2022” because poor countries are not getting enough vaccines, said Bruce Aylward, an adviser to the head of the WHO.
The international Covax program, which provides vaccines to the poorest countries, planned to deliver 2 billion doses by the end of the year, but has so far dispatched only 371 million doses.
According to the WHO, a total of 6,655,399,359 doses of vaccine have been administered worldwide by Wednesday.
The organization also said that last week there was a 7% increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus in Europe, the only region with a reported increase in this indicator.
The UN Health Agency said about 2.7 million new cases of KOVID-19 and more than 46,000 deaths had been reported during the period, a level similar to the previous week. Most new cases are in the UK, Russia and Turkey.
A record number of new infections in the UK for the first time since July – they are over 50 thousand per day. From the beginning of the week, the health authorities want the return of part of the covid restrictions. According to the government, however, the situation is under control. The authorities invited everyone for whom the third, boosting dose is recommended, to take advantage.
The Prime Minister of New Zealand announced that the strict quarantine measures will be lifted only after 90% of the island’s population. For a day there are registered 129 new cases – a record number for the third time this week.
