COVID-19 Update, 11-April!
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Here’s a worldwide COVID-19 Update for our readers!
Since the coronavirus first appeared in China in December 2019, it has taken the lives of more than 6 million people. It has spread to many more people and caused governments around the world to lockdown. The development of vaccines has at least given us some reason to be hopeful.
Asia Pacific
India
Covid-19 cases continued to fall in the country. This decline was slowed down as the number of new cases rose in Delhi, Haryana, and Gujarat, as well as in a few other states. In some of the states, the Covid curve flattened and the mask mandate has been lifted.
India started giving Covid-19 vaccines to people over the age of 18 who haven’t had their second dose in nine months at private vaccination centres. People who haven’t had their second dose in nine months will get a “precaution dose.”
China
Shanghai’s fight against covid-19 is slowly turning into a military campaign because of how hard it is to stop. The army has shown pictures of planes loading people and supplies. Tens of thousands of medical workers have walked into the city to protest against the government.
Covid patients will be taken to hospitals in areas sometimes hundreds of kilometres away. The rest of the city’s 25 million people will stay inside as the fight against the virus goes on.
Hong Kong
For a long time, Hong Kong was known for having a low number of covid-19 infections. Now, the virus is killing more people there than anywhere else on Earth. The city doesn’t have enough coffins; morgues are full of victims; hospitals can’t keep up. In one model from the University of Hong Kong, more than 5,000 people could die from covid during this wave.
Africa
A little over a year has passed since the first doses of life-saving vaccines were distributed to Africa. Contrary to expectations, the region’s fastest-ever vaccination deployment is clouded by disappointment.
Many African countries complain of being left behind as wealthy nations buy up most of the world’s vaccines and producers restrict exports to some African countries.
Europe
This week experts at the United Nations have warned of “a new wave in Europe” as new concerns arose over the highly transmissible XE variant. This comes in after a rise in infections in parts of Europe. New varieties of the virus are constantly emerging, and European countries have been cautioned not to let their guard down.
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