Pandemic Update, 21st August 2021

Top Five Countries with the highest 24-hour new cases as reported on:

1. U.S. – 154,917
2. India – 37,312
3. U.K. – 36,572
4. Brazil – 35,991
5. Iran – 31,266

( Source: https://vaccines411.ca/en/ )

US retains the First while India moves up to 2nd position.

Country	Fully vaccinated  ( % )	Total number of doses administered ( million)
Chile (Highest)	68	14.25 m.
Israel	63	5.87 m.
U.K	61	47.46 m.
U.S	51	199.89 m.
India	9.1	441.12 m.
China	16	622 m.

India and China together have injected more than 1 billion doses.

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( Over last 14 days.)

• In spite of vaccination of more than 50% of US population
  • Daily Deaths are   up 97%,
  • Daily Hospitalisation up 56% over 14 days
  • Death reported till date 625,153
• Delta cases make up more than 98.8% of Covid cases in the US.
• A booster dose has been proposed to prevent the Delta spread.
• In Texas, If ICU bed availability is an issue, the available bed will go to the vaccinated by passing the unvaccinated.

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• Unvaccinated patients are suffering worse outcome.
• All other things remaining equal, vaccinated people are more likely to survive and suffer less.
• WHO– “The Booster shots of rich nations make mockery of Vaccine Equity”
• Less than 2% of Africa’s population is fully vaccinated.
• World famous Taj Mahal opens tonight for Night viewing for the first time since March 2020.
  • India’s First DNA vaccine for Children above 12 gets approval– a Report:

Zycov-D Gets Approval

: Compiled by Dr ରମାକାନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର