Pandemic Update, 22nd August 2021

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

1. U.S. – 86,707
2. U.K. – 32,058
3. India – 31,035
4. Brazil – 28,388
5. Japan – 25,877

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

Japan moves up to 5th position for the first time, ( Cost of Olympic 2020)

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	200.42 m.
India	9.1	446.12 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.
• US has more than 75,000 Covid-19 patients on bed, a dramatic high.

• Total number of Confirmed cases in India : 32 million+
• Total number of Death in India : 3,55,391
• Total number of Confirmed cases in Odisha crosses 1 million
• Total number of Death in Odisha : 7,289
• Number of new cases in Odisha drops below 1000: 911

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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.
• The highly anticipated James Bond film “NO Time To Die” which was supposed to be released in April 2020 was postponed due to the pandemic will open to red carpet at the Royal Albert hall in September 2021.
• India approves world’s First DNA vaccine for Children above 12 gets approval– a Report ( please click on the link)

Zycov-D Gets Approval

: Compiled by Dr ରମାକାନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର