Pandemic Update, 23rd August 2021

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

	COUNTRY	NEW CASES	DEATH TILL DATE
1	USA	83,954	6,44,859
2	INDIA	34,296	4,33,998
3	UK	31,043	4,34,399
4	BRAZIL	28,388	5,74,243
5	JAPAN	25,529	15,563

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

Country	Fully vaccinated  ( % )	Total number of doses administered ( million)
Iceland (Highest)	75	0.27 m.
Chile	68	14. m.
Israel	63	5.8 m.
U.K	61	47 m.
U.S	51	200.9 m.
India	9.3	448 m.

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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
• 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+
• Number of new cases in India : 34,296
• Total number of Death in India : 4,33,998
• Number of New Death in India : 376

• Total number of Confirmed cases: 10,00,937 ( Crosses 1 million)
• Number of new cases in Odisha drops below 1000: 853
• Total number of Death in Odisha : 7,358
• Number of New Death in Odisha : 69

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(Source:Odisha State Dashboard)

• Unvaccinated patients are suffering worse outcome.
• All other things remaining equal, vaccinated people are more likely to survive and suffer less.
• UK starts a study to compare the rise in antibody in Covid-19 cases between the vaccinated and unvaccinated people

India approves world’s First DNA vaccine for Children above 12 gets approval– a Report

( please click on the link below)

Zycov-D Gets Approval

: Compiled by Dr ରମାକାନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର