Your Weekly Pandemic Update 17.10.21:

Finally the weekly Death toll of the world due to Covid-19 has fallen below 50,000 after more than a year.

• The worldwide weekly death toll for the last week was 43,000.
• There has been 50,000 death every week for the last 52 weeks due to this pandemic.
• All the covid numbers ( New cases, new deaths) are falling the world over after 11 weeks.
• Booster dose ( Third jab):

Israel is the first country to make a third dose of Covid vaccine ( booster shot) a requirement for it Digital Vaccination Passport.

• CDC of USA recommends Booster (3rd) shot for Pfizer vaccine for US citizens
  • All 65 years and above
  • All 50-64 years with certain medical conditions.

• Covid Pill
  • Merck comes out with Molnupiravir– an oral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalisation by 50%.
• Cocktail Antibody
  • Astra Zeneca comes out with a new Cocktail antibody treatment for Covid-19

• Covid Deaths cross 48 lakhs. That is not a number. They are 48 lakhs wives, husbands, Sons and daughters of someone.
• Covid has now affected more than 23 Crore people in 221 countries making it one of the worst scourge of mankind on record.
• A Penn state college states that 50% of these 23 crore people will have some form of long Covid symptoms lasting unto 6 months. They are weakness, chest pain . A link is given below. https://news.psu.edu/story/672142/2021/10/13/research/how-many-people-get-long-covid-more-half-researchers-find
• You can’t predict this virus. When the vaccination reached its highest in USA, UK and Israel, their case numbers also peaked. On the other hand, the virus has gone down in the African nations where vaccination is less than 5%.
• Covid among Children:
  • ( As pediatric data from our country is not readily available, I’ve relied on CDC and AAP data instead.)
• • In USA, there were 8,50,000 new paediatric cases in last 4 weeks averaging 200,000 new cases per week.
  • In New York City, there has been 615 children hospitalisation and 22 deaths among kids due to covid in one week ending on 30 September.
• Covid Toe: A purple toe with itching and blisters can occur in asymptomatic covid positive children. YouTube link is given below:

• It is now established that Unvaccinated people are 10 times more likely to be hospitalised from the virus.
• Vaccine protection wanes after 6 months.
• The vaccine inequality.
  • What is the schedule of a Covid Vaccine ? Is it 2 doses or 3 doses schedule ??
  • Number of doses are decided not by science but by money.
  • US, Israel, Uruguay, Chile, Iceland, and Turkey have mandated a third dose.
  • it consists of 3 doses at 0, 1, 6 months interval.
  • For developing nations like India it is limited to two doses.
  • For 4% of Africans it is barely one single dose.
  • For the rest of poor nations, it is Zero.
  • While UK, EU, USA have completed vaccination of two third of their citizens, only 4% of Africans have received just one dose.

Last updated: ( 16 October, 00.00 GMT )

Top Countries with the highest number new cases as reported on:

	COUNTRY	16.10.21
	World	437,942
1	USA	92,966
2	UK	44,932
3	INDIA	15,981

Top Countries with the highest number Deaths till date:

	COUNTRY	16.10.21
	World	48,59,934
1	USA	743,880
2	BRAZIL	602,727
3	INDIA	451,980

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• Singapore, Portugal, Chile, Malta have achieved 80% vaccination..
• Portugal lifts all covid restriction after reaching 80% vaccination. Now you don’t need a mask or social distancing to dine in a restaurant in Portugal. Covid test report is also not required.
• India and world on a whole has vaccinated 50%.
• Some of the poor nations yet to vaccinate 4%.

• 6.5 billion doses of vaccine has been injected since the beginning. But not all are uniformly distributed.
• in September, 1.58 billion doses have been manufactured.
• China- 787 million, EU- 274 m, India- 240 m, Thailand 52.5 m, Russia-52m.
• While 53% of world are yet to receive a single shot, 0.5% have received 3 doses.

(Detected In the last 24 hours)	New cases	Total /New death
India	15,981	451,980 / 166
Kerala	8,867	26,734 / 67
Maharashtra	2,149	1,39,734 / 29
Tamilnadu	1,245	35,869 / 16
Odisha	358	8282 / 3

• Total number of Confirmed cases in India : 34 million+
• Number of new cases in India : 15,981
• Total number of Death in India : 4,51,980 ( 1.33%)
• Number of New Death in India : 166
• Total Number of vaccine doses administered: 972 million.
• Total Samples tested : 589 million

( 9th October, 9 AM)

• Total number of Confirmed cases: 10,31,044 ( 1 million+)
• Number of new cases in Odisha : 358
• Number aged between 0-18 years: 47 ( 13%)
• Total number of Death in Odisha : 8,282
• Number of New Death in Odisha : 3
• Total Number of Tests done- 2.10 crore
• Test Positivity Rate- 4.93%
• Total Number of Doses of Vaccine administered- 3.38 crores
• Total number of persons received at least One dose crosses 2.40 crores.

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( 16th October, 9 AM)

• New Positive cases today: 141
• Number pediatrics: 26 ( 18%)
• Active cases on date: 3622
• Total Number of Death till date: 1043

A Penn state college states that 50% of these 23 crore people will have some form of long Covid symptoms lasting unto 6 months. They are tiredness, difficulty breathing, chest pain, sore joints and loss of taste or smell.

A link is given below.

https://news.psu.edu/story/672142/2021/10/13/research/how-many-people-get-long-covid-more-half-researchers-find

• A Respiratory Pandemic needs several layers of protection.
• We must realise that “No single intervention gives us 100% protection.”
• Neither Vaccination Nor Quarantine alone can do miracles.
• But each added slice of intervention adds to our protection.

• Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
• Worldometers.info
• Ourworldindata.org
• Mygov.in/Covid-19
• Odisha State dashboard
• I&PR department, Odisha
• BMC Bhubaneswar Covid-19 Update.

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: Compiled by Dr ରମାକାନ୍ତ ମହାପାତ୍ର