Coronavirus Global Updates 22 July ::: Australia’s Covid Zero Strategy Hits a Wall; Global Covid-19 caseload tops 191.9 mn; vaccinations soar over 3.71 bn

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Coronavirus Global Updates 22 July ::: Australia’s Covid Zero Strategy Hits a Wall; Global Covid-19 caseload tops 191.9 mn; vaccinations soar over 3.71 bn

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Zimbabwe COVID19 Update

COVID-19 update: As at 21 July 2021, Zimbabwe had 91 120 confirmed cases, including 59 627 recoveries and 2 809 deaths To date, a total of 1 292 642 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Australia’s Covid Zero Strategy Hits a Wall
While the U.S. and U.K. plow headlong into reopening, across the other side of the world half of Australia’s population is back in lockdown.

The country’s ‘Covid Zero’ approach to containing the virus—once the gold standard, with its aim of keeping out all cases via mandatory hotel quarantines and travel bans—seems to have reached its limit as the highly contagious delta strain slips through fortified international borders, seeding infections in the once envied, once largely virus-free haven.

Sydney’s lockdown is the strictest since the pandemic began and looks set to be extended, with the total number of Covid cases since mid-June creeping toward 2,000. The economy is bleeding over A$2 billion ($1.5 billion) a week after construction sites were shut down on top of the near complete closure of the hospitality and tourism industries. Meanwhile, Melbourne has entered its fifth snap lockdown, after a case from Sydney spawned a cluster.

Delta has backed Australia, with its existing playbook, into a corner. Lulled by long stretches without Covid deaths, or any locally transmitted cases at all, the government took the view that vaccination wasn’t a race, especially with the virus ravaging other parts of the world.

But delta’s rapid spread here has shown it is very much a race. With less than half the level of vaccine coverage of the U.S., Australia must continue to suppress the virus zealously—and that means lockdowns when even a few cases emerge—or risk overwhelming a hospital system that’s never had to contend with a real onslaught of infections.

Other “Covid Zero” economies, such as Taiwan and Singapore, are facing similar challenges, with the bar for reopening higher than in places where there is more natural immunity and acceptance that the virus is now endemic.

The contrast with parts of the world that prioritized inoculation early on is stark, even as cases—and delta—flare there as well. With enough vaccinations administered to cover about 50% of the European Union’s population, it’s time to “live with the virus,” as one French government minister put it. And despite the highest case tally in the world, the U.K. pushed on with “Freedom Day” as vaccines keep deaths low.

With the rest of the world accepting Covid is here to stay, and reopening anyway, Australia will need to adjust the way it views cases. But first it has to ramp up vaccination, and fast.—Georgina McKay

Track the vaccines

More Than 3.67 Billion Shots Given

Enough doses have now been administered to fully vaccinate 23.9% of the global population—but the distribution has been lopsided. Countries and regions with the highest incomes are getting vaccinated more than 30 times faster than those with the lowest. We’ve updated our vaccine tracker to allow you to explore vaccine rates vs Covid cases in a number of countries.

COVID-19: Active, average cases rise again as B.C. reports 78 new infections
Active and average COVID-19 case numbers trended upward again Wednesday, as the province reported 78 new infections and no additional deaths.

The seven-day average for new cases, which has been climbing slowly since Thursday, rose to 58.

Active cases rose to 729, the highest they have been since July 4.

Of the new cases, 21 were in the Fraser Health Region, 23 were in the Vancouver Coastal Health region, 31 were in the Interior Health region, one was in the Northern Health region and two were in the Vancouver Island Health region.

More than 3.71 million British Columbians — 80.1 per cent of those eligible, and 72.1 per cent of B.C.’s population — have had at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose.

Of them, more than 2.57 million people — 55.6 per cent of those eligible and 50 per cent of the province’s population — have had two doses.

There were 48 people in hospital, 16 of whom were in intensive care.

Since the start of the pandemic, B.C. has reported 146,142 cases of COVID-19, while 1,763 people have died.

COVID-19: N.S. announces 7 new cases, Strang expected to speak with reporters Friday

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Nova Scotia reported seven new cases of COVID-19 and three recoveries on Wednesday.

Six of the cases are in Central Zone. Three are close contacts of previously reported cases and three are related to travel.

The province said two of those cases are connected to the Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Halifax and were previously announced by the Canadian Armed Forces.

One case is in Western Zone and is related to travel.

There are no COVID-19 news briefings planned for this week in Nova Scotia, and it’s not clear when one might happen again.

But the Department of Health said there will be a media availability with Dr. Robert Strang, chief medical officer of health, on Friday with more details to come.

The province is now in the fourth stage of its reopening plan and there are 11 active cases of COVID-19.

There are currently no hospitalizations.

Nova Scotia Health Authority’s labs completed 2,624 tests on July 19 and 3,141 the day before.

As of July 20, 1,240,114 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered. Of those, 512,393 Nova Scotians have received their second dose.

Since April 1, there have been 4,138 positive COVID-19 cases and 26 deaths.

There are 4,101 resolved cases. (41%).

"Globally, COVID-19 case weekly incidence increased with an average of around 490,000 cases reported each day over the past week as compared to 400,000 cases daily in the previous week," the WHO said.

The Delta variant was detected in 13 more countries this past week, raising the total number to 124. The Alpha variant (B117) has been detected and is circulating in 180 countries.

The WHO said the rise in cases has to do with both variants of concern, relaxing social restrictions, and inequitable vaccine access.

PAHO head on 'pandemic of the unvaccinated'

In a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis on vaccine disparities, only 1% of people in low-income countries have received a first vaccine dose, versus 51% of people in higher-income countries. In total, about 3.7 billion vaccine doses have been administered globally.

"More and more, disease trends are showing a region divided by vaccine access. In countries with adequate vaccine supply, infections are decreasing; in places where vaccine coverage is still low, in those countries, infections remain high," said Carissa Etienne, MBBS, director of the WHO's Pan American Health Organization, during a press briefing.

"We face a pandemic of the unvaccinated, and the only way to stop it is to expand vaccination. Vaccines are critical, even if no vaccine is 100% effective."

Etienne said that in countries in which more than one third of the population is vaccinated, including Costa Rica, Chile, and Argentina, case counts are steadily dropping. But vaccination progress in many nations in Central America and the Caribbean remains slow.

Other COVID-19 developments

·         The Olympic Games haven't officially started yet, but 79 COVID cases have already been linked to the event. In an address to the International Olympic Committee, WHO's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, voiced support for the Games and used the opportunity to point out vaccine inequities.

·         In Australia, both New South Wales and Victoria states are seeing spikes in cases, dimming hopes for a quick end to their lockdowns, Reuters reported.

·         The global total today reached 191,763,648 COVID-19 cases and 4,122,507 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins online tracker.

Global Covid-19 caseload tops 191.9 mn; vaccinations soar over 3.71 bn

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 191.9 million, while deaths have surged to more than 4.12 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.71 billion, according to Johns Hopkins University

The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 191.9 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.12 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.71 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Thursday morning, the University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) revealed that the current global caseload, death toll and the total number of vaccine doses administered stood at 191,923,269, 4,125,810 and 3,713,022,529, respectively.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world's highest number of cases and deaths at 34,223,853 and 609,846, respectively, according to the CSSE.

In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 31,216,337 cases.

The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (19,473,954), France (5,973,880), Russia (5,955,089), Turkey (5,554,317), the UK (5,586,497), Argentina (4,798,851), Colombia (4,679,994), Italy (4,297,337), Spain (4,219,723), Germany (3,756,497) and Iran (3,603,527), the CSSE figures showed.

In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 545,604 fatalities.

Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (418,480), Mexico (236,810), Peru (195,243), Russia (148,229), the UK (129,182), Italy (127,905), Colombia (117,482), France (111,737) and Argentina (102,818).--IANS

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