Coronavirus Global Updates 26 July ::: Ontario reports 172 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths; Indonesia records more Covid-19 cases than India, Brazil

Mon Jul 26 08:57:12 CAT 2021

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Coronavirus Global Updates 26 July ::: Ontario reports 172 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths; Indonesia records more Covid-19 cases than India, Brazil

Zimbabwe COVID19 Update

COVID-19 update: As at 25 July 2021, Zimbabwe had 97 894 confirmed cases, including 65 913 recoveries and 3 094 deaths. To date, a total of 1 447 342 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

Ontario reports 172 new COVID-19 cases, 2 deaths

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Ontario is reporting 172 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the provincial total to 549,328.

According to Sunday’s report, 48 cases were recorded in Toronto, 23 in Peel Region, and 11 in Hamilton and Durham.

All other local public health units reported 10 or fewer new cases in the provincial report.

The death toll in the province now stands at 9,313 as two new deaths were recorded.

As of 8 p.m. on Saturday, more than 18.9 million total COVID-19 vaccine doses were administered. That marked an increase of 103,812 vaccines (14,821 for a first shot and 88,891 for a second shot) in the last day. 

There are more than eight million people fully immunized with two doses which is 67.7 per cent of the adult (18+) population. First dose adult coverage stands at 80.8 per cent.

Meanwhile, 538,565 Ontario residents were reported to have recovered from COVID-19, which is just over 98 per cent of known cases. Resolved cases increased by 144 from the previous day.

There were less resolved cases than new cases on Sunday.

Active cases in Ontario now stand at 1,450.

The government said more than 13,900 tests were processed in the last 24 hours. There is currently a backlog of 3,991 tests awaiting results. A total of 16,464,927 tests have been completed since the start of the pandemic.

Test positivity jumped to 1.1 per cent on Sunday, up from 0.8 Saturday.

Ontario reported 88 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 (down by 37 from the previous day) with 127 patients in intensive care units (down by five) and 81 patients in ICUs on a ventilator (down by five).

Variants of concern in Ontario
Officials have listed breakdown data for the new VOCs (variants of concern) detected so far in the province which consist of the B.1.1.7 (now named by WHO as “Alpha” and was first detected in the United Kingdom), B.1.351 (now named by WHO as “Beta” and was first detected in South Africa), P.1 (now named by WHO as “Gamma” and was first detected in Brazil), and B.1.617.2 (now named by WHO as “Delta” and was first detected in India).

“Alpha” the B.1.1.7 VOC: 145,386 variant cases, which is up by 131 since the previous day,

“Beta” the B.1.351 VOC: 1,492 variant cases, up by three since the previous day.

“Gamma” the P.1 VOC: 5,142 variant cases, up by two since the previous day.

“Delta” B.1.617.2 VOC: 3,913 variant cases, up by 16 since the previous day.

NOTE: It takes several days for positive COVID-19 tests to be re-examined for the exact variant. Therefore, there may be more variant cases than overall cases in daily reporting.

Indonesia records more Covid-19 cases than India, Brazil

Indonesia on Sunday recorded 45,416 new cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) to overtake Brazil, India and the US in terms of fresh infections, according to Worldometer data. There were 38,091 Covid-19 cases logged in Brazil, 39,742 in India and 37,245 in the United States during the same period. However, in terms of the total number of infections and deaths, Indonesia is still far behind the top countries with 3,166,505 cases and 83,279 fatalities.

Indonesia has become a new global virus epicentre after exceeding Brazil and India in terms of daily Covid-19 case and death counts earlier this month. Indonesia’s confirmed Covid-19 cases have jumped back to around 40,000 a day after declining from over 56,000 on July 15. Its death toll has also remained at near-record highs.

On Sunday, President Joko Widodo loosened Covid-19 curbs for another week until August 2 even as coronavirus disease cases remained high following near month-long restrictions. Widodo's orders came despite experts warnings that loosening restrictions could bring about another wave of the pandemic in the country.

According to the new orders, traditional markets selling staple foods will open as normal and shops selling non-food items and other small merchants have been allowed to operate at half capacity with shorter hours. Food stalls and restaurants can resume dine-ins in outdoor areas but under very strict protocols.

Luhut Panjaitan, in charge of coordinating the pandemic response in the regions, said stage-four restrictions with the tightest measures, are in place in 95 cities and regencies across Java and Bali. Malls and department stores can operate at 25 per cent capacity until 5pm in 33 cities and regencies that fall under stage-three restrictions.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged Indonesia to impose tighter Covid-19 curbs and experts have said that lifting restrictions will result in more cases and deaths in the country.

"Restrictions must be in place for a minimum of four weeks and (the government) needs to increase testing, tracing and treatment to have maximum results," Dicky Budiman, an Indonesia epidemiologist at Australia's Griffith University, told AFP before Sunday's announcement. "Otherwise, it's just the same as having no restrictions," he said.

Zimbabwe Receives COVID-19 Vaccines from China Amid Fears of Third Wave

HARARE - Zimbabwe on Sunday received one million SINOVAC vaccines it bought from China as the African country battles to meet the demand for the COVID-19 jabs. Zimbabweans want to get vaccinated to beat a third wave facing the country.   

After the arrival of the doses from China on Sunday, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube told reporters that Zimbabwe had paid $92 million for 12 million jabs from China and from the COVAX – the United Nations’ vaccine-sharing initiative.

“So, our vaccination program and vaccine acquisition program is going very well. For the first dose, we are already reaching about 50,000 vaccinations per day, which is good going indeed. So, all is going well. And we feel that we are well on our way of achieving that target of herd immunity which we need in order to open our economy safely so that the recovery is sustained and we can move from strength to strength with our objectives,” said Ncube.  

In a virtual press conference this week Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization’s regional director for Africa, said the continent was going through a third wave of COVID-19 infections and should urgently ramp up COVID-19 vaccination program.

“Africa continues to lag behind, sadly. Yet Africa’s supply crunch is starting to ease. The first delivery of doses donated by the USA through the COVAX Facility are arriving in Africa and altogether nearly 60 million doses are expected in the coming weeks through COVAX from Team Europe, UK, purchased doses and other partners. African countries must go all out and speed up their vaccine rollouts by five to six times if they are to get all these doses into arms and fully vaccinate the most vulnerable 10% of their people by the end of September,” said Moeti.

COVID-19 is the disease caused by the coronavirus.

Slightly more than 1,400,000 Zimbabweans out of a population of 14 million have received their first shot, and nearly 680,000 have received their second inoculation since the program started in February.

Norman Murwizi is one of the Zimbabweans who has yet to get a vaccine due to shortages.

“The chances of me getting vaccinated would have increased due to increase supply of vaccines. My guess or wish will be - the service rate will actually have improved so that the number (of people to vaccinated) will plummet and the chances of people getting vaccinated does increase. So, the expectation increases of me getting a vaccine with no hassle at all. Or with minimum farce,” said Murwizi.

Zimbabwe had turned down Johnson & Johnson vaccines which the African Union sourced for its members with financing from the African Development Bank but changed its mind.

Zimbabwe has 97,277 confirmed coronavirus infections and 3,050 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University, which is tracking the global outbreak. On Sunday, Dr. John Mangwiro, Zimbabwe’s junior health minister, said with the arrival of a million jabs, the vaccination program would intensify. 

Extra Pfizer doses going to NSW

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has defended an extra 50,000 Pfizer doses for NSW.

The West Australian and Northern Territory governments have questioned where the extra vaccines came from, arguing any federal reserves should be allocated across the country.

But Mr Hunt says all states and territories are getting their fair share, based on their eligible population. 

"These were previously unallocated doses, the first 150,000, the 50,000 is coming forward from the supplies that are arriving," he said. 

"And all states and territories are receiving exactly their per capita amount which was pledged at the commencement of July."

Global Covid-19 caseload tops 194 million: Johns Hopkins University

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 34,443,064 and 610,891, respectively, according to the CSSE.

Washington: The overall global Covid-19 caseload has topped 194 million, while the deaths have surged to more than 4.15 million and vaccinations soared to over 3.84 billion, according to the Johns Hopkins University.

In its latest update on Monday 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 194,092,488, 4,158,316 and 3,841,936,983, respectively.

The US continues to be the worst-hit country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 34,443,064 and 610,891, respectively, according to the CSSE.

In terms of infections, India follows in the second place with 31,371,901 cases.

The other worst countries with over 3 million cases are Brazil (19,688,663), France (6,056,388), Russia (6,049,215), the UK (5,723,393), Turkey (5,601,608), Argentina (4,846,615), Colombia (4,727,846), Italy (4,317,415), Spain (4,280,429), Germany (3,763,018), Iran (3,691,432) and Indonesia (3,166,505), the CSSE figures showed.

In terms of deaths, Brazil comes second with 549,924 fatalities.

Nations with a death toll of over 100,000 are India (420,551), Mexico (238,316), Peru (195,243), Russia (151,352), the UK (129,446), Italy (127,949), Colombia (118,868), France (111,806) and Argentina (103,721).

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