Coronavirus in the world: fear of the advance of the pandemic during the holidays

As progress is made in the development of vaccines against the coronavirus (COVID-19), The pandemic continues unabated in various parts of the world, and many governments fear that they will not be able to control the spread of the virus in the weeks following the Christmas and New Year holidays..

The most affected country in the world is United States, which this weekend recorded a record number of cases in 24 hours for the third day in a row: nearly 230,000 new cases and 2,527 deaths, according to a report from Johns Hopkins University.

On another side, in Europe, several countries have also announced restrictions. Switzerland, for example, announced that it would ban Christmas carols in the streets, while in Madrid, the capital of Spain, the New Year’s celebration in the center has been canceled.

On the Asian continent, South Korea raised its health alert to second level after confirming 631 new cases, the highest figure in nine months, representing a total of more than 37,000 infections since the start of the pandemic.

The start of vaccination

In UK, the European country with the highest number of cases and deaths, the health authorities Green light on the vaccine manufactured by the Pfizer-BioNTech laboratory at the end of last week. The country has reserved a total of 40 million doses and plans to receive a first batch of 800,000 to begin the vaccination campaign next Tuesday.

For its part, Russia has started vaccinating its high-risk workers and other countries are preparing to conduct similar programs.

Either way, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that vaccines are not a panacea and warned against the mistake of thinking the pandemic would end soon because of them.