The coronavirus ravages the United States and Brazil has already applied its first vaccines | the Chronicle

The coronavirus continued to spread uncontrollably in the United States, particularly in the city of Los Angeles where there is an explosion of cases, while in Europe governments sought new strategies to prevent the spread of the virus. without drowning their savings and Brazil approved its first two vaccinations and began to apply one of them.

The world on Sunday passed 94.5 million infections and 2.02 million deaths, after counting 614,657 and 12,967 in the past 24 hours., respectively, according to the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) database.

Almost a third of today’s cases and a quarter of deaths correspond to the United States, the country hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, which added 198,218 new cases and 3,286 deaths, and brought the total to 23.7 million. and nearly 396,000, respectively.

In Los Angeles, one of the hardest-hit cities and where one in 10 people have been infected since the onset of the disease, more than a million infections have been affected since the start of the pandemic and nearly 300 people died every day last week.

The situation is critical: Some funeral homes in the city have started rejecting clients for not providing enough and reported a shortage of coffins due to lack of wood, while hospitals were already using refrigerated trucks to welcome victims and some cemeteries have warned of two-week waiting lists. .

“Last weekend, I turned down 16 families that I couldn’t serve”said the owner Candy boyd, from Boyd Funeral Home, where they even call other counties within an hour’s drive, cited by the agency AFP.

The health situation in Brazil

In Brazil, the second country with the most deaths (209,296) and the third with the most cases (8.45 million), the health regulator has approved the use of the Oxford / AstraZeneca and CoronaVac vaccines, and the State of São Paulo has started to apply the latter, the only one of the two for which there are already doses in the country.

Monica calazans, a 54-year-old nurse from the intensive care area of ​​Emilio Ribas Hospital in the city of San Pablo was the first to be vaccinated in a ceremony attended by the governor, Joao doria.

“As a family man, as someone with so many Brazilians who are fighting for life, who are fighting against denial, who are fighting for the protection of Brazilians, today is the day of life, vaccine, Brazilians “, Express Doria, according to the newspaper leaf of San Pablo.

In addition, Latin America and the Caribbean, second region in the world most mourned by the virus, have accumulated nearly 550,000 deaths and more than 17.2 million infections.

Meanwhile, in the Middle East region, Israeli prison authorities today announced that they would immunize all their prisoners, including the 4,400 Palestinians – of whom at least 250 had contracted the disease – after repeated requests from the justice, NGOs and Palestinian authorities, but Palestinians continue to be excluded from the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.