the Delta variant dominates the global health situation

In the city of Sydney, Australia, the pandemic implied that “the national emergency” institutes compulsory social isolation – in force for nearly a month – so far, it has not been able to stop the spread of the coronavirus. In this regard, the State of New South Wales has asked Canberra to urgently send more vaccines and resources.

In the case of United States, the number of cases has accelerated this week and exceeded 60%. In fact, authorities in St. Louis, Missouri have decided restore chinstrap use in public places to vaccinated and unvaccinated. Unlike Los Angeles County which did the same thing but inside.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that Delta is responsible for 83% of recent positive samples.

Argentina, for its part, has so far identified a cumulative 46 genomic sequencing of this variant. Of these, 45 belong to people with a history of international travel and one is a case with an epidemiological link with a traveler.

The national health portfolio reported that 36% were detected in the test device at the entry of the country (16 cases) and 64% (29 cases) were positive during their isolation for having started showing symptoms after admission or for having had positive results when performing the PCR test on the seventh day of isolation.

Last week, Russia has reached the highest number of recorded deaths with 799. Despite being a manufacturer of the Sputnik V formula and the requirement imposed in some areas, the vaccination campaign is progressing slowly.

Deaths from infectious disease skyrocketed across the country in July, when almost every day a new death record is recorded. In addition, in the past 24 hours, 23,947 new infections have been confirmed nationwide, down about 5% from the previous week.

However, on the other hand, the President of Colombia, Iván Duque, reported today that the first case was detected in Colombian territory.

The case was detected in Cali by the National Institute of Health of Colombia and “has been submitted for examination”, as well as “treated with all medical protocols” given the seriousness it entails.

“Fortunately, the detection of this variant occurs at times when we are experiencing a rate of decline in the number of daily cases, daily deaths, active cases and a rapid increase in vaccination.”, underlined the president, quoted by the press agency Europa Press.

“The message is: self-care, protection and advance of a free, generalized, massive and already viable vaccination for all citizens over 18 years of age in municipalities with less than 100,000 inhabitants”, he said.

The country has reported a total of 4.7 million infections and 118,000 deaths and is going through a stage where the number of new cases is around 11,000 per day, far from the historic highs of 30,000 reached at the end of the month last.

So far, just over 21% of Colombians are fully vaccinated with one of the five drugs applied in Colombia: Pfizer, Moderna, Coronavac, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson.

This world stage urged WHO issue a statement recommending “that countries increase access to free tests, develop tracing, encourage contact cases to respect quarantine and isolate positives, strengthen surveillance to break the chains of transmission and ensure that the most vulnerable people are vaccinated”.