The United States still does not control the Covid-19 and Brazil has already applied its first vaccine – Telam

The coronavirus continued to spread uncontrollably this Sunday in the United States, especially 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 disease. virus without drowning their savings and Brazil approved their first two vaccines and began to apply one of them.

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. .

“The previous weekend I turned down 16 families that I couldn’t provide services for,” said owner Candy Boyd of Boyd Funeral Home, where they even call other counties an hour away, quoted by AFP agency

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 during a ceremony attended by Governor Joao Doria.

“As a father, as someone with so many Brazilians who fight for life, who fight against denial, who fight for the protection of Brazilians, today is the day of life, vaccine, from Brazilians, “Doria said, according to the Folha de San Pablo newspaper.

In addition, Latin America and the Caribbean, the second most mourned region in the world 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 on Sunday announced they would immunize all their prisoners, including the 4,400 Palestinians – of whom at least 250 had contracted the disease – after repeated demands for justice. , NGOs and Palestinian authorities, but Palestinians continue to be excluded from the occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

At the same time, Europe moved forward on Sunday in the vaccination campaign against the virus, but the governments of the continent continued to test new strategies to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus without affecting national economies.

Amid a second escalation in infections, Spain on Sunday began applying the second dose to nursing home residents and their caregivers, after receiving the first in late December; In total, it has already applied 768,950 doses, more than two-thirds of the more than a million doses received so far, the health ministry said.

Its neighbor, France, will expand its vaccination system from next Monday, reaching people over 75 who do not live in nursing homes (5 million) and nearly 800,000 people in groups at risk.

The United Kingdom, the most affected European state by the pandemic, with more than 3.36 million cases and around 89,000 deaths, announced on Sunday that the adult population will have the option of receiving the first dose in September, reported the Minister of External Relations, Dominic Raab, quoted by the Sky News media, who is banking on a gradual relaxation of restrictions for September.

However, the UK government has activated a new protocol that will require those arriving in the UK to test negative for the coronavirus and maintain a quarantine.

In a context of growing outrage in Austria, the government announced on Sunday that it would extend its third confinement imposed on Christmas until at least February 8, the Europa Press agency responded.

In Germany, the government Robert Koch Infectious Disease Control Institute (RKI) reported that “the number of cases appears to be stabilizing again” by reporting that 445 deaths and 13,882 new infections were recorded on the last day, a figure significantly lower than yesterday’s 18,678 infections.

At the same time, in Norway, the Medicines Agency announced that it suspected that the first injection of the vaccine had caused the deaths of 13 elderly people with delicate health, and that it was investigating, while one of the Entity officials, Steinar Madsen, expressed that the side effects were not “alarming.”