The British variant of the new coronavirus Covid-19 continues to spread around the world and was present last week in 60 countries and territories
, 10 more than on January 12: the World Health Organization has announced.
The South African variant, which, like the English one, is much more contagious than the original SARS-CoV-2 virus, spreads more slowly and is present in 23 countries and territories, 3 more than on January 12, WHO specifies in its weekly epidemiological report.
The
Brazil
reported 1,183 deaths and 63,504 infections Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, according to local health secretariats.
The total toll since the beginning of the pandemic rises to 211,511 deaths and 8,575,742 confirmed cases.
Beijing
has imposed the lockdown on 1.7 million people in the district of Daxing, south of the capital where the new airport is located, after six cases of Covid-19 were found for a total in the city that rose to 15. " The cases detected in Daxing have raised the alarm that the epidemic situation is hard and complex - said Xu Hejian, spokesman for the municipality, at a press conference -. We cannot relax on the prevention of imported cases and on the domestic rebound ".
Beijing has also extended the period of restrictions to 28 days for anyone arriving from abroad, including 14 days in centralized quarantine.
