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Covid: over 99 million cases worldwide

2021-01-25T08:49:47.302Z


From today stop to Europe-USA travel. The United States is the country with the highest number of cases (ANSA)


Coronavirus cases around the world are approaching 100 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

To be precise, there are 99,192,353 people infected with Covid-19 in the five continents, while the victims are 2,129,403.

The country with the highest number of cases remains the United States, over 25 million, followed by India, Brazil, Russia and the United Kingdom.

The first EU country in terms of number of infections is France with 3,112,055. 

White House confirms, from today stop to Europe-USA travel


The White House has confirmed that American President Joe Biden will again impose a ban on entering the United States on most non-US citizens from the United Kingdom from tomorrow (today in Italy) , Brazil, Ireland and most of Europe.

And it will also extend this ban to those arriving from South Africa, after the reports of the new variants in the US.

This decision is part of the plan of the new US democratic administration to fight the epidemic that is spreading in the country most affected by Covid-19, both in terms of infections (25.14 million) and deaths (over 419 thousand).

Argentina, vice president vaccinated with Sputnik V


The former president and current vice president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, received the first dose of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against coronavirus in a hospital in Avellaneda, in the province of Buenos Aires.

This was reported by the news channel Tn.

It was the Deputy Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires himself, Nicolás Kreplak, who applied the first of the two scheduled doses of the vaccine in the 'Presidente Perón' hospital.

Confirming the event via Twitter, Kirchner stressed: "This way I not only take care of myself, but also of others."

Dressed in white and wearing a mask with the reproduction of a hug between her and her late husband, former president Néstor Kirchner, she then offered herself to the photographers showing the certificate she received from the hospital.

Before her, President Alberto Fernández, the Governor of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, and the ministers of Health of the Nation, Ginés González García, and of the Province of Buenos Aires, Daniel had already decided to inoculate the first dose of the Sputnik V vaccine. Gollán.

Argentina is one of the countries that made the first choice to use the drug from the Russian laboratory Gamaleya.

Two flights of the company Aerolineas Argentina have already transported 600,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine days ago and tomorrow another national airline plane will leave for Moscow, with the aim of bringing back another 600,000 doses. 

Mexico, President López Obrador positive


Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has announced that he has contracted Covid-19, showing "mild symptoms" of the disease.

Via Twitter, the Mexican head of state added that he had already undergone medical treatment.

"As always - he underlined - I am optimistic and we will all go forward".

López Obrador, who is 67 years old and had recently participated in an inauguration ceremony of installations of the National Guard in San Luis Potosí, wanted to specify that for the coming days his daily presidential press conference will be held by the Minister of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero.

The Mexican president then announced that despite the situation and the quarantine to which he is subjected, he will continue to follow public affairs from the Presidential Palace.

And he also confirmed the phone call on the agenda tomorrow (today in Italy) with the Russian colleague Vladimir Putin regarding the possibility of receiving a quantity of Sputnik V vaccine. According to the Milenio TV, López Obrador is part of the vulnerable Mexican population, for his age , because he suffers from hypertension and because in 2013 he suffered a heart attack.

Colombia, over 2 million cases since the beginning of the pandemic


The number of infections from Covid-19 officially registered in Colombia since the beginning of the

pandemic

has exceeded 2 million, of which 1.8 have been cured, according to data from the American University Johns Hopkins.

The South American country of nearly 50 million inhabitants has reported nearly 51,000 deaths linked to the new coronavirus so far.

Bolivia, on the other hand, has reached 200,000 infections, of which 145,000 have been cured, according to the same source.

In this country of over 11 million inhabitants, 9,930 died from Covid-19.

Source: ansa

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