Covid: cases in the world exceed 108 million

Coronavirus cases globally have exceeded 108 million in the last few hours: this is what emerges from data from the Johns Hopkins Universirty.

    According to the American university, the toll of infections in the world since the beginning of the pandemic is 108,186,991, including 2,382,880 deaths.

Overall, 60,587,212 people have healed so far. 

The coronavirus epidemic continues to run in

, where 1,288 deaths and 51,546 new cases have been recorded in the last 24 hours.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the victims have risen to 237,489 compared to 9,765,455 infections.

The vaccinated are 4,907,677, equal to 2.32 per cent of the population.

The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has exceeded in

50,000, while today a plane of the company Aerolineas Argentina brought another 400,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine from Moscow to Buenos Aires. According to the latest daily report by the Ministry of Health, another 155 people have died in the last 24 hours death toll since the beginning of the pandemic last March at 50,029.

At the same time, the number of infected people, with the last 7,151, rose to 2,015,496.

The report specifies that the number of people admitted to intensive care is currently 3,538 nationwide, with an occupancy of 54.6% of the beds throughout the territory and 59.8% in the metropolitan area of ​​Buenos Aires.

Meanwhile, an Argentine aircraft returned from the Russian capital last night with a load of 400,000 doses of Sputnik V vaccine developed by the Gamaleya laboratory, which are added to the 920,000 already received since December 2020, and which will allow the vaccination campaign of health personnel to advance and the groups most at risk of the population.

In

, the Ministry of Health aims to bring forward the approval of the coronavirus vaccine developed by the US Pfizer to Sunday, a few days after the arrival of the first supplies, for a total of 400 thousand doses in the country.

This was revealed by sources familiar with the dossier to the Kyodo agency, explaining that the US pharmaceutical company presented the request in Japan last December and initially the green light of the health authorities should have taken place next week.

With an acceleration of administrative procedures, sources said, vaccine administrations could start next Wednesday for about 20 thousand people including doctors and nurses in 100 hospitals.

The Tokyo government has signed agreements with three pharmaceutical companies for the supply of the first 157 million doses, more than enough to cover the approximately 126 million inhabitants of the archipelago.

Of these, 72 million will be produced by Pfizer, and the rest by Moderna and AstraZeneca.

About 20,000 cold rooms have already been distributed in hospitals for the first vaccine available, that of Pfizer, which has shown efficacy close to 95% in clinical trials conducted globally.

The Minister of Health of

Pilar Mazzetti resigned after the controversy following the news that the former president Martin Vizcarra would have been vaccinated against Covid 19 before the drug was made available to the public and in particular to the categories most at risk.

State TV reported it.

Mazzetti had been the country's health minister since July last year and presented his letter of resignation to President Francisco Sagasti, who has not yet formally accepted them.

According to local media, his successor is expected to be sworn in today, and will be the fifth health minister of the South American nation since the pandemic first appeared in the country 11 months ago.

He will take office as the country continues to be hammered by a second wave of Covid-19: hospitals are full, 14,100 patients with Covid 19 admitted yesterday and lack of oxygen.

Peru began its immunization program on Tuesday, two days after receiving 300,000 doses of the vaccine from Chinese state-owned Sinopharm.