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More than 2.6 million dead: a year to announce the corona plague
On March 11 last year, about 4,600 victims of the virus were known, and the World Health Organization determined that it was a global danger.
Since then millions have died and fallen ill and billions have entered a kind of closure, but vaccines give new hope with the start of the second year of the epidemic
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Thursday, 11 March 2021, 16:43 Updated: 19:12
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The world marks today (Thursday) a year since the World Health Organization announced the corona plague.
Vaccines developed against the virus over the past 12 months provide hope, but large sections of humanity are still living under restrictions on their lives, with no clear way back to normal.
With the start of the second year of the global epidemic, many eyes are on Brazil, where a record 2,286 deaths were recorded in the past day.
The surge in the number of dead and infected in the South American country has been linked to an infectious variant that has developed in the Amazon region and worries experts.
In many cities in Brazil hospitals are on the verge of collapse due to the congestion in Corona patients.
The number of dead and infected in Brazil is the second highest in the world, after the United States, where a $ 1.9 trillion incentive package was approved yesterday, one of the highest in history.
"It takes politicians a long time to act. We pay for it, poor thing," said 40-year-old Edilson Menzes, outside a hospital in Sao Paulo, the country's largest city.
Despite opposition from far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who continues to underestimate the danger of the virus, the city has shut down non-essential businesses in an effort to delay the spread of the disease.
The situation is out of control.
Corona Department in Brasilia (Photo: Reuters)
At the time of the official announcement of a global epidemic on March 11 last year, the official death toll worldwide was about 4,600.
Today, it has reached more than 2.6 million people.
The plague even hit the global economy hard, forcing democratic states to impose other drastic closures and restrictions not seen since World War II.
Hours after the World Health Organization announcement, American actor Tom Hanks, who was filming in Australia, announced that he had contracted the virus and increased fears that no one was immune.
However, then-US President Donald Trump was not impressed by the severity of the threat.
"The virus will not be a risk against us," promised Trump, who himself fell ill in Corona late last year and was even hospitalized.
Weeks after leaving the White House on January 20, the United States recorded a dismal milestone with half a million dead, a figure that has since climbed to more than 528,000 - more than the total United States casualties in the two world wars combined.
In those days, the only known protection against the virus was masks and reducing social interaction.
The aviation industry has stopped reigning, and billions of people have entered a kind of closure.
"We are preparing for war," said Corinne Cranker, head of a network of hospitals in eastern France, on March 11 last year, when the number of sick and dead began to skyrocket.
He said that "the virus has no chance against us" - and contracted it.
Trump (Photo: Reuters)
At the same time, governments and scientists around the world have begun announcing the epidemic in a race to develop vaccines that has progressed at an unprecedented rate.
A number of vaccines have already been approved for use, some developed by Western companies such as Pfizer and Modern, and others in China, Russia and India.
The global vaccination campaign has highlighted the large gaps, which have only widened in the past year, between rich and poor countries.
The global Covax program, which is supposed to help countries beyond their reach, was recently launched with the hope that vulnerable populations will also be able to get vaccinated.
Israel is the country that has so far vaccinated the largest number of civilians relative to its size, while the United States vaccination campaign has begun to gain momentum in recent weeks.
Biden promises that there will be enough vaccines for the entire adult population by May.
European countries, where the rate of vaccinations is particularly slow, received a positive message today after the pharmaceutical agency approved the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is given in one dose.
Similar to the vaccine developed by Astrazenica and Oxford, it is easier to transport and store than those developed by Pfizer and Moderna and need storage in extreme cold conditions.
However, some European countries have announced that they are suspending the use of Astraznica vaccines following a string of reports of deaths and other problems, although it is not yet clear that there is a direct link between the two.
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