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Covid-19: record of deaths in 24 hours worldwide, variants are spreading

2021-01-28T06:28:49.017Z


PANDEMIC UPDATE - New measures, new reports and highlights. An update on the latest developments in the Covid-19 pandemic around the world.


The pandemic is increasingly deadly around the world, with a new daily record of more than 18,000 deaths, and variants, much more contagious that continue to spread, pushing more and more countries to close their borders.

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The situation is getting darker: the worldwide number of officially recorded cases has exceeded 100 million and, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the new variants of the coronavirus continue to spread: the British affect 70 countries and the south -african 31.

  • Record of deaths in 24 hours

More than 18,000 deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded in 24 hours around the world, a new record, according to a count made Wednesday in the middle of the day by AFP.

From January 20 to 26, the world recorded 101,366 deaths.

It is the deadliest week since the start of the epidemic.

The pandemic has killed at least 2,159,155 people around the world, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Wednesday in the middle of the day.

More than 100,236,600 cases have been diagnosed.

The United States is the country with the most deaths (428,654).

Brazil (220,161), India (153,724), Mexico (152,016) and the United Kingdom follow, the first European country to have crossed the threshold of 100,000 deaths.

  • The executive procrastinates on the reconfinement, "different scenarios" studied

The executive still gave itself time to reflect before possibly giving a turn of the screw in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic, however, on Wednesday January 27 at the end of the Defense Council that the curfew at 6 pm "

does not sufficiently slow down

" the spread of the virus.

Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said "

different scenarios

" were being studied, which range from "

maintaining the current framework

", a track he deemed "

unlikely

", to "

confinement very tight

”.

  • EU puts pressure on AstraZeneca

The EU has called on the AstraZeneca laboratory, blamed in Europe for delays in the delivery of its vaccine, to use the production of two factories located in the United Kingdom to provide the doses promised to the 27.

According to a European source, the group plans to deliver in the 1st quarter only "

a quarter

" of the doses initially promised.

  • Increase in hospitalizations in France

The number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients continued to increase on Wednesday January 27 in France, reaching more than 27,000, including more than 3,100 in intensive care, according to the government website.

Hospitals had 1,931 new hospitalizations within 24 hours.

  • Variants are spreading

The number of countries and territories where the British variant of the coronavirus is found stood at 70 as of January 25, the World Health Organization has announced.

The South African variant which, like the British one, is much more contagious than the SARS-CoV-2 virus was, is present in 31 countries and territories.

Read also: Covid-19: scientists still fear the English variant as much

  • Discovery study stops testing remdesivir, Regeneron, effective against variants

The European clinical trial Discovery, which tests the effectiveness of drugs against Covid-19, "

stops testing remdesivir

", an antiviral treatment initially deemed promising, "for

lack of evidence of its effectiveness,

" Inserm announced on Wednesday in a statement.

Regeneron's synthetic antibody treatment remains effective against the British and South African variants, the US biotech company said on Wednesday.

  • Economic recovery will depend on the pandemic and vaccination

The US Central Bank, which left its interest rates unchanged on Thursday, December 28, stressed that the economic recovery in the United States depended on developments in the pandemic and the pace of vaccination as variants of the new coronavirus appear.

  • Slovakia imposes negative test to leave home

Slovakia has tightened its lockdown regime by requiring negative test results to be able to leave his home.

With the exception of those under 15 and over 65, everyone should have confirmation of a negative PCR or antigen test result, wherever they go: at work, at the doctor's office or at the grocer.

Source: lefigaro

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