There are now more than 190 million confirmed cases of COVID and more than 4 million people worldwide have died of it, according to the World Health Organization.
The highly transmissible delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus causing the disease COVID-19, is now present in 124 countries and will become the dominant strain globally in the coming months as it is outcompeting other variants, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
The other three “variants of concern” are also spreading. The alpha variant, first detected in the U.K., is now in 180 countries, up from 172 last week; the beta variant, first detected in South Africa, is now in 130 countries, up from 123 last week; and the gamma variant that was first found in Brazil is present in 78 countries, up from 75 last week.
Read: Immunity provided by COVID-19 vaccines likely to ‘wane, not plummet,’ CDC director tells Congress A doctor in Alabama told a poignant and distressing tale on Facebook, as reported by news site Alabama.com, of patients begging for a vaccine when on the point of intubation. “I hold their hand and tell them that I’m sorry, but it’s too late,” said Dr. Brytney Cobia of Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham.The CDC’s vaccine tracker is showing how few people are signing up for shots, despite the public education campaign. It shows that 161.6 million Americans are fully vaccinated, equal to 48.
Outside of the U.S., up to two-thirds of India’s population may have been infected with COVID-19, a government study suggested on Tuesday, as AFP reported.
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