Guatemala declares a state of emergency to contain a surge in Delta Covid infections. Here are other updates 🇷🇺 Russia reports highest daily death rate since pandemic began 🇩🇪 Germany logs 5,644 cases 🇯🇵 Tokyo daily cases hit 5,094 For more:
People walk past the San Juan de Dios hospital as the coronavirus continues, in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 15, 2020. Guatemala has declared a new state of emergency and will impose an overnight curfew from Sunday to contain a surge in Covid infections due to the Delta variant, President Alejandro Giammattei said.
Residents of Sydney, going into an eighth week under stay-at-home orders, will now face heftier fines for flouting rules or lying to contact tracers, with current restrictions proving insufficient to stop the spread.A total of 300 journalists have died from the virus in Brazil between January 2020, when the first virus case was confirmed in the country, and July 2021, according to a trade union organisation.
The new measures are an attempt to stem the rising tide of the virus cases that has pushed hospitals to the breaking point, including in the Dallas area, where top officials warned they are running out of beds in their pediatric intensive care units.Tokyo's new daily virus cases has hit 5,094, a day after marking a record of 5,773, the Tokyo government said.
"We know that vaccines are the best way to end this pandemic," said Dominic LeBlanc, a government minister in charge of Canada's federal bureaucracy.A deadline for inoculations for some 300,000 public servants will be announced in the coming weeks. The South American country has now registered a total of 567,862 coronavirus deaths and 20,319,000 total confirmed cases.The Canadian government has said it had signed an agreement with Moderna Inc for additional supply of its vaccine for 2022 and 2023, with an option to extend into 2024.
Those figures are up from the 353,859,894 vaccine doses the CDC said had gone into arms by August 12 out of 411,253,925 doses delivered. “We assure the public that key to our response is ensuring that there is continuity in the provision of essential health services in our country and we can only build on this,” Malama told reporters in the capital of Lusaka.
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