The spread of the highly contagious delta variant accounts for an estimated 83 percent of all COVID-19 cases across the country.
Yoshihide Suga
About 23 percent of Japanese are fully vaccinated, considerably short of the level believed necessary to have a meaningful effect on reducing the risk in the general population.Guinea pulls out of Olympics due to COVID concernsThe decision will keep five athletes from competing at the Tokyo Games. Minister of Sports Sanoussy Bantama Sow made the announcement in a letter Wednesday addressed to the president of the Guinean Olympic committee. He blamed the virus and its variants.
On Thursday, the health ministry released a statement saying the methodology in the study was misleading and strongly cautioned against attributing all of the excess deaths to COVID-19. The 400 million doses represent the collective effort by African countries to pursue doses outside the global COVAX project aimed at delivering vaccines to low-and middle-income nations, The COVAX effort has fallen behind in deliveries because India has imposed export controls on vaccines.
Slightly over 60 percent of the German population had received a first dose of vaccine by Thursday, while 48 percent were fully vaccinated. But the vaccination campaign has slowed in recent weeks.
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