The rise in BA.2 has been blamed for recent increases in China as well as a record number of infections in Europe, while South Korea leads the world in the average daily number of new cases, reporting more than 182,000 new infections a day and one in four. worldwide, according to a Reuters analysis. The new cases are growing in 20 of more than 240 countries and regions being monitored, including Taiwan, Thailand and Bhutan. Shanghai is battling China’s worst outbreak of COVID-19 since the new coronavirus first appeared in Wuhan in late 2019, with nearly 25,000 new local cases reported, although the city’s quarantine policy has been criticized for separating children by parents and the placement of asymptomatic cases among them with symptoms. “Preventing and controlling the Shanghai epidemic is at its most difficult and critical stage,” Wu Qianyu, an official with the Municipal Health Committee, said in a statement.
Various countries are still affected
In Canada, federal officials said the recent increase in Canada was due to the Omicron variant and the BA sub-variant.2. Some European countries are now seeing a slower rise in new cases, or even a decline, but the region still reports more than a million cases every two days, according to a Reuters count. In Germany, the average number of new infections in seven days has dropped to almost 60 percent of its previous peak in late March. New cases are also declining in the UK and Italy, while remaining stable in France. Overall, COVID-19 cases in the United States have fallen sharply since reaching record levels in January, but the resurgence of cases in parts of Asia and Europe has raised concerns that another wave could follow in the United States. CLOCKS Shanghai facilitates 2-week COVID-19 lock:
Shanghai facilitates 2-week COVID-19 lock
Officials in Shanghai are allowing some people to come out of the two-week lockdown in order to stop the spread of COVID-19. Residents complained that they did not have access to food and medicine. 4:06
The U.S. National Public Health Administration said Monday that Omicron subtype BA.2 is estimated to account for nearly three out of every four coronavirus variants in the country.
BA.2 variant now accounts for about 86 percent of all sequencing cases worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. It is known to be more contagious than the BA.1 and BA.1.1 Omicron variants. However, the evidence so far shows that BA.2 is no longer likely to cause serious illness.
65% of the world’s population has at least 1 dose of the vaccine
Scientists continue to stress that vaccines are critical to preventing the damage that the virus can cause. About 65 percent of the world’s population has received at least one dose of COVID vaccine, although only about 15 percent of people in low-income countries have received at least one dose, according to Our World in Data. While cases have recently erupted in Europe and Asia, the United States still has the highest total COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began at 80.41 million, followed by India with 43.04 million and Brazil with 30. , 14 million. By 2020, about 37 percent of COVID-19 cases worldwide are in Europe, 21 percent in Asia, and 17 percent in North America. About 6.5 million people have lost their lives to COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The United States has reported the highest death toll, followed by Russia, Brazil and India. Russia surpassed Brazil in having the second highest number of deaths in the world since COVID-19, according to data from Russia’s state statistics service and Reuters estimates on Thursday.
