Covid-19 wrap: Global death toll tops 793 000, Lebanon enforces new partial lockdown
Healthcare workers.New York City ahead of curve on Covid-19, but faces risks going into fall – experts
The rate of contagion also declined more quickly because the initial outbreak left between 25% and 50% of New Yorkers with some level of immunity, said Maria Lima, associate dean for research at the City University of New York School of Medicine. The percentage of people tested who turned out to have the virus declined from around 70% in late March to less than 1%, and confirmed deaths have declined from over 500 per day in April to the low single digits.
Health minister Sophia Chan had previously told a radio show she hoped five million people would participate. Hong Kong opposition figures have expressed fears that virus testing by mainland officials could help Beijing harvest Hong Kongers' DNA.More than 3 300 new Covid-19 infections have been detected in Hong Kong since July - more than 70 percent of the total since the disease first hit the city in late January.The number of daily cases is now dwindling after distancing measures were reimposed, but there are still several infections each day with no clear source.
After the US, the hardest-hit countries are Brazil with 112 304 deaths from 3 501,975 cases, Mexico with 59 106 deaths from 543 806 cases, India with 54 849 deaths from 2 905 823 cases, and the United Kingdom with 41 403 deaths from 322 280 cases. The government will provide masks for families with limited income on a case by case basis, Blanquer said on Friday as he visited a school in the Oise region in northern France, an area heavily affected by the virus.
Paediatricians on Wednesday called on the government to establish clear and precise strategies to deal with the discovery of a Covid-19 infection within a school. After initially casting doubt on the value of masks as an infection barrier, the French government has recently been promoting their useDenmark signs up for EU’s AstraZeneca vaccine deal
The EU has so far reached agreements with Sanofi-GSK, Johnson and Johnson and CureVac, in addition to AstraZeneca.
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