Tragic record of deaths with over 820 victims in 24 hours in Russia

Russia on Friday announced a new tragic death due to COVID-19 in 24 hours, as the immunization campaign is panting and no restrictive measures are being taken despite the wave of infections that has hit the country since June and is attributed to the most contagious Delta variant.

According to data released yesterday by the Russian government’s health crisis management center, 828 patients have died in the past 24 hours. The previous tragic record of 820 deaths was recorded twice, on Thursday 23 September and 26 August 2021.

The French Agency notes that Russia is the country of the European periphery that suffers the heaviest blow from the pandemic of the new coronavirus. 202,273 deaths have been reported from the pandemic under the restrictive government definition. Russia’s national statistics agency ROSSTAT, which takes into account the broader parameters, spoke of more than 350,000 due to the pandemic by the end of July 2021.

The immunization campaign, which is hampered by the distrust of a large part of the population, is moving at a slow pace, although several Russian vaccines have been developed for COVID-19. According to the Gogov website, only 28.4% of the Russian population has been fully vaccinated by this stage.

Authorities, in order not to hurt the economy, which has been facing problems for years, refuse to take restrictive measures or declare a lockdown. The use of a mask, although mandatory, and the observance of the so-called social distance are observed rather rarely.

The city of Moscow acknowledged this week that it is facing a second wave of the Delta variant after the summer. Cases in the Russian capital rose sharply in a week (+ 24%), as did hospital admissions (+ 15%).

The Russian presidency on Thursday again ruled out the possibility of large-scale measures; after the lockdown in the spring of 2020, no strict measures have been taken to protect the economy.

President Vladimir Putin, who has been in contact with a case as the Kremlin has recently become a hotbed of dozens of patients, has been in solitary confinement since the beginning of last week.

South Korea: Second consecutive day with a negative record of new cases

For the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, cases of the new coronavirus confirmed in the past 24 hours in South Korea exceeded the limit of three thousand, the Korean Office of Disease Control and Prevention (KDCA) announced today Saturday.

The so-called fourth wave of the pandemic apparently intensified a festive three days.

3,273 SARS-CoV-2 infections were diagnosed, breaking the previous record (2,434), of which 3,245 were due to community transmission. Seven other patients with COVID-19 died during the same period.

The pandemic of the new coronavirus in the country has reached 2,441 dead so far out of a total of 298,402 cases.

77% of communicable cases were reported in Seoul and around the metropolitan area of ​​the capital, where about half of the population of 52 million live.

Both the mortality rate and the number of patients treated in a serious to critical condition remain relatively low, at 0.82% and 339 respectively, mainly thanks to the vaccination campaign, which focused on older citizens who present high risk of developing the severe form of the disease.

Until yesterday, in the country of 52 million inhabitants, 72.3% of the population (37.13 million citizens) had received a dose of COVID-19 vaccine, while 44% (22.58 million) have been fully immunized.

Brazil: 699 deaths and over 19,000 cases in 24 hours

The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced yesterday Friday that 699 patients with COVID-19 died in the previous 24 hours and 19,438 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed.

With 593,663 dead after the new coronavirus pandemic broke out in its territory, the giant Latin American country with 212 million inhabitants records the second heaviest report in the world in absolute terms, behind the USA. The number of reported cases is 21,327,616, with Brazil ranking third in the world in terms of infections, behind the US and India, according to official data.

The country is approaching the tragic milestone of 600,000 deaths. However, as vaccination progresses, the rolling average of deaths seen daily in seven days has fallen below one-fifth of the nearly 3,000 reported when the pandemic peaked in April.

Mexico: 564 deaths and over 10,000 cases in 24 hours

The Mexican Ministry of Health announced yesterday Friday that another 564 patients with COVID-19 died in the past 24 hours and 10,139 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed.

With 274,703 deaths since it broke out in its territory until yesterday, the country of 126 million inhabitants records the 4th heaviest report of the pandemic of the new coronavirus in the world in absolute terms. The recorded cases reached 3,619,115, according to the data of the ministry, but its executives admit that they are very underestimated in relation to reality.

Iran: 284 deaths and more than 15,000 cases in 24 hours

The Iranian Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 15,294 cases of SARS-CoV-2 had been diagnosed in the past 24 hours and 284 patients with COVID-19 had died.

The outbreak of the new coronavirus pandemic in the Islamic Republic has reached 118,792 deaths since its outbreak in February 2020, out of a total of 5,508,885 infections, according to official figures.

6,502 patients with COVID-19 are being treated in intensive care units (ICUs) of Iranian hospitals.

As of yesterday, in the country of approximately 83 million inhabitants, more than 34 million citizens had received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, of which 15.09 million and the second.

Iran has been facing a new, deadly wave of pandemics – attributed to the most contagious Delta variant – in recent months.

Indonesia: Over 2,500 cases and 144 deaths in 24 hours

The Indonesian Ministry of Health announced yesterday Friday that 144 patients with COVID-19 died in the previous 24 hours and 2,557 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were diagnosed.

The new coronavirus pandemic in the archipelago of 270 million people has reached 141,258 dead out of a total of 4,204,116 infections since it broke out in Indonesia in March 2020.

More than 85.01 million people, including 47.77 million, have received the COVID-19 vaccine since the immunization campaign began in the world’s fourth most populous country. The Indonesian government seeks to vaccinate more than 208 million people – 80% of the population – to achieve collective immunity.

Myanmar: Nearly 1,700 cases and 70 deaths in 24 hours

The Myanmar Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 1,667 cases of SARS-CoV-2 had been confirmed in the past 24 hours and that 70 patients had been diagnosed with COVID-19.

The death toll from the pandemic of the new coronavirus from its outbreak in the Asian country of approximately 55 million inhabitants, on March 23, 2020, until yesterday reached 17,413 deaths out of a total of 455,074 infections, according to official data.

Italy: 52 deaths and almost 3,800 cases in 24 hours

The Italian Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 52 patients with COVID-19 had died in the past 24 hours, compared with 63 the previous day, while the number of confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 dropped to 3,797, from 4,061 a day earlier, on total 277,508 tests.

With 130,503 deaths due to the new coronavirus pandemic since it broke out in its territory in February 2020 until yesterday, Italy, with a population of 60 million, officially records the 2nd highest official death toll in Europe, after Britain, and the 9th highest in the world. 4.65 million infections have been diagnosed.

The number of patients being treated in hospitals with COVID-19 – excluding those admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) – fell to 3,553 yesterday, up from 3,650 a day earlier.

In the ICU, 35 patients were admitted, compared to 30 the previous year. The total number of patients admitted to the ICU was reduced to 489, from 505 one day earlier.

Germany: Over 7,000 cases and 62 deaths in 24 hours

Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany have risen by 7,211 in the past 24 hours to 4,188,604, according to data released Saturday by the Robert Koch Institute, the country’s epidemiological watchdog.

The deaths of 62 patients with COVID-19 have increased the death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic in the country to 93,365 dead to date, according to the same source.