Six deaths, 1,131 new cases of contamination and 1,666 recoveries were confirmed in the Kingdom on July 20 and 21, 2022. The still active cases amount to 11,138, while more than 6,619,812 people received the third dose. Monitoring the pandemic, in figures.
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In the Maghreb, Algeria does not communicate the number of screening tests, which suggests that the number of contaminations is much higher than the official figures. The latest assessment stopped reports 49 cases of contamination and 35 recoveries. The country totals 266,591 cases of contamination, including 6,875 deaths and 178,864 recoveries.
In Tunisia, 5,477 new cases of contamination and 2,011 recoveries have been recorded, according to the latest weekly report available. The country has totaled 1,052,180 cases of contamination, including 28,691 deaths and 1,032,789 recoveries since March 2020.
In Mauritania, 76 cases of contamination and 177 recoveries have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has recorded 62,108 cases of Covid-19 contamination, including 986 deaths and 59,877 recoveries.
Australian authorities on Wednesday urged businesses across the country to allow their employees to work from home following the worrying rise in Covid-19 infections. Authorities also recommended that citizens wear masks in closed spaces and get vaccinated as a matter of urgency.
Australian Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly warned in statements to local press of rising infections, noting that those infections will soon have to reach record levels.
More than 300,000 cases have been recorded in the past seven days, with authorities even estimating that the actual number could reach double. Around 5,300 Australians are currently in hospital following their Covid-19 infection, according to official data.
Figures in the states of Queensland, Tasmania and Western Australia are at their highest levels since the start of the pandemic.
Separately, so far, 95% of people over the age of 16 have received two doses of the vaccine, keeping the total number of Covid-19 infections to just under nine million. and deaths at 10,845, a figure well below those recorded in many countries.
The Covid-19 pandemic is not over, but the Scientific Council is preparing to bow out at the end of July, after almost two and a half years of activity, on final recommendations and some lessons.
Created in mid-March 2020, at the request of Emmanuel Macron, this ad hoc committee of around ten scientists will leave the stage on July 31. France will then officially end the state of health emergency, while the seventh epidemic wave seems to be in a downward phase and the executive insists that we must learn to “live with the virus”.
The final opinion of the Scientific Council, around fifty pages published on Wednesday, is not intended to be “a testament, nor a feedback even though the epidemic is not over”, but rather a “compass”.
For two years and four months, accompanied by “more than 300 meetings” and multiple interventions in the media, its members issued advice, in particular nearly 90 opinions or notes on the health situation and the means of countering epidemic waves.
The pandemic has officially killed at least 6,395,830 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, according to a report established by AFP.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (1,050,702), ahead of Brazil (676,280), India (525,870) and Russia (381,997).
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially established.