No deaths, 74 new cases of contamination and 35 recoveries were confirmed in the Kingdom on April 8 and 9, 2022. The still active cases stand at 773, while more than 6.17 million 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 last assessment stopped reports 7 new cases infected with Covid-19 and 3 recoveries. The country totals 265,714 cases of contamination, including 6,874 deaths and 178,318 recoveries.
In Tunisia, 166 new cases of contamination, 2 deaths and 1,208 recoveries have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has totaled 1,037,358 cases of contamination, including 28,425 deaths and 983,630 recoveries since March 2020.
In Mauritania, a case of contamination and a cure have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has recorded 58,675 cases of Covid-19 contamination, including 982 deaths and 57,684 recoveries.
The United States on Friday authorized the “voluntary departure” of its non-essential diplomats from the American consulate in Shanghai, China, and recommended that Americans not go there due to the strict confinement imposed once morest Covid-19. The families of all US personnel are also allowed to leave, the US State Department said in a statement.
A new warning to American travelers recommends “not to travel” to Shanghai, the economic capital of China, “due to restrictions linked to Covid-19, in particular the risk of separation between parents and their children”.
Faced with the worst wave of the virus in China since the start of the epidemic, Shanghai has been in total or partial confinement for two weeks. Under very strict health measures, the 25 million Shanghainese are forced to stay at home.
In France, the number of people hospitalized with a diagnosis of Covid-19 increased further on Friday, but the number of contaminations recorded in 24 hours is falling, according to figures published Friday by the health authorities. Hospitals are currently receiving 23,404 Covid-19 patients, compared to 23,272 the day before and 22,066 a week earlier.
However, this increase is not reflected in the intensive care units, which treat 1,554 patients with the most serious forms of the disease. An almost stable number compared to that of Thursday (1,572) and that of last Friday (1,537).
The number of contaminations seems to be decreasing. Pharmacies and laboratories recorded 148,768 positive cases in 24 hours, once morest 158,792 the day before.
Governments and development banks on Friday made aid pledges totaling $4.8 billion to allow the poorest countries access to anti-Covid vaccines.
“To put it simply, until we defeat Covid-19 everywhere, we will not defeat it anywhere,” argued German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the opening of a donor conference in favor of the international Covax mechanism for access to vaccines.
At the end of this online conference, organized under the aegis of Germany, Senegal and Indonesia, the governments of developed countries pledged a total of 3.8 billion dollars in aid. For their part, the development banks, including the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, must provide an additional billion.
The pandemic has officially killed at least 6,198,682 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 (1,011,665), ahead of Brazil (661,182), India (521,686) and Russia (371,169).
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 might be two to three times higher than that officially established.
