One death, 78 new cases of contamination and 103 recoveries were confirmed in the Kingdom on August 19 and 20, 2022. The still active cases stand at 723, while more than 6.73 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 latest assessment stopped reports 94 cases of contamination and 84 recoveries. The country totals 269,650 cases of contamination, including 6,878 deaths and 181,251 recoveries.
In Tunisia, 181 cases of contamination, 341 recoveries and no deaths have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has totaled 1,141,668 cases of contamination, including 29,207 deaths and 1,126,568 recoveries since March 2020.
In Mauritania, 2 new cases of contamination have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has recorded 62,726 cases of contamination, including 992 deaths.
The Canadian federal ministry gave the green light on Friday to administer a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech anti-Covid vaccine to children aged 5 to 11.
The chief administrator of the Public Health Agency of Canada, Dr Theresa Tam, stressed that updating vaccines before the fall was a top priority.
This booster dose offers an excellent option for restoring protection to this age group, especially for those at high risk of disease, she explained. The booster dose can be given at least six months following the second dose. This is the first Covid-19 vaccine authorized as a booster dose for this age group in the country.
According to the National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI), 42% of the population aged 5 to 11 in Canada had received two vaccines as of July 17, 2022.
Chinese health authorities are now also testing fish caught at sea to ensure they are not carriers of SARS-Cov-2, in hopes of limiting the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
Videos of anti-Covid screenings carried out on fish in the port city of Xiamen have accumulated several thousand views and provoked many reactions on social networks.
The pandemic has officially killed at least 6,467,104 people worldwide since the end of December 2019.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (1,064,780), ahead of Brazil (682,276), India (527,253) and Russia (383,427).
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.
