Six deaths, 787 new cases of contamination and 1,472 recoveries were confirmed in the Kingdom on July 16 and 17, 2022. The still active cases amount to 14,861, while more than 6.59 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 32 cases of contamination, 9 recoveries and no deaths. The country totals 266,424 cases of contamination, including 6,875 deaths and 178,769 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, 123 cases of contamination have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has recorded 61,763 cases of Covid-19 contamination, including 986 deaths.
China recorded its highest number of Covid-19 cases since May on Saturday and millions of people across the country were spending the weekend in confinement under the strict “zero covid” policy.
A total of 450 cases of Covid-19, mostly asymptomatic, were registered nationally on Saturday, once morest 432 the day before, according to authorities. This increase in cases this week led to the adoption of new restrictions in several parts of the country. Lanzhou, the capital of northwestern Gansu province, on Wednesday ordered its 4.4 million residents to stay at home. One of the counties in Anhui Province (east) has been in lockdown since Friday.
Seven positive cases of Covid-19 have been detected in the Japanese marathon team present at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene (Oregon), including two athletes, World Athletics and the Japanese federation announced on Saturday.
“The cluster includes two athletes, four members of the staff of the endurance events and the main coach of the team”, write the two institutions in a joint press release.
“World athletics, the organizers and the Japanese federation are working together to prevent other members of the delegation from being in the same spaces as other delegations,” the statement said. The event’s Covid protocol required all attendees to present a negative test the day before their arrival in Eugene, with no obligation to test themselves followingwards.
The pandemic has officially killed at least 6,386,271 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 (1,048,693), ahead of Brazil (675,145), India (525,660) and Russia (381,835).
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.