COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
Last updated: January 10, 2021, 19:04 GMT
Coronavirus Cases:
90,429,982
Deaths:
1,939,630
Recovered:
64,651,435
Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
US lawmakers may have been exposed to coronavirus during siege on Capitol
House lawmakers may have been exposed to someone testing positive for Covid-19 while they sheltered at an undisclosed location during the Capitol siege by a violent mob loyal to Donald Trump.
The Capitol’s attending physician notified all lawmakers Sunday of the virus exposure and urged them to be tested. The infected individual was not named, Associated Press.
New Covid variant from Brazil detected in Japan
Gauteng is likely to enter the peak of the second wave in two weeks’ time, according to Professor Mosa Moshabela, dean and head of Nursing and Public Health School at UKZN, ENCA reported
Moshabela says the exponential increase can be attributed to movements during the December holidays.
He is warning that it would get worse before it gets better.
“My sense is that Gauteng is unlikely to peak in the next week, we can expect perhaps in the next two weeks for Gauteng to peak and only then can we then begin to see a clear downward trend,” he said.
People in their 80s will get jab in Britain
Thousands of people 80 and older have started receiving invitations to get the coronavirus vaccine in England as Britain ramps up its national vaccination program in a bid to meet its target of inoculating about 15 million people by the middle of February.
More than 600,000 invitations are due to arrive at doorsteps across England this week, asking the elderly to sign up for jabs at new mass vaccination centres near them.
The government has given a first dose of the vaccine to more than 1.2 million people so far.
Japanese pray for end to pandemic in annual ice bath ritual
Men wearing traditional loin clothes and women dressed in white robes have clapped and chanted before going into an ice water bath during a Shinto ritual at a Tokyo shrine to purify the soul and pray for the end of the pandemic.
Only a dozen people took part in the annual event at Teppou-zu Inari Shrine, scaled down this year due to the health crisis, compared to over a hundred in early 2020. Spectators were not allowed at the event.
Growing frustration in Germany over slow vaccine rollout
UK ambulance crews wait up to nine hours to transfer patients to hospital
Nearly half of Switzerland’s restaurants and hotels risk bankruptcy within months failing financial support to weather devastating COVID-19 measures, the sector’s employer group warned Sunday, AFP reported
The group polled around 4,000 restaurant and hotel owners, and determined that 98 percent of them already are in urgent need of financial support.
Africa tops 3 million confirmed virus cases
Africa passed the milestone of three million confirmed cases Covid-19, including more than 72,000 deaths, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
South Africa accounts for more than 30% of the continent’s total with more than 1.2 million reported cases, including 32,824 deaths. The high proportion of cases in South Africa could be because the country carries out more tests than many other African countries.
South Africa is battling a resurgence of the disease, driven by a variant of the virus that is more contagious and spreading quickly.
Photo: Shinto ritual at a Tokyo shrine on Sunday to purify the soul and pray for the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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