Sri Lanka and other Asian countries announced more restrictions
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After more than 664,500 Covid-19 infections and 12,407 deaths detected in the last 24 hours worldwide and in order to mitigate the expansion, Sri Lanka announced tough restrictions and Thailand warned that it could tighten the measures in force after reaching a daily record of contagions.
Health officials from Sri Lanka banned New Year festival activities that were to be held on April 14 and asked that the gatherings for the rituals be limited to members of the immediate family and close relatives, without exceeding 100 people.
Meanwhile, in Thailand the alarms were set after the Ministry of Health confirmed this Sunday 967 cases of Covid-19, the highest number in one day and which is remote from a re-outbreak that originated last March in Bangkok, after maintaining the virus under control most of the year.
The deputy director general of the country’s Department of Disease Control, Dr. Sophon Iamsirithaworn, warned that if the number of cases continues to increase in two weeks, it will be necessary to implement measures beyond the current restrictions on nightlife and the rules of distancing in force.
Another concern for Thailand is the delay in vaccination against the coronavirus of its 69 million inhabitants, which according to the deputy government spokesperson, Traisuree Taisaranakul, 537,380 doses had been applied in 77 provinces as of last Friday.
Thailand warned that it could tighten current measures after reaching a daily record
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In the middle of the fourth wave of infections and with 23 of the 31 provinces reconfigured since last week, Iran reported 258 deaths from coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest number since the beginning of last December.
The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Health, Sima Sadat Lari, also reported another 21,063 cases on the day before, bringing the total to more than 2 million, in addition to 64,490 deaths, according to the DPA news agency.
While, in Pakistan the epidemiological curve of Covid-19 increases accelerated and is approaching the peak of last June, with more than 5,000 infections in the last day, which establishes a weekly average of over 4,500 infections.
In order to control the increase in infections and deaths, which reached a daily record of 114, the authorities decided to extend the ban on intercity passenger transport on weekends until mid-month.
In the middle of the upward trend of coronavirus infections, India banned exports of remdesivir, a drug used in the treatment of patients infected with the virus, after detecting that the increase in cases caused a “sudden increase in demand” for the drug, reported the Ministry of Health.
“There is the possibility that this demand will increase in the coming days,” the ministry stressed, quoted by the AFP news agency, after India counted 152,000 Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours and reached more than 13.3 million cases and nearly 170,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic.
USA: In Michigan, New York and New Jersey infections have started to rise again
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A similar scenario was anticipated in the United States by President Joe Biden’s main medical consultant, virologist Anthony Fauci, who warned that the country could face a “significant increase in the peak of infections” of Covid-19 in the coming days and despite of the iron campaign of vaccination.
“In some states, such as Michigan, New York and New Jersey, infections have started to increase again instead of stabilizing, and this is worrying,” the specialist described.
The country hardest hit by the pandemic accumulated 81,376 infections and 904 deaths on the eve, according to the latest update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The same fate runs the second most affected country by the pandemic, Brasil, where according to statistics from the UCI Project, the number of people under 40 years of age with coronavirus who had to be admitted to intensive care last March exceeded that of older groups.
Specifically, the number of people aged 39 years or less hospitalized in intensive care units for Covid-19 increased considerably in March and surpassed the barrier of 11,000, that is, 52.2% of the total, according to the UCI Project.
At the beginning of the pandemic, this figure was only 14.6%, and between September and February, 45%, and experts attribute the reasons to the spread of the new Brazilian variant P1 or Manaus, to which the majority of patients over 80 years of age are vaccinated and the propensity of those under 40 either because they leave their homes to work or because they think they are less vulnerable.
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