Even as people were hoping for a good start to the New Year in terms of vaccination, the UK reported a new coronavirus variant in late 2020 that put England back into hard lock again and put down hopes on the face of vaccination. The variant appears to have spread to more than 30 countries around the world with Vietnam as the latest to report a case on Saturday. The country has banned almost all international travel but is running flights to retrieve missing nationals in the United Kingdom.
The United States is, by far, the worst country in the world with the highest number of cases of coronavirus infection (Covid-19) and India continues to have the second highest number of infections . At least three U.S. states have reported the new virus variant and the limited genetic sequence in the country may cause the strain to spread unrecognized in some parts.
Scientists, however, do not believe the new variant is more lethal or more stable for the vaccine. This is because viruses naturally contain mutations, but the strain is 70% more mobile than the original ones, so experts have advised people to be more careful. The winter season saw a sharp increase in coronavirus infections in European countries. Ireland has gone from being the lowest in the EU to coronavirus diseases to the fastest growing, according to the Guardian.
“Right now, we think the UK variability here is at a very low level, even with that small sample,” Philip Nolan, head of the Irish Covid-19 modeling group, told the Washington Post. “We saw an even more intense level of socialization and viral spread over Christmas than we might have expected, and that is what is driving us to the fragile state we are in now,” said Nolan.
In terms of vaccination, Israel has had the most impressive demonstration as the country has already delivered the first of two blows to more than a million of its citizens, the highest in the world . In contrast, U.S. efforts to vaccinate their population were vaccinated as 2.8 million people received the injection by Dec. 30, far behind the 20 million pledged by President Donald Trump before the end of the year.
In the UK, British health officials said their priority was to give as many people as possible the first impression to ensure partial safety as the country sought to address the issue. new version.
India on Sunday approved two Covid-19 vaccines developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca University and another developed by Bharat Biotech, paving the way for a major inoculation program to stop pandemic disease- coronavirus spread in the second most populous country in the world. General Drug Controller Dr VG Somani said both vaccines will be given in two doses.
It would take weeks before the effects of the first vaccine shots began and months before most people in the world could access them. Poor countries may have to wait even longer to evacuate their citizens.