Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa gives in to calls for lockdown. Other Covid19 updates: 🇺🇸 US Covid anxiety rising amid Delta surge – poll 🇻🇳 Vietnam to deploy troops, issues stay-home order 🇮🇳 India approves first DNA vaccine against virus Read more 👉
A medical official stands next to coffins for bodies of coronavirus disease victims at Judicial Medical Officer's premises in Colombo, Sri Lanka on August 20, 2021. Sri Lanka has announced a nationwide lockdown on Friday, bowing to intense pressure from medical experts as coronavirus infections overwhelmed hospitals, morgues and crematoriums.
Rambukwella said 10 days ago on August 10 that the country had not reached a "critical stage" and any lockdown would be a "last resort".US Covid anxiety rising amid delta surge, poll finds That is up from 21 percent in June, and about the same as in January, during the country's last major surge, when 43 percent were extremely or very worried.Vietnam will deploy troops in Ho Chi Minh City and prohibit residents from leaving their homes, authorities said.
Police with loudspeakers were seen driving around residential areas on Friday instructing people to follow protocols and assuring them food supplies would be provided. The company said it plans to manufacture 100 million to 120 million doses of ZyCoV-D annually and has started to stockpile the vaccine.
The drugmaker said the shot is administered using a needle-free applicator as opposed to traditional syringes. South Africa has opened eligibility to all adults to step up the volume of inoculations as it battles a surge in the disease driven by the delta variant. South Africa has so far vaccinated more than 10 million people, of which more than 4.6 million are fully vaccinated.Drug firm AstraZeneca announced positive results from a trial of a treatment for Covid-19 symptoms.
The data show that one dose could "quickly and effectively prevent symptomatic Covid-19", said Myron Levin, principal trial investigator. The moves follow a similar measure announced to staff by Royal Bank of Canada on Thursday as companies battle the spread of the coronavirus in their offices. RBC will also require all employees to be fully vaccinated by October 31 to work in its locations, according to an internal note from Chief Human Resources Officer Helena Gottschling to global employees on Thursday.
Health regulators in June had added a warning to the literature that accompanies the mRNA vaccines produced by Moderna and Pfizer to flag the rare risk of heart inflammation seen primarily in young males. There might be a 2.5 times higher incidence of myocarditis in those who get the Moderna vaccine compared with Pfizer's vaccine, the Post quoted a source as saying.The UK health regulator has approved Ronapreve, the antibody developed by Roche and Regeneron, to prevent and treat the virus.
Around half of the country's 600 patients presently hospitalised with severe illness have received two doses of the Pfizer Inc shot, a rare occurrence out of 5.4 million fully vaccinated people. The speed and severity of Japan's Delta-driven infections are overtaking the strategy of targeted cluster tracing it has favoured over the mass testing used by many nations.Three US senators from different political affiliations and different parts of the country have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Republican Senator Roger Wicker, 70, tested positive earlier Thursday "after immediately seeking a test due to mild symptoms," his office said in a statement. Chiba a martial artist and imposing actor known for his legendary fight scenes, was best known in the West for his role as sword maker Hattori Hanzo in the "Kill Bill" series of films.Mexican health authorities have reported 23,006 new Covid-19 cases and 850 more deaths, bringing the total number of infections in the country since the pandemic began to 3,175,211 and the total confirmed death toll to 251,319.
Brazil has had 36,315 new cases of the novel coronavirus reported in the past 24 hours, and 979 deaths from Covid-19, the health ministry said. The inoculation campaign was hailed as a success story that helped drastically reduce infections in the country of nine million.
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