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More than 300,000 people who tested positive for corona have now died in India. The number rises by 4454 to 303,720, according to health ministry data released Monday. The number of new positive tests is reported at 222,315. The total now stands at 26.75 million.
More than 50 million vaccine doses have now been injected in England. As revealed on Saturday by the latest figures from the health authority NHS, around 31.5 million people in England have received their first vaccine dose against Covid-19 since the start of the vaccination campaign in December up to and including Friday, and just under 18.7 million have also already received their second. That represents an overall increase of more than 560,000 additional vaccinations compared with the previous day, the Press Association news agency reported.
More than 40 percent of adults in England are already fully vaccinated, according to NHS figures. Since Saturday, 32- and 33-year-olds can now book vaccination appointments.
In the Czech Republic, the number of corona deaths has exceeded the symbolic threshold of 30,000. Since the beginning of the pandemic, 30,012 people have died in connection with coronavirus infection. This was revealed on Saturday by the figures of the Ministry of Health in Prague.
The country, which has a population of nearly 10.7 million, was at times among the hardest hit regions in Europe. In the meantime, the situation has improved greatly. Within seven days, 50 people per 100,000 inhabitants were still infected. More than 1.1 million citizens have already been fully vaccinated.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, more than one million people have died from the coronavirus so far, according to an analysis of official agency data by the Reuters news agency on Saturday. Most deaths occurred in Brazil, according to the report. There, more than 446,000 people died in the course of the pandemic.
- hp with materials from PA and Reuters/picture: pixabay.com
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