6 deaths, 156 new cases of contamination and 694 recoveries were confirmed in the Kingdom on February 28 and March 1, 2022. The still active cases amount to 3,723, while more than 5.77 million people received the third dose. Monitoring the pandemic, in figures.
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In the Maghreb, Algeria does not communicate the number of screening tests, which suggests that the number of contaminations is much higher than the official figures. The last assessment stopped reports 81 new cases infected with Covid-19, 4 deaths and 76 recoveries. The country totals 264,936 cases of contamination, including 6,835 deaths and 177,513 recoveries.
In Tunisia, 476 new cases of contamination, 11 deaths and 3,056 recoveries have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has totaled 998,230 cases of contamination, including 27,784 deaths and 950,873 recoveries since March 2020.
In Mauritania, a new case of contamination and 2 recoveries have been recorded, according to the latest report available. The country has recorded 58,633 cases of Covid-19 contamination, including 979 deaths and 57,604 recoveries.
South Africa has recorded no deaths linked to Covid in 48 hours, a first since May 2020 for the country officially the most affected on the continent, the country’s health authorities announced on Tuesday.
The National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) announced the news in its daily count of cases, reported from across the country, triggering cautious optimism.
The last time the country had not recorded any deaths from Covid-19 to be deplored dates back to May 12, 2020.
The supermarket rush has resumed in Hong Kong with panic sparked by mixed messages from the government about the possibility of a city lockdown as the entire population is screened in March.
The Asian financial hub is currently experiencing its strongest wave of Covid-19, recording tens of thousands of cases every day, saturating the hospital system and undermining the city’s “zero Covid” strategy.
Authorities have planned to test the 7.4 million inhabitants in March and isolate each infected person, either permanently or in one of the camps being built with the help of China.
Queen Elizabeth II held two hearings via videoconference on Tuesday after being forced to cancel engagements last week because she had Covid-19, Buckingham Palace announced.
The health of the 95-year-old monarch, who tested positive for the virus on February 20, had raised concerns.
But she is now doing well enough to speak by videoconference with the new ambassadors of Chad and the Principality of Andorra from Windsor Castle where she resides.
The Queen last week canceled similar planned engagements with diplomats because she was suffering, according to her office, from “mild” Covid symptoms.
The Franco-Austrian laboratory Valneva has obtained an emergency use authorization in Bahrain for its vaccine against Covid-19, which represents the first authorization for its serum, it announced on Tuesday.
Bahrain’s health agency, NHRA, has granted authorization for emergency use of Valneva’s inactivated, adjuvanted Covid vaccine, “VLA2001,” the company said in a statement. Obtaining this authorization follows a process of progressive submission of the dossier to this authority.
Valneva, which had signed an advance purchase agreement with the Kingdom of Bahrain in December for the supply of one million doses of its vaccine, plans to deliver the first batches to it at the end of March.
The pandemic has officially killed at least 5,945,445 people worldwide since the end of December 2019, out of more than 433 million confirmed contaminations, according to a report established by AFP.
The United States is the country with the most deaths (950,347), ahead of Brazil (649,333) and India (513,843).
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, taking into account the excess mortality directly and indirectly linked to Covid-19, that the toll of the pandemic could be two to three times higher than that officially established.