COVID gets a new appearance. Because of a steady increase driven by the delta virus strain, the number of illnesses in Germany has climbed to its highest level in almost three months. On Saturday, the Robert Koch Institute, the country’s disease control center, said that 51. 6 new cases per 100,000 people had been reported in the preceding seven days.
The infection rate has gone over 50% for the first time since May 25, but it has been gradually increasing since hitting a low of 4.9 percent in early July. According to the disease control center, 8,092 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, up from 5,644 instances the previous week. As summer vacations finish and children return to school in some parts of Germany, a rise in the number of cases has been observed.
An Increase In The Prevalence Of Virus Infection Has Been Seen In Germany
Officials in Germany have been trying to re-energize the country’s COVID-19 vaccination program, which has slowed dramatically in recent years. According to official government data, 63.8 percent of Germany’s population had received at least one vaccination dose by Thursday, and 58.5 percent had been fully vaccinated.
As the nation tightens limits on people’s movement in the wake of a growing coronavirus epidemic, the Vietnamese government has announced that troops would be sent to Ho Chi Minh City to help in the delivery of food and relief supplies to locals. Army soldiers will be deployed to help with logistics, according to a report posted on the government website on Friday, as the ten-million-strong city encourages residents to “stay put” for two weeks starting Monday.
The news comes as Vietnam, which had mostly dodged the outbreak by reporting just a few cases, revealed more than 10,000 new illnesses and 390 deaths on Friday. 3,500 of the diseases were caused by the city of Ho Chi Minh City.
Since June, Ho Chi Minh City has enacted strict coronavirus prevention measures, including prohibiting large public gatherings of more than two people and allowing residents to leave their homes only for essential activities such as shopping or school planning in certain permitted businesses, among other things. The new rules would make it illegal for those living in high-risk areas to leave their homes.
A hospital in a Honolulu suburb reported a surge of COVID-19 cases on Friday, causing the facility to overflow. All 104 beds at The Queen’s Medical Center – West Oahu are currently filled, according to Jason Chang, CEO of The Queen’s Health Systems. Some Ewa Beach hospital patients have been moved to a sister facility in downtown Honolulu. Employees from other parts of the Queen’s system have also been asked to help with the project.
Outside the hospital, the city has set up a triage tent with 25 beds that are available 24 hours a day. The hospital may also put beds in hallways and other temporary locations, but not all patients will be able to use them. Chang said that at one time, the hospital’s emergency room had 63 patients in it, which he characterized as a catastrophe given the facility’s restricted number of ER beds (24 total).
“A total of 266 individuals were treated in the emergency department for suspected COVID-19 infections.” A federal team of health care experts has been sent to a coastal Alabama hospital that has been ‘crushed’ by a surge of COVID-19 patients, according to the state health officer.
The US Department of Health and Human Services is sending a task force team to the South Baldwin Regional Medical Center in Foley, Alabama, according to State Health Officer Scott Harris. The task force will comprise nurses, a doctor, and others. In the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, similar aid had been sent.
