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The Mexican Ministry of Health on Saturday reported 7,785 newly confirmed cases of coronavirus in the country and another 832 deaths, bringing the total to 2,038,276 infections and 179,797 deaths.
The Ministry of Health probably said that the actual number of infected people and deaths is significantly higher than the official count.
02:12
In northern China, there are concerns and complaints among residents who have been locked up for more than 40 days.
China recently experienced its worst outbreaks since the first months of the pandemic. Gaocheng, a district of Shijiazhuang city with 800,000 people, was one of the worst hit, with more than 880 cases.
The South China Morning Post reports that there have been no new cases since Monday, and that authorities have adjusted the risk level directions for most of the district. Some residents in the city of Jiumen said that they were not lifted from the restrictions and that they were prevented from leaving. They have been locked up since mid-January, and residents say they are running out of food, and they have been ordered to take tests several times.
‘I’ve done the test 16 times already. I have not walked out of the house for more than a month. ‘He Pengfei, a 30-year-old restaurant owner in the city of Lianzhou, told Post. He said he was forced to close his business and go into debt.
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China reported seven new cases on the continent for Saturday, compared with eight cases a day earlier, the National Health Commission said.
All the new infections are imported cases, reads a statement. There were no new deaths.
China also reported six new asymptomatic patients, compared with 13 a day earlier. China does not classify asymptomatic cases as confirmed Covid-19 cases.
As of Saturday, China had 89,831 confirmed coronavirus infections on the continent, while the death toll remained at 4,636.
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Hello and welcome to our ongoing coverage of the pandemic. You can catch up on earlier updates here.
Here’s the latest.
- Australiaa started rolling out vaccines a day early, with the country’s prime minister among the first people to receive a dose on Sunday. “It’s safe, it’s important. Join us on this Australian road that will get us out of the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said.
- At the end of July, all adults in the UK are offered a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine. Boris Johnson said before an announcement how England will start facilitating its third exclusion.
- Israel reported a 95.8% drop in Covid-19 infection among those receiving two doses of Pfizer vaccine, his health ministry announced Saturday.
- A further 21 cases of the virus variant first discovered in the UK have been detected Morocco, his health ministry said the number of reported cases with the mutation is up to 24.
- Coronavirus cases are increasing in a number of Indian states, including Punjab, Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh. The increase in infections comes amid the detection of new virus variants in Maharashtra, reports the Times of India.
- France’s number of new cases of coronavirus compared to a week earlier increased for the third day in a row, with the Ministry of Health reporting 22,371 new cases on Saturday.
- Michaál Martin, the Taoiseach, has ruled out reopening Ireland’s hospitality sector until mid-summer due to the high level of Covid-19 cases in the country.
- Mexico’s Deputy Minister of Health has announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19and added that his symptoms are mild.
- Iran has closed several crossing points at its border with Iraq in an effort to limit the distribution of the Covid variant first detected in the country United Kingdom after being found in the country.
- British Health Secretary Matt Hancock has acted illegally by failing to publish more than $ 500 billion in Covid-19 government contracts within the 30-day period required by law, a Supreme Court judge ruled.
- More than 17 million people in the UK now had a first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to government figures.
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