This is a strange circumstance that the world is currently going through. While the West is preoccupied with Christmas, the approaching sunset of 2022 and the coming of 2023; The rivalry between major powers over the health crisis is getting pathetic. There is no major country except that the cumulative number of its injuries since the outbreak of the Corona virus has increased to a greater number. It was a strange coincidence that it happened on Christmas Eve. Okaz monitored this as follows:
– America, the cumulative number of its injuries has risen to 102 million.
– France (third after America and India), the number of injuries rose yesterday to 39 million.
– Germany (fourth in the world), the number of its injuries yesterday became 37 million.
– Brazil (fifth in the world), the number of injuries has reached 36 million.
– Japan jumped to 28 million injuries.
Italy: 25 million injuries.
Australia: 11 million.
Chile: Its cumulative number of injuries rose to 5 million.
Most of those forces, on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, provided a large number of new infections per day. On Thursday, the United States recorded 70,435 new cases. It is a new leap, while America is witnessing an unprecedented winter storm, which prevented planes from taking off and canceled train trips. On Friday, America recorded 70,509 new injuries, in the second jump in the number of its new injuries in the range of 70,000. In another disturbing development; The US Centers for Disease Control and Control announced the night before last that the mutated XBB strain of the Omicron strain now dominates 18.3% of new infections in America. Its dominance did not exceed 11.2% last week. Experts say this mutated strain spreads faster, but is less capable of causing severe disease. And the American centers expected that XBB would become dominant in the health crisis in the northeastern regions of the United States during the week that ended yesterday. She added that the BQ.1.1 and BQ.1 strains dominated 63.1% of new infections during the week ending yesterday (December 24).
The numbers differed regarding the number of daily injuries globally last Thursday; The New York Times database reported that there were 589,746 new infections; While Bloomberg confirmed, the number reached 745,353 new cases. Japan preceded the nations of the world in presenting the largest daily outcome. As it recorded Wednesday 206,943 injuries, Thursday 184,375 injuries, and Friday 177,622 injuries. Then came South Korea: 88,172 injuries on Thursday, and 66,049 injuries on Friday. This exacerbation is taking place in the global health crisis, even though the number of doses of new coronavirus vaccines around the world rose yesterday (Saturday) to 12.75 billion doses!
However, the biggest fear was for China. As it seemed that the viral infection had become intractable to any preventive measures. Yesterday, the Chinese Center for Disease Control announced that up to 250 million people were infected with Covid-19 during the first 20 days of this December, which is equivalent to 18% of China's total population of 1.4 billion. And Bloomberg indicated yesterday that about 37 million people were infected with the virus on December 20. Bloomberg asked: How did Chinese health officials arrive at that number last Tuesday, knowing that China closed examination centers, and officially insisted that the number of new infections that day did not exceed 3,049. Yesterday, Western newspapers expressed concern that the worsening crisis in China bodes ill for the rest of the globe. And the “Guardian” stated that the fear – the biggest one – is that this uncontrolled outbreak in China will result in the emergence of a genetically mutated strain that will return the world to square one, so that the tragedy of the global epidemic will be repeated. Yesterday, Bloomberg quoted the chief economist at Metro Data Tech as saying that the current infection in China will peak sometime between the end of December and the end of January 2023. He expected that the current wave would result in the infection of tens of millions of Chinese with the virus, especially in the cities of Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chongqing. Yesterday, children's agencies reported pictures of Chinese hospitals full of patients, to the extent that some of them turned their corridors into wards for inpatients.
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This is a strange circumstance that the world is currently going through. While the West is preoccupied with Christmas, the approaching sunset of 2022 and the coming of 2023; The rivalry between major powers over the health crisis is getting pathetic. There is no major country except that the cumulative number of its injuries since the outbreak of the Corona virus has increased to a greater number. It was a strange coincidence that it happened on Christmas Eve. Okaz monitored this as follows:
– America, the cumulative number of its injuries has risen to 102 million.
– France (third after America and India), the number of injuries rose yesterday to 39 million.
– Germany (fourth in the world), the number of its injuries yesterday became 37 million.
– Brazil (fifth in the world), the number of injuries has reached 36 million.
– Japan jumped to 28 million injuries.
Italy: 25 million injuries.
Australia: 11 million.
Chile: Its cumulative number of injuries rose to 5 million.
Most of those forces, on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, provided a large number of new infections per day. On Thursday, the United States recorded 70,435 new cases. It is a new leap, while America is witnessing an unprecedented winter storm, which prevented planes from taking off and canceled train trips. On Friday, America recorded 70,509 new injuries, in the second jump in the number of its new injuries in the range of 70,000. In another disturbing development; The US Centers for Disease Control and Control announced the night before last that the mutated XBB strain of the Omicron strain now dominates 18.3% of new infections in America. Its dominance did not exceed 11.2% last week. Experts say this mutated strain spreads faster, but is less capable of causing severe disease. And the American centers expected that XBB would become dominant in the health crisis in the northeastern regions of the United States during the week that ended yesterday. She added that the BQ.1.1 and BQ.1 strains dominated 63.1% of new infections during the week ending yesterday (December 24).
The numbers differed regarding the number of daily injuries globally last Thursday; The New York Times database reported that there were 589,746 new infections; While Bloomberg confirmed, the number reached 745,353 new cases. Japan preceded the nations of the world in presenting the largest daily outcome. As it recorded Wednesday 206,943 injuries, Thursday 184,375 injuries, and Friday 177,622 injuries. Then came South Korea: 88,172 injuries on Thursday, and 66,049 injuries on Friday. This exacerbation is taking place in the global health crisis, even though the number of doses of new coronavirus vaccines around the world rose yesterday (Saturday) to 12.75 billion doses!
However, the biggest fear was for China. As it seemed that the viral infection had become intractable to any preventive measures. Yesterday, the Chinese Center for Disease Control announced that up to 250 million people were infected with Covid-19 during the first 20 days of this December, which is equivalent to 18% of China's total population of 1.4 billion. And Bloomberg indicated yesterday that about 37 million people were infected with the virus on December 20. Bloomberg asked: How did Chinese health officials arrive at that number last Tuesday, knowing that China closed examination centers, and officially insisted that the number of new infections that day did not exceed 3,049. Yesterday, Western newspapers expressed concern that the worsening crisis in China bodes ill for the rest of the globe. And the Guardian stated that the fear – the biggest – is that this uncontrolled outbreak in China will result in the emergence of a genetically mutated strain that will return the world to square one, so that the tragedy of the global epidemic will be repeated. Yesterday, Bloomberg quoted the chief economist at Metro Data Tech as saying that the current infection in China will peak sometime between the end of December and the end of January 2023. He expected that the current wave would result in the infection of tens of millions of Chinese with the virus, especially in the cities of Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chongqing. Yesterday, children's agencies reported pictures of Chinese hospitals full of patients, to the extent that some of them turned their corridors into wards for inpatients.
Yassin Ahmed (London) @OKAZ_online