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Good morning. That is Jonathan Spira reporting. Right here now the information of the pandemic from throughout the globe on the 1,066th day of the pandemic and the third anniversary of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
Saturday was not solely the third anniversary of the declaration of the coronavirus pandemic but in addition the third anniversary of the day that Broadway theaters went darkish to adjust to New York State coronavirus restrictions.
The pandemic pressured the shutdown of all theaters on March 12, 2020, and so they first started to reopen within the late summer season and fall of 2021. Most exhibits have been closed for a interval of 18 months and a few have been closed for a good longer time interval.
As well as, some exhibits by no means returned together with “Hangman” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” and quite a few exhibits that did reopen – specifically
“Aladdin,” “Hamilton,” “MJ,” “Mrs. Doubtfire” “Jagged Little Tablet,” “Moulin Rouge! – The Musical,” and “Tina – The Tine Turner Musical” skilled a number of cancellations of performances on account of covid outbreaks within the firm. The checklist of
A trio of blockbuster musicals – ‘Hamilton,” “Lion King,” and Depraved” – have been among the many first exhibits to renew performances in September 2021.
The three restarted performances on September 14, the primary day Broadway was allowed to reopen, as will the 1996 revival of “Chicago,” which holds the document because the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway historical past.
In different information we cowl at present, the WHO additionally needs to know what the origins of Covid have been, whereas Chinese language officers reward Hong Kong’s reopening.
LONG COVID
The World Well being Group stated that studying the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is an ethical crucial that may hopefully assist those that have Lengthy Covid. He underscored that each one hypotheses have to be explored.
“Understanding #Covid19’s origins and exploring all hypotheses stays: a scientific crucial, to assist us stop future outbreaks (and) an ethical crucial, for the sake of the thousands and thousands of people that died and people who reside with #LongCovid,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated on Twitter late on Saturday.
GLOBAL
Zhong Nanshan, an official in communist China, praised Hong Kong’s easing of pandemic management measures on Saturday. The transfer got here as he unveiled new coronavirus vaccines and medicines which can be “higher” than Paxlovid and can quickly turn out to be accessible throughout the border.
Zhong additionally stated masks and vaccines performed an vital function in Hong Kong’s battle towards the coronavirus pandemic.
OTHER HEALTHCARE NEWS
In China, officers within the metropolis of Xi’an, a serious vacationer vacation spot in Shaanxi province that’s house to the well-known terracotta warriors, unveiled an emergency response plan earlier this week that might allow it to shutter colleges, companies, and “different crowded locations” within the occasion of a extreme influenza epidemic.
The information confronted a public backlash instantly with some individuals on social media saying that the plan sounded eerily just like the draconian “zero-Covid” measures China had applied early on throughout the pandemic.
TODAY’S STATISTICS
Now listed here are the each day statistics for Sunday, March 12.
As of Sunday morning, the world has recorded 681.5 million Covid-19 instances, a determine that’s largely unchanged from the day prior to this, and 6.81 million deaths, in keeping with Worldometer, a service that tracks such info. As well as, 654.4 million individuals worldwide have recovered from the virus, a rise of 0.1 million.
The reader ought to word that rare reporting from some sources could seem as spikes in new case figures or demise tolls.
Worldwide, the variety of energetic coronavirus instances as of Sunday at press time is 20,285,990, a lower of 17,000. Out of that determine, 99.8%, or 20,245,667, are thought of delicate, and 0.2%, or 40,323, are listed as crucial. The share of instances thought of crucial has not modified over the previous three months.
The variety of new coronavirus infections for Sunday was not accessible at press time. America reported10,161 new coronavirus infections on Saturday for the day prior to this, in comparison with 55,447 reported on Friday 63,372 reported on Thursday, 23,808 on Wednesday, and 14,774 on Tuesday, in keeping with information from the U.S. Division of Well being and Human Companies. The 7-day incidence price is now 29,498. Figures for the weekend (reported the next day) are usually 30% to 60% of these posted on weekdays on account of a decrease variety of assessments being performed.
The typical each day variety of new coronavirus instances in the USA over the previous 14 days is 29,472, a determine down 14% over the previous 14 days, primarily based on information from the Division of Well being and Human Companies, amongst different sources. The typical each day demise toll over the identical interval is 393, a rise of 20% over the identical interval, whereas the common variety of hospitalizations for the interval was 24,360, a lower of 12%. As well as, the variety of sufferers in ICUs was 3,189, a lower of 12% and the check positivity price is now 7.8%, a determine that’s down by 18% over the identical interval.
As well as, because the begin of the pandemic the USA has, as of Sunday, recorded 105.6 million instances, a better determine than every other nation, and a demise toll of 1.15 million. India has the world’s second highest variety of formally recorded instances, 44.7 million, and a reported demise toll of 530,781.
The latest information from Russia’s Rosstat state statistics service confirmed that, on the finish of July, the variety of Covid or Covid-related deaths because the begin of the pandemic there in April 2020 is now 823,623, giving the nation the world’s second highest pandemic-related demise toll, behind the USA. Rosstat final reported that 3,284 individuals died from the coronavirus or associated causes in July 2022, down from 5,023 in June, 7,008 in Might and 11,583 in April.
In the meantime, France is the nation with the third highest variety of instances, with over 39.6 million, and Germany is within the quantity 4 slot, with just below 38.3 million whole instances.
Brazil, which has recorded the third highest variety of deaths on account of the virus, 699,310, has recorded 37.1 million instances, inserting it within the quantity 5 slot.
The opposite 5 nations with whole case figures over the 20 million mark are Japan, with 33.3 million instances, South Korea, with 30.6 million instances, inserting it within the quantity seven slot, and Italy, with simply over 25.6 million, as quantity eight, in addition to the UK, with 24.4 million, and Russia, with 22.4 million.
VACCINATION SPOTLIGHT
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention stated that, as of Thursday, 269.6 million individuals in the USA – or 81.2% – have obtained not less than one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Of that inhabitants, 69.3%, or 230.1 million individuals, have obtained two doses of vaccine, and the full variety of doses which were allotted in the USA is now 672.1 million. Breaking this down additional, 92.1% of the inhabitants over the age of 18 – or 237.8 million individuals – has obtained not less than a primary inoculation and 79% of the identical group – or simply beneath 204 million individuals – is absolutely vaccinated. As well as, 19.6% of the identical inhabitants, or 50.5 million individuals, has already obtained an up to date or bivalent booster dose of vaccine, whereas 22.7 million individuals over the age of 65, or 41.4% of that inhabitants have additionally obtained the bivalent booster.
Beginning on June 13, 2022, the CDC started to replace vaccine information on a weekly foundation and publish the up to date info on Thursdays by 8 p.m. EDT, an announcement on the company’s web site stated.
Some 69.7% of the world inhabitants has obtained not less than one dose of coronavirus vaccine by Sunday, in keeping with Our World in Knowledge, a web-based scientific publication that tracks such info. Thus far, 13.32 billion doses of the vaccine have been administered on a worldwide foundation and 406,085 doses at the moment are administered every day.
In the meantime, solely 28% of individuals in low-income nations have obtained one dose, whereas in nations comparable to Canada, China, Denmark, France, Italy, the UK, and the USA, not less than 75% of the inhabitants has obtained not less than one dose of vaccine.
Solely a handful of the world’s poorest nations – Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia and Nepal – have reached the 70% mark in vaccinations. Many nations, nevertheless, are beneath 20% and, in nations comparable to Haiti, Senegal, and Tanzania, for instance, vaccination charges stay at or under 10%.
As well as, with the beginning of vaccinations in North Korea in late September, Eritrea stays the one nation on this planet that has not administered vaccines.
Paul Riegler contributed reporting to this story.
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