{"id":77609,"date":"2021-07-28T20:07:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=77609"},"modified":"2021-07-28T20:07:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T00:07:21","slug":"covid-delta-variant-explodes-in-africa-as-it-soars-in-asia-and-ibero-america-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/07\/28\/covid-delta-variant-explodes-in-africa-as-it-soars-in-asia-and-ibero-america-too\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Delta Variant Explodes in Africa as It Soars in Asia and Ibero-America Too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

July 27, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014On July 9 the Africa Center for Strategic Studies warned, \u201cThe surge of the Delta coronavirus variant in Africa is set to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in the coming months, absent a dramatic scaling up of prevention measures and COVID vaccine access.\u201d Now just 18 days later, the North, South, and East of Africa have exploded with new COVID cases. The latest infographic from the Africa Center dated July 12, shows total known confirmed cases of COVID in Africa at 5,984,845 since the beginning of the pandemic. View the time-lapsed map here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of the July 9 Africa Center report \u201c26 African countries [had] seen their confirmed COVID-19 case[s] jump by approximately 50%\u201d in June compared to May. Then, in the first week of July, 5,600 people across Africa died from COVID, a 43% increase from the week before. Overall, the Center noted, \u201cThere has been a near tripling in the number of COVID cases and 30,000 fatalities on the continent since the end of April when the Delta variant emerged in Uganda.\u201d By mid-July the Delta variant was found in 22 of 54 African countries, countries with inadequate healthcare platforms and access to vaccines\u2014criminally, a mere one percent of Africans have been vaccinated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A change-in-fatalities table, by the Africa CDC, compared death-rate increases May 8-June 7 to June 7-July 7, showing that 16 African countries had a 450% to 4,303% rise in COVID deaths, while six African countries had a 100% to 397% rise in COVID deaths. The table is here<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, July 27, an International Rescue Committee press release reads, \u201cFrom Asia to Africa to Latin America, countries are suffering from record COVID-19 caseloads and deaths, \u2026 The Delta variant is leading to a spike in cases in crisis-affected countries. In the month to July 25th, there has been a significant increase in cases in Zimbabwe (116%), Thailand (110%), Myanmar (78%), Liberia (60%), Bangladesh (33%) and Afghanistan (29%), and concerning test positivity rates in Mexico (37%), Iraq (22%), Colombia (22%), Zimbabwe (20%) and Democratic Republic of Congo (17%).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Echoing Helga Zepp-LaRouche\u2019s call for new healthcare platforms in every country, and Dr.\u00a0Joycelyn Elders\u2019 insistence that public health measures are urgently needed, the Africa CDC July 9 report concluded that need is clear to \u201cramp up vaccine access to avert a humanitarian calamity\u201d and, since \u201cAfrica does not have the hospital infrastructure to rely on \u2026. Prevention, relying on public health principles, remains the indispensable priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 27, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014On July 9 the Africa Center for Strategic Studies warned, \u201cThe surge of the Delta coronavirus variant in Africa is set to cause hundreds of thousands of deaths in the coming months, absent a dramatic scaling up of prevention measures and COVID vaccine access.\u201d Now just 18 days later, the North, South, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":77610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[643,520,505,508,702,634],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-77609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-updates-development","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-healthcare-updates-development","category-healthcare","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77620,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77609\/revisions\/77620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}