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CORONAVIRUS: It is a slaughter in the world!

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The situation is getting worse in Europe and the United States, the two most affected territories in the world. Nearly 800,000 people have Covid-19 and 34,000 deaths have been recorded.

Overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that number in the thousands every 24 hours. This is the sad daily toll of covid-19 disease worldwide. The European continent is currently the most macabre zone of the pandemic with in particular Spain and Italy which concentrate 2/3 of the recorded deaths. Globally, the latest report shows more than 724,945 cases detected and more than 34,000 deaths.

Usa, the most infected country

Even if it is not the first country to be affected by covid-19, the United States could become the epicenter of the disease. They are currently the most affected country in the world with 143,025 people infected. The disease has killed more than 2,500 people in this part of the world. Donald Trump has announced that he will extend measures to slow the spread until the end of April. “Projections indicate that the death rate will likely peak in two weeks,” said Trump.

7340 dead in Spain

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After the worst day of Sunday lived with the 832 registered deaths, Spain announces 812 additional deaths in 24 hours. This brings the death toll to 7,340. The Madrid region is the area most affected by the coronavirus. A field hospital has also been erected in one of the pavilions of the Madrid exhibition center. This is to be able to accommodate all sick people and allow congestion in hospitals in the region. More than 80,000 people are affected in Spain.

Italy, sad record holder

Italy is the country that has recorded the most deaths in the world with 11,000 deaths out of 97,689 cases reported in the country. But in recent days, the death toll has dropped considerably with 756 deaths recorded Sunday against 889 Saturday.

The African continent, on the other hand, has exceeded 4,700 cases positive for Covid-19 with more than 150 deaths.

Source: Seneweb.

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COVID 19 – A new variant we discovered

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According to a senior official at the World Health Organization, a new highly mutated variant of COVID called BA.2.86 has been discovered in several countries including Switzerland, South Africa, as well as Israel, Denmark, the United States and the United Kingdom.

According to “Reuters”, the variant was first spotted in Denmark on 24 July after sequencing of the virus infecting a patient at risk of becoming seriously ill”. And so it was detected “in other symptomatic patients, during routine checks at airports and in wastewater samples in a handful of countries”.

Thus, scientists have indicated that “although it was important to monitor BA.2.86, it was unlikely to cause a devastating wave of serious illness and death given the immune defenses developed worldwide as a result of vaccination and previous infection”.

WHO COVID-19 technical officer Maria Van Kerkhove said, “The numbers are still low”. But the reduction in global surveillance could lead to rapid circulation of the virus…

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TOBACCO CONTROL: Seven out of 10 people protected by anti-smoking measures

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A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) highlights that 5.6 billion people, or 71% of the world’s population, are now protected by at least one good practice policy to save lives from deadly smoking, five times more than in 2007.

Over the past 15 years, since WHO’s MPOWER measures were introduced globally, smoking rates have fallen. Without this reduction, the UN World Health Agency estimates that there are now 300 million more smokers worldwide. This new WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic focuses on protecting the public from passive smoking, noting that nearly 40% of countries now have fully non-smoking indoor public places. The report assesses the progress made by countries in tobacco control and shows that two other countries, Mauritius and the Netherlands, have reached the level of best practices for all MPOWER measures, a feat that only Brazil and Turkey have achieved so far. These data show that, slowly but surely, more and more people are protected from the harms of tobacco by WHO policies based on evidence and best practices.”said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO, congratulating Mauritius on becoming the first country in Africa and the Netherlands on becoming the first country in the European Union to implement WHO’s comprehensive tobacco control policies at the highest level. Eight countries are only one policy away from joining the leaders of tobacco control: Ethiopia, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, Madagascar, Mexico, New Zealand and Spain. However, much remains to be done: 44 countries are not protected by any of WHO’s MPOWER measures. At the same time, 53 countries have still not adopted a total ban on smoking in health facilities. In addition, only half of the countries have smoke-free private workplaces and restaurants.

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“WHO urges all countries to implement all MPOWER measures at the level of best practices to fight the tobacco epidemic, which kills 8.7 million people worldwide, and to oppose the tobacco and nicotine industries, who are lobbying against these public health measures,” said Dr Ruediger Krech, Director of Health Promotion at WHO. About 1.3 million people die each year from second-hand smoke. All of these deaths could be prevented. People exposed to second-hand smoke are at risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, respiratory disease, type 2 diabetes and cancer. In this fight against tobacco, the ban on smoking in public spaces is only one of the measures of the Effective Tobacco Control Package, MPOWER, designed to help countries implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and stem the tobacco epidemic. The paper shows that all countries, regardless of income level, can lower the demand for deadly tobacco, achieve major public health victories and save billions of dollars in health care and production costs.

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SENEGAL – 400 cases of measles recorded

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Measles is back in force, with more than “400 cases recorded nationally”. It is a revelation of Doctor Boly Diop, responsible for epidemiological and post-vaccination surveillance at the Ministry of Health and Social Action, on Thursday, July 13, 2023.

“Performance in the first half of the year revealed the existence of a measles epidemic,” said Dr. Boly Diop, noting that Fatick is the only one of the country’s 14 regions that has yet to register a confirmed case of measles.

Outside of Fatick, all regions have confirmed cases of measles and there are districts that have become epidemic. This means that today, measles is back in force, there are confirmed cases and epidemics that are recorded throughout the regions,’ he said, on the sidelines of a quarterly coordination meeting for epidemiological surveillance.

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