Covid19 cases drop but US on brink of 700,000 dead. Other updates: 🇦🇺 Australia's Victoria reports 1,488 local cases 🇲🇽 Mexico reports 7,388 new cases, 471 deaths 🇧🇷 Brazil reports 506 deaths in 24 hours as vaccination advances For more:
Members of a medical team transport a coronavirus disease positive patient to their room on the Covid medical unit at Sarasota Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, US, September 21, 2021. A decline in cases across the United States over the past several weeks has given overwhelmed hospitals some relief, but administrators are bracing for yet another possible surge as cold weather drives people indoors.
An estimated 70 million eligible Americans remain unvaccinated, providing kindling for the highly contagious delta variant. There were also two further deaths. The state has been in a hard lockdown since August 5 as authorities are trying to quell an outbreak of the Delta coronavirus variant. The Public Health Agency of Canada said on Friday data suggests that reported cases of rare heart inflammation were higher after Moderna's vaccine compared with the Pfizer/BioNTech shots.
With 40 percent of Brazilians now fully vaccinated, the rolling seven-day average of deaths has fallen to one third of the toll of almost 3,000 a day at the peak of the pandemic in April.Morocco will soon start giving a third dose of vaccine, the Health Ministry said on Friday.
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