Article content
Fort Erie, Ontario Here in this border town just across the Niagara River from New York state, the televisions carry stations from Buffalo. In recent weeks, the news from the U.S. side has been somewhat irksome.
In Erie County, N.Y., everyone 16 years of age and older became eligible for a coronavirus vaccine this month. On the Canadian side, meanwhile, inoculations have been mostly limited to people 55 years and older, Indigenous adults and other priority groups. And they’re getting only the first shot, for now.
We apologize, but this video has failed to load.
Try refreshing your browser, or
Turkey is currently second in the world in daily COVID-19 cases per capita.
The average daily amount of coronavirus cases in Turkey over the past seven days was 710.46 cases per 1 million people yesterday. This was second only to Uruguay in South America with 826.7 cases per million people. The second highest figure in the Middle East was Iran with 283.95 cases per million, followed closely by Jordan with 283.36, according to Oxford University’s Our World in Data. However, some regional states, like Syria, have unreliable data due to inadequate testing.
The Turkish Health Ministry reported 55,149 new COVID-19 infections and 341 virus-related deaths today among Turkey s population of more than 80 million. There have been more than 4.32 million cases in total as well as 36,267 deaths, according to the state media outlet Anadolu Agency. This reflects a fatality rate of only around 1%, which is similar to other developed countries.
endIndex:
(CNN) It was supposed to be Latin America s bright spot in the fight against Covid-19.
Chile, a country of 19 million on the Pacific coast of South America, had gotten a head start on vaccines by making agreements with pharmaceutical companies only months into the pandemic. By the beginning of this year, Chile had reached one of the highest vaccination rates in the world, while other countries in the region had yet to get any vaccines.
As of Wednesday, Chile had a vaccination rate of 38.94 per 100 people, only behind Israel (61.58) and the United Kingdom (47.51). In terms of vaccination, it is ahead of the United States (36.13), according to data published by Oxford University s Our World in Data database.
COVID-19 outbreak hits Canadian soldiers deployed in Ukraine theglobeandmail.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theglobeandmail.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.