COVID-19 Infections, Deaths Dropping Worldwide Published February 15th, 2021 - 07:45 GMT
A man wearing a face mask holds the Chinese national flag as he looks on while workers offload an Air Zimbabwe aeroplane with a donation of 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine from China on February 15, 2021 at the Robert Mugabe International Airport. Jekesai NJIKIZANA / AFP
Worldwide attempts to control COVID-19 with vast vaccine distribution and restrictions, including lockdowns, are paying off with reduced cases and deaths from peaks in January.
In the past week, there were 2,766,623 newly reported infections worldwide, including 324,165 on Monday, which was the lowest since 321,203 Oct. 13, according to tracking by Worldometers.info.
COVID-19 cases, deaths worldwide dropping from peak in January
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People arrive at a COVID-19 vaccination center in London on Wednesday. About 16 million people across Britain have been vaccinated. Britain has the fifth-most deaths in the nation. Photo by Andy Rain/EPA/EFE
Feb. 14 (UPI) Worldwide attempts to control COVID-19 with vast vaccine distribution and restrictions, including lockdowns, are paying off with reduced cases and deaths from peaks in January.
In the past week, there were 2,766,623 newly reported infections worldwide, including 324,165 on Monday, which was the lowest since 321,203 Oct. 13, according to tracking by Worldometers.info.
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The previous week there were 3,210,403 newly reported global cases.
Worldwide attempts to control COVID-19 with vast vaccine distribution and restrictions, including lockdowns, are paying off with reduced cases and deaths from peaks in January.
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At first dismissed and ridiculed by Western countries, Russia s Sputnik V vaccine has not only been rehabilitated; it s emerging as a powerful tool of influence abroad for President Vladimir Putin. I think they possibly couldn t be feeling more smug and delighted about the way things are going, said Judy Twigg, a professor of political science at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and an expert on the politics of global health. The Kremlin is having a whole lot of problems in other areas right now but this is one unvarnished, unmitigated win they can point to right now.
Because each of these schools was in existence prior to 1865, the year the Civil War ended, the assumption is that they all benefitted from black slavery in some way, shape or form. Consequently, they all need to now give black people free money as “reparations.”
Should the bill be signed into law, it would take effect starting in the 2022-23 academic year. It will go to the Democrat-controlled Senate next and if it passes there it will head to the desk of Gov. Ralph “Blackface” Northam.
Passed by a 61-39 vote in the House, the bill mandates that each of the aforementioned schools offer full four-year scholarships or economic development programs to descendants of black of slaves. Said descendants would be allowed to choose any of the five institutions for attendance.