More than six million people in Spain now have the full protection offered by the Covid-19 vaccines being used by the countryâs health authorities. After a slow start to the campaign in the first quarter of the year, the speed of the process is getting faster every week, and yesterday saw Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez venture to put a date on the end of the health crisis: August 18. âWe are just 100 days from achieving group immunity,â he announced. âThatâs to say, managing to vaccinate 70% of the Spanish population, thus immunizing them.â Group or herd immunity refers to a situation where sufficient levels of the population are protected against the virus so as to impede its circulation.
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Globally, the burden of Covid-19 cases has decreased, but the uneven distribution of life-saving vaccines could prolong the economic recovery and leave developing countries even further behind, the World Health Organization said Wednesday, CNBC reported.
In the week that ended 31January, 3.7 million new cases of
coronavirus were reported worldwide, a 13% decrease compared to the previous week, according to the latest WHO Covid report. Covid-19 deaths, which lag behind the new cases for several weeks, showed a modest 1% decrease in the last week of January.
That s welcome news, but more than 3 million new infections are still an awful lot of people, said Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO emergency health program.
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Marcos Lopez Hoyos, the president of the Spanish Society of Immunology, has warned it is difficult to predict how long the coronavirus pandemic will last. He issued a warning masks may still need to be worn up to Christmas this year despite the vaccination process starting.