The top 10 countries, with more than 20,000 positive cases, are mostly in Europe and the US, with vaccinations also fueled by hesitation warnings of the possibility of a new wave of virus infections. And while these countries are suffering despite vaccines being available, much of Africa awaits the supply of shots that the developed world at large has.
Most of these affluent countries, which have seen a sudden increase in new infections, have fully immunized at least 60-70% of their population. India’s fully vaccinated population is less than 32%, but its infection rate has dropped to about 8,000 cases a day, helped by at least one shot and large coverage of immunity that followed the highly contagious delta wave. come to know. Russia, with 34,000 cases, remains an exception among high-prevalence countries, where infections are rising given the low vaccination coverage of 38% of the population, even as an appeal led by President Vladimir Putin has little effect. Is kept.
Larry Corey, a professor of medicine and virology at the University of Washington, studied the pattern of the delta variant in August and said it has the potential to infect a larger number of contacts than all other variants, but among hospitalized people, an unprecedented 95. 98 percent were denied vaccination.
“When we look at who is in hospital among adults, we see that there are an unprecedented number of people who have not been vaccinated – 95-98%. The same pattern is seen with children. COVID-19 delta The strain is a hospital epidemic without vaccination,” he wrote in a paper for JHU.
The slowing of daily cases in India somewhat corroborates Prof Cori’s observations as a large population in the country became infected with the more contagious delta variant in April-May. With seropositivity of up to 90% in major cities and towns, a universal vaccination campaign by the government has created a form of immunity against the virus and may be the cause of the low number of infections.
However, India needs to meet the targeted 100% coverage of two doses of vaccination to protect its adult population from any new forms.
Reports have revealed that there are at least 20 crores Vaccination States have unused doses left, only half of them needed to fully vaccinate the entire adult population.
Although India’s overall coverage may be less than that of the US or other European countries, in large numbers, India had fully vaccinated 43 crore people against 196 million in the US. China is at the forefront of all countries in fully immunizing more than a billion (107 million) of its total population.
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