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New Delhi: More than a year after the global COVID-19 outbreak, the number of cases in countries continues to rise, with the total number of infections touching 23,03,36,970 infections and 47,23,086 deaths. Countries are focusing on boosting vaccination efforts to offset the increase in infections or prevent future waves of the virus.
A new report finds that by the last quarter of 2020, nearly 20 per cent of workers in Nigeria lost their jobs due to the pandemic, while Australia’s Melbourne has tightened security to prevent protests against lockdown rules.
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Melbourne tightens security to prevent lockdown protests
Police in Melbourne, Australia, spread across the city on Wednesday, marking a third day of protests against COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, as the state of Victoria reported another surge in infections, reports Reuters.
Police made more than 60 arrests on Tuesday after more than 2,000 protesters turned violent and clashed with police.
Earlier, authorities closed construction sites for two weeks to limit the spread of the virus. The authorities had also decided to make vaccines mandatory for construction workers.
Australia has informed of 90,391 cases and 1,186 deaths.
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Welsh ambulance crew struggle amid new wave of Covid
Morale among ambulance crew in Wales is at its lowest as the country struggles to fight against a new wave of COVID-19, reports bcc
The Welsh Ambulance Services Trust said it had been under “significant and continuing pressure” in recent months as cases rose.
It comes after the Welsh Ambulance Service formally asked for military help.
The service received more calls in June than in any month since the pandemic began.
A medical technician, Paul Amphlett, told the BBC that Welsh ambulance crews spent full shifts waiting to unload patients, and morale was at “rock-bottom”.
the UK recorded 74,96,543 cases and 1,35,455 deaths.
Nearly 20% of Nigerian workers lost jobs during the pandemic
A report published on Tuesday by the United Nations Development Program and Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) highlighted the devastating impact of the COVID pandemic on the country’s unemployment rate, reports al Jazeera.
The joint report surveyed nearly 3,000 businesses in the formal and informal sectors in Nigeria.
It found that 43 percent of businesses in the formal and informal sectors of Nigeria’s economy experienced a decline in the workforce by the fourth quarter of 2020.
The report also found that about 20 percent of workers at the enterprises surveyed lost their jobs during this period.
In the second quarter, Nigeria’s unemployment rate peaked at a staggering 27 percent, rising to 33 percent by the fourth quarter of 2020.
Nigeria is Lodged 2,02,704 cases and 2,664 deaths.
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Israel’s life-saving machines for critical patients could end
Israel is on the verge of running out of life-saving machines known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which replace heart and lung function and are used in the most severe cases of COVID-19. reports Haaretz.
Twenty-nine COVID patients in Israel are currently connected to ECMO machines, of whom 29 are between 40-60 years of age. Thirty-three are illiterate and four are fully vaccinated.
When the country was battling a third wave of infections earlier this year, Dr Yigal Kasif, head of ECMO services at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer and head of Israel’s ECMO society, said that “there is no ECMO bed available anywhere in Israel”. “. He said that now such a situation is coming to the fore.
A total of 52 ECMO machines are in use in Israel, and there are only 82 such machines in the country, of which a third serve as backup for those in use.
Israel Lodged 12,42,262 cases and 7,567 deaths.
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