Covid hits one of the few countries in the world that had not yet presented the community broadcast

Covid-19 has affected almost everyone equally in recent years. However, there were still some places where the virus hadn’t had a hard impact on the population. One of these cases was that of Marshall Islandsa remote archipelago located in the Pacific Ocean, but everything started to change a week ago.

Until then, the island nation consisted of 29 coral atolls and five islands he had not had community infections, but he began to suffer the impact of this disease which has infected nearly 10 percent of its capital, Majuro. The nation had just recorded its first local broadcast on August 8.

The crisis facing the Marshall Islands is due to the rapid diffusion of the BA.5 sub-variant of omicronwhich forced its president, David Kabua, to declare a state of health disaster on Friday.

In addition, to protect the more than 58,000 people living in this republic, the Executive of the Marshall Islands last week it banned flights and sea travel governments to the remote islands of the archipelago.

Marshall Islands health authorities reported 571 new cases of community transmission of covid-19 on Sunday, of which 458 were recorded in Majuro, according to official data.

The epicenter of these infections is that city, which accumulates about 2,825 infections, which represents about 10 percent of the population of about 30,000 inhabitants of the capital of the Marshall Islands.

this remote nation accumulated a total of 3,036 infections until Sunday, double what was reported three days earlieras well as two people who died from the virus last week.

It is believed that community infections in the Marshall Islands, which plans to reopen its international borders on October 1 depending on the evolution of covid-19, may be the result of the relaxation in the mandatory quarantine time to enter the country and an increase in arrivals to this countryThis was reported today by Radio New Zealand.

The Marshall Islands recorded their first two imported cases of covid-19 in October last year and since then, according to data from the World Health Organization, they had isolated only a maximum of 21 infections by June this year.

The government of the Marshall Islands, where 60 percent of the population over six months of age has two doses of the covid-19 vaccine, has not yet ordered the confinement of its population.

Coronavirus in Argentina

According to official data, 31,198 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Argentina in the past 7 days and another 126 deaths from the pandemic disease have been reported.

In this way there was a 26% decrease in the number of infected people compared to the previous Sunday (there were 42,227), but as a counterpart there was a sharp jump in the number of deaths: 77.4% more (on 7 August it was reported 71).

The official report included information provided by the provinces over the past week, Sunday through Sunday.

If you take the total data for the pandemic, Argentina has reported 9,633,732 infections and 129,566 deaths since March 2020. They are the fifteenth and fourteenth highest figures globally, according to statistics published by the Worldometers website.

The weekly government survey indicates that 459 patients with Covid are currently hospitalized in intensive care, while the general occupancy of adult beds – for all diseases – is 43.3%.

As for the reporting of deaths, the strong leap is due to the fact that the province of Tucumán has reported a very high number of deaths: 50 in the last week.

With information from EFE.

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