‘Vaccinate people to keep Covid turnaround down’

People walk through midtown Manhattan as crowds are slowly coming back to the area in New York City. Pic/AFP

The United States (US) is making progress against the ongoing resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic, but the country is not out of the woods yet, America's top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said.

"We certainly are turning the corner on this particular surge," Xinhua news agency quoted Fauci, also the medical advisor to the White House, as saying to the ABC News on Sunday.

"But we have experienced over now close to 20 months surges that go up and then come down, and then go back up again. The way to keep it down, to make that turnaround continue to go down, is to do what we mentioned: get people vaccinated," he added.

"When you have 70 million people in the country who are eligible to be vaccinated, who are not yet vaccinated, that's the danger zone right there.

"So it's within our capability to make sure that that turnaround that we're seeing, that very favourable and optimistic turnaround, continues to go down and doesn't do what we've seen multiple times before, where it goes down and then it comes back up," Fauci said.

Japan's new PM looks at recovering economy

Fumio Kishida, the leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party who was elected on Monday as the country's new Prime Minister, is seeking to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic while also reviving the economy with a package worth "tens of trillions of yen" to help people and businesses suffering from the health crisis.Earlier in the day, the Diet or Parliament convened an extraordinary session to choose the new PM, reports Xinhua news agency.

NZ's largest city to move out of restrictions

A roadmap was announced by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday for the country's largest city to carefully move out of the current Covid-19 restrictions. New Zealand reported 29 new Covid Delta variant cases on Monday, of which 28 were recorded in the largest city Auckland.

UK reports another 30,439 fresh cases

Another 30,439 people in the UK have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of Coronavirus cases in the country to 7,900,680, according to official figures released Sunday. The country also recorded another 43 Coronavirus-related deaths, Xinhua news agency reported.

75,873
No. of new cases reported globally in the past 24 hours

23,50,67,647
Total no. of cases worldwide

48,04,418
Total no. of deaths worldwide

Source: WHO/Johns Hopkins

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