South Africa registered 14,271 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative total to 2,568,511. A further 473 Covid-19-related deaths were reported, taking total official deaths to 76,247. A total of 9,185,756 people have been vaccinated.
50,000 New Yorkers
Facebook had originally said it expected about 50% office capacity in the US by September, with a full return by October.Governor Tate Reeves extended Mississippi’s State of Emergency for 30 days, after health officials reported ahigh daily case count of 4,412. The Republican governor has faced criticism for not acting aggressively enough in the face of a new Delta-variant surge that has strained Mississippi’s hospital system.
More than a dozen states face severe shortages of personnel, US Department of Health and Human Services data show. In Texas and Hawaii, hospitals are building tents for extra space. In Florida, the federal government has deployed hundreds of ventilators to Florida in a rare tapping of the Strategic National Stockpile for that equipment.
The move comes as the San Francisco area, which suffered one of the country’s first coronavirus outbreaks last year, is seeing case counts rise again due to the fast-spreading Delta variant. New York City imposed a similar order last week, but only required that indoor diners and gym patrons have one vaccine dose.event for Covid-19 earlier this month even with 203 cases being reported by attendees.
The rolling seven-day average of viral lab test positivity fell 0.3% in the report, which didn’t explain the decline. The so-called positivity rate fell nationwide to 9.5%, compared with 10.2% in a similar CDC report issued Wednesday.
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