Cases from the last month make up more than 15% of the country’s 1.9 million cases since the start of the pandemic.
The South African government closed schools, imposed curfews, suspended alcohol sales and in-person dining, and prohibited all indoor and outdoor gatherings in response to new outbreaks. population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but in South Africa, which imposed new strict coronavirus restrictions Monday due to rising cases driven by the Delta variant, less than 1% of the population has been vaccinated, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Moderna and Johnson & Johnson both announced their vaccines are effective at “neutralizing” Delta and other variants of concern.īut the variant is “spreading rapidly among unvaccinated populations,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a news conference last week.
Anthony Fauci said at a briefing by the White House COVID-19 Response Team. It also upheld its current national COVID-19 directives, which include mask wearing, social distancing, a ban on liquor and tobacco sales and fines for people who spit in public.ĭelta doesn’t seem to pose a significant threat to those who have been fully inoculated: A recent study from a United Kingdom government agency found that getting both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was 88% effective at preventing COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant, while two doses of the AztraZeneca vaccine were 60% effective, Dr. The Indian government urged all its states to impose coronavirus restrictions on Monday. India had seen a total of nearly 400,000 COVID-19 deaths and in excess ofģ0.4 million infections as of Thursday - official numbers that are known to be far below the actual totals. The world’s second-most populous country faced a deadly wave of coronavirus infections this spring, recording millions of cases a day in March and April. The Delta variant has already spawned a new offshoot in India dubbed “Delta-plus,” which may have even more increased transmissibility.
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