Highlights
- Biden urges people to get vaccinated amid new wave of Covid-19
- President Biden said it was his duty to the country, not a political appeal
- Biden Says Former President Donald Trump Has Also Taken ‘Booster’ Dose
US President Joe Biden has urged people who have not yet been vaccinated, amid Omicron’s whirlwind. The President said that it is his duty towards the country. He emphasized that his appeal was not political. Biden said that former President Donald Trump has also taken a “booster” dose and that every American citizen has a “duty to the country” to get vaccinated.
Biden said in the White House on Tuesday that to deal with the increasing cases of ‘Omicron’, a new form of corona virus in the country, 500 million free rapid tests, hospital facilities and doubling the speed of vaccination will be done. The President said, ‘This is the only responsible thing that we can do.’ He said, ‘I know you are all tired and upset. We all want it to end now, but we are still facing it. Now we have more weapons to deal with it than ever before. We are ready to deal with it.
Worldwide cases of corona increased to 27.54 crores
Corona virus cases have increased to 27.54 crore worldwide. With this, more than 53.6 lakh people have died due to corona so far, while more than 8.72 billion people have been vaccinated. These figures have been shared by Johns Hopkins University. In its latest update on Tuesday morning, the university’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) reported that the current global cases, deaths and total number of immunizations have risen to 275,438,382, 5,360,382 and 8,726,609,684, respectively. According to CSSE, the US continues to be the worst-affected country with the world’s highest number of cases and deaths at 51,097,528 and 807,945.
The second most affected country in corona cases is India, where there are 34,746,838 cases of corona while 477,554 people have died, followed by Brazil with 22,215,856 cases of corona while 617,873 people have died. According to CSSE data, the other most affected countries with more than 5 million cases are the UK (11,518,116), Russia (10,064,290), Turkey (9,191,851), France (8,745,272), Germany (6,834,488), Iran (6,173,369), Spain (5,535,231). , Italy (5,405,360), Argentina (5,395,044) and Colombia (5,109,022). Countries that have crossed the death toll of more than 100,000 are Mexico (297,863), Russia (292,331), Peru (202,225), UK (147,722), Indonesia (144,013), Italy (135,778), Iran (131,124). ), Colombia (129,487), France (122,702), Argentina (116,930) and Germany (108,484).
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