World Coronavirus Dispatch: New York City crawls toward normalcy

100 mn J&J vaccine doses held up over contamination, poor jab rate in Africa threatens world's recovery, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

Poor vaccination in Africa threatens world’s recovery

Poor vaccination drives in the world’s least-inoculated continent of Africa could pose another big challenge for global efforts to end the pandemic. The danger is that while the rest of the world slowly returns to normalcy, the virus will spread in these African nations, mutating into variants that can evade current vaccines, cause deadly new waves that could spread far beyond their borders. Read here

Let's look at the global statistics

Global infections: 164,917,999

Global deaths: 3,418,023

Nations with most cases: US (33,026,739), India (25,772,440), Brazil (15,812,055), France (5,978,650), Turkey (5,151,038).

Source: John