https://www.afinalwarning.com/503335.html (Natural News) The number of new cases of coronavirus in Florida continue to drop despite the high prevalence in the state of the B117 variant – also known as the UK variant.
At least 105 new coronavirus deaths and 5,214 new cases were reported in Florida on Friday, March 12. Over the past week, there has been an average of 4,523 cases per day, a decrease of 24 percent from the average two weeks earlier.
Florida leads the nation with 690 confirmed cases of the B117 variant, but the state’s 75 percent decline in total of new cases since early January provides a glimmer of hope that the new variant will not trigger another surge.
38 additional cases of the U.K. COVID-19 variant are confirmed in Iowa.
The Iowa Department of Public Health reminds Iowans that the COVID-19 vaccines are effective against variants of the virus.
The first confirmed cases of the U.K. variant in Iowa were discovered back in February.
Full release from IDPH:
The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) has confirmed 38 additional cases of the COVID-19 variant, SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7. in Iowa. The variant is often referred to as the U.K. variant because it was first detected in the United Kingdom.
This increase in the number of detected variants comes in part as a result of increasing the number of tests being sequenced by the State Hygienic L
Pakistan reports over 2,500 new COVID cases
58 deaths reported in the past 24 hours
ISLAMABAD:
As the third wave of COVID-19 gains strength across the country, another 2,511 people in Pakistan tested positive for coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
According to the National Command and Operation Center, at least 573,014 people have recovered from COVID-19 across Pakistan.
Statistics showed that there were no coronavirus patients on the ventilator in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Balochistan. The number of active cases across the country stands at 23,355.
Among these, 8,511 cases were confirmed in Sindh, 13,727 in Punjab, 6,205 in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, 5,369 in Islamabad, 398 in Balochistan, 377 in Gilgit, and 716 in AJK.
Pakistan government admits “dangerous” third wave of COVID-19 infections
Pakistan’s Islamist populist Tehrik-e-Insaaf government was forced to admit last Thursday that the country is in a “dangerous” situation, due to a fast spreading “third wave” of COVID-19 infections linked to the more contagious B.1.1.7 or “UK” variant.
However, Prime Minister Imran Khan, who in the past has vociferously opposed any measures to fight the pandemic that would impact on Pakistan’s economy, is refusing to order urgently needed social and public health measures to stop the spread of the virus and support the country’s largely impoverished population.
People enter the Empress Market, a colonial era market that is one of the busiest and most popular for shopping in Karachi. (IMF/ Creative Commons)