Health Alerts

The Aug 17 WHO epi update outlined the countries logging the greatest increase in new cases over the reporting period: the USA and Iran (nine percent rise each), with CIDRAP reporting this week that cases in the US are ‘back to pre-vaccination levels’ as the impact of the Delta variant is being felt the most in areas with low vaccination rates. On a regional level, increases in the Western Pacific (14 percent, with the largest proportionate increases in cases and deaths in Australia, French Polynesia, Japan, Philippines and Republic of Korea) and the Americas (eight percent, with the biggest hike in weekly incidence in Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Guadeloupe) added to the rising global trend seen over the past two months. Read more