Live Covid Live Updates: Africa Endures ‘Worst Pandemic Week Ever’ Sixteen African countries are reporting a resurgence in infections driven by the Delta variant. Africa marks its ‘worst pandemic week’ yet, with cases surging and vaccine scarce, the W.H.O. Credit... Brian Otieno for The New York Times Africa has just had its “worst pandemic week ever,” the World Health Organization said on Thursday. Coronavirus infections have quadrupled in England in recent weeks, according to the study from Imperial College London, which was published on the government’s website. The Lambda virus variant is worth watching, but so far there’s no cause for alarm.

Source: International New York Times July 09, 2021 09:01 UTC