Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.
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COVID-19 affects different people in different ways. Most infected people will develop mild to moderate illness and recover without hospitalization.
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Globally, as of 5:05pm CEST, 14 July 2021, there have been 187,519,798 confirmed cases of COVID-19, including 4,049,372 deaths, reported to WHO. As of 13 July 2021, a total of 3,400,884,367 vaccine doses have been administered.
Beta - This one, which appeared in South Africa in August 2020, led to a resurgence in Covid cases that overwhelmed southern Africa. It’s been reported in at least 122 countries. The South African variant carries a mutation, called N501Y, that appears to make it more contagious or easy to spread.The South Africa variant causes more serious illness for the vast majority of people.
Delta - This fast-spreading variant stoked a dramatic wave of Covid cases in India that overwhelmed hospitals and crematoriums and has since been found in at 104 countries. It’s estimated to be 55% more transmissible than alpha and almost twice as infectious as the original strain that began spreading worldwide in early 2020. Doctors in India have linked to delta.
Alpha - This variant emerged in England in September 2020 and drove a winter surge in cases that sent the U.K. back into lockdown in January. Other countries, particularly in Europe, followed the U.K. in reimposing movement restrictions. Alpha was previously the dominant strain in the U.S., and has been reported in at least 173 countries, according to the WHO.
All frontliners try to respond with utmost compassion and unrelenting commitment to what is expected of us – for as long as we can. But I can safely say many are exhausted and frustrated with the situation where there seems to be no end in sight
The health workers now, if you ask them, if we had a choice, we would stop what we're doing, just go stay at home, watch Netflix. But we don't have that luxury. We cannot do that. We cannot do that because we have sworn to serve medical director of the Makati Medical Center.