Chinese President Xi Jinping recorded a rare address to the UN body promising to halt coal projects, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country will present the Paris climate agreement to its parliament next month, and US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson stressed further climate action during an Oval Office meeting. The climate crisis was front and center at the UN General Assembly yesterday. Inside Louisiana hospital with most Covid-19 patients in state And in Iraq, less than 1% of the population has received a coronavirus vaccine dose. The North African nation now has the highest Covid-19 mortality rate in the Eastern Mediterranean region and on the African continent. Tunisia has been hit especially hard and is reimposing lockdowns. The Delta variant is also fueling huge surges in the Middle East and North Africa. Los Angeles County, the nation’s most populous county, will reinstate its mask mandate this weekend, requiring masking indoors regardless of vaccination status. Hospitals are filling up in places like Arkansas, where only 35% of the population is fully vaccinated. Leana Wen says it’s time to “do something dramatic” to protect the country from a tragic fall season. Leaders want to revive their countries’ economies, especially their tourism sectors, but experts are worried that low vaccination rates in the region could spell disaster.Ĭovid-19 cases are surging in almost every state, and CNN medical analyst Dr. Meanwhile, parts of Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, are coming out of long lockdowns and abandoning their “zero Covid” strategies. The best way to avoid another devastating season, doctors say, is to get vaccinated for both. Additionally, about 12,000 to 50,000 Americans lose their lives to flu every year. The US is back at a point where more than 2,000 people are dying of Covid-19 every day on average, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Medical experts are warning of another deadly pandemic winter as Covid-19 numbers tick up and flu season threatens. Watch car get swept away in AZ flash floods Also in the New York City area, millions are under a heat advisory as the heat index (the “feels like” temp) could hit 103 degrees today. Across the Atlantic, an opposite threat looms: About 71 large wildfires are now scorching 1 million acres across the US, and their smoke can be seen from California all the way to New York. The floods were caused by the heaviest rainfall there in more than a century. These photos show the stunning scale of destruction. Rescue and recovery efforts are underway in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, where rivers swelled and swept through towns, dragging entire structures away in the flow. Sign up here.)ĭozens are dead and more than 1,000 people are assumed missing after flash floods ripped through parts of Western Europe.
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