Coronavirus Vaccine Update: New York, NJ hospitalizations are lowest since the outbreak began.

NEW YORK (WABC) — The number of hospitalizations has dropped to its lowest level since the start of the coronavirus outbreak in both New York and New Jersey.

last sunday New York government office Andrew Cuomo has announced 330 hospitalizations for COVID-19 across the state.

On Saturday, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy tweeted that the number of hospitalizations had dropped below 300.

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A pop-up vaccination facility at St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights.
Cathedral of Saint John the Sacred with Governor Cuomo and the New York State Department of Health. A place to vaccinate against COVID-19 will be set up On Sunday, June 27, 2021

, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), Manhattan.

Healthcare providers will provide free J&J vaccinations to residents of the community. It serves neighborhoods with lower-than-average vaccination rates across the state. The cathedral will offer walk-in vaccinations for people over the age of 18 and no prior appointment is required.

The New York Archdiocese lifted some restrictions.
Masks are no longer needed during Mass at the Roman Catholic Church in New York for those who are vaccinated. The New York Archdiocese sent updated instructions to the pastor this week. An unvaccinated priest is obliged to wear a mask. Districts no longer need to carry out additional cleaning and disinfection.

Bangkok, 9 provinces, tighten control, intercept more cases
Faced with the rapidly increasing coronavirus cases The Thai capital has announced a ban on indoor dining and gatherings of more than 20 people, in addition to shutting down construction sites and shutting down workers’ rooms in Bangkok and nine other provinces.

The measures announced on Sunday will last for 30 days. Thailand has reported nearly 4,000 confirmed cases and 42 deaths in the last 24 hours. That figure has doubled recently and health officials blamed a lack of cooperation from migrant workers working in construction and in factories. The situation started a crisis. because Bangkok Hospital beds are lacking for critically ill COVID-19 patients, even as a number of field hospitals are being built.

Israel’s new leader begging youth to get vaccinated
Israel’s new prime minister urge the country’s youth to be vaccinated As the number of coronavirus cases has increased in recent days due to the Delta outbreak. Naftali Bennett’s comments came at a government meeting on Sunday in Jerusalem.

“We don’t want to impose any restrictions: not at parties. on a trip or something like that but because of this If you don’t want any restrictions Go get vaccinated today. Talk to your parents and get vaccinated,” he said.

Israel restores power to wear masks inside buildings Among the number of new infections that have increased in the past week. Israel’s Ministry of Health recorded 113 new coronavirus cases on Saturday.

Increasing cases in the UK
The UK has recorded the most new coronavirus infections since early February as the National Health Service implements a “grab it” program to further increase vaccination rates. Government figures on Saturday showed another 18,270 people tested for the virus across the UK, the highest daily number since February 5.

Over the past week, nearly 100,000 people have tested positive. increased about 50% in the previous week. This raises the question of whether the lockdown restrictions will end as planned.

Daily cases have increased quite substantially in the past few weeks as a result of the Delta variant, which was first identified in India and is considered by government scientists to be more contagious than previously dominant strains. Between 40% and 80% there are almost all new cases in the UK.

FDA increases the risk of coronary heart disease vaccine to
US Food and Drug Administration A warning about the risk of myocardial infarction and pericarditis was added to the factsheet for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines on Friday. The warning states that adverse events were reported after vaccination. especially after the second dose. They point to an increased risk of both types of heart inflammation. earlier this week U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vaccine Advisor It is heard that the agency has received about 1,200 reports of such heart inflammation after 300 million doses of the two vaccines. The CDC has confirmed about 300 of these cases, mostly young men and teenagers.

1 in 10 Americans do not receive a second dose of vaccine.
The CDC says more than one in 10 Americans misses the second COVID-19 vaccine. That’s about 15 million Americans who are not fully vaccinated and are at risk of delta spread. That’s 46% of the population who are not vaccinated at all. Adults under 30 are more likely to miss the second dose.

NYC Vaccination Rates by ZIP Code
There are approximately 12 communities in the New York City area. Where three out of four people have not been vaccinated, 7 On Your Side Investigates created a map where the darkest zip codes have the most and least vaccinated New Yorkers.

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