A man in the stands is wearing a mask in front of the doctor. Anthony Fauci throws the first pitch in a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees on Tuesday, Aug. 8. September 9, 2022, in Seattle. Fauci is President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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A man in the stands is wearing a mask in front of the doctor. Anthony Fauci throws the first pitch in a baseball game between the Seattle Mariners and the New York Yankees on Tuesday, Aug. 8. September 9, 2022, in Seattle. Fauci is President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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President Joe Biden said in a statement 60 minutes In an interview on Sunday, the COVID-19 pandemic was a thing of the past.
“The pandemic is over,” he said. “We’re still having issues with COVID. We’re still doing a lot of work. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one’s wearing masks. Everyone seems to be in great shape, so I think it’s a change, I think [the Detroit Auto show resuming after three years] is a good example. “
The National Institutes of Health defines a pandemic as “an epidemic of a disease or other health condition that occurs over a wide area (multiple countries or continents), usually affecting a substantial portion of the population.”
So are we really clear?
Globally, there have been about 612 million cases of coronavirus. The number of new daily cases in many countries, including the United States (806,987), France (366,554) and India (311,982), peaked in January, according to our World in Data, an international group of scientists.
We’ve come a long way since then – there were about 493,000 cases globally on Saturday – but thousands of cases are still being detected every day, and many estimates are likely to be canceled because many cases are not Report.
From Aug. 16 to Sept. 17, there were 19.4 million new cases worldwide, with the most significant increases in Japan (29%), Taiwan (20%) and Hong Kong (19%). During this period, cases in the U.S. increased by 3%, equivalent to 2.5 million incidents.
In Japan, there is a cap on the number of people who can travel to the country each day, and individual travel is banned, although those guidelines are expected to be withdrawn soon. Also, in September, Nikkei reported that on July 7, the country lifted the requirement to be tested within 72 hours of landing in Japan, as long as you are vaccinated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also eased COVID-19 restrictions, such as issuing the same guidance to vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans and shortening the quarantine period from 10 days to five. Although, it has yet to publicly declare the end of the pandemic.