Global nCoV cases of more than 107 million, more than 2.3 million people die, the United States is close to President Biden's goal, injecting 1.5 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine a day.

The United States, the world's largest epidemic region, recorded an additional 79,772 infections and 2,574 deaths, bringing the total number of infected people to 27,783,399 and 479,082 deaths.

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Medical staff caring for Covid-19 infected patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Oslo, Norway, last November. Photo: Reuters.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on average, 1.49 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine were injected each day last week, up from an average of 900,000 doses when President Joe Biden took over.

He pledged to give Americans 100 million doses of vaccine in the first 100 days of his inauguration, a goal many say is not ambitious enough as the rate of vaccination has increased in the final weeks of his term.

Despite the rapid pace of vaccination, state leaders complain that the limited supply of vaccines is slowing their progress.

According to Reuters analysis of state and county reports, new Covid-19 cases in the US fell for four consecutive weeks to the lowest level since early November last year.

Nationwide, 7.3% of tests tested positive for nCoV, down from 8.5% last week.

However, according to the researchers, at least three new variants of nCoV currently circulating in the US, including variant B.1.1.7 discovered in the UK, are 30-40% more contagious.

Dr Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on February 8, called on people to be alert.

India, the world's second-largest epidemic region, reports an additional 10,510 infections and 85 deaths, bringing the total number of people infected and dead from Covid-19 to 10,858,300 and 155,280, respectively.

The Indian government urged states on Feb. 6 to accelerate the Covid-19 vaccination program after results from an assessment showed the country had a "significant opportunity" to accelerate the program.

India vaccinated about 3 million health workers in the first two weeks of its vaccination campaign, but needs to speed up to reach that target over the summer.

Brazil, the third largest epidemic region in the world, recorded an additional 1,272 deaths from Covid-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 233,520.

Brazil on February 6 received the first shipment of 88 liters of active ingredient to produce AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine, allowing Fiocruz biomedical center to ship 2.8 million doses of vaccine.

Currently, only injections developed by AstraZeneca and Chinese company Sinovac are approved for emergency use in Brazil.

He recorded 1,052 more deaths, bringing the total number of deaths from the pandemic to 113,850, while the number of infections increased by 12,364 from the previous day, to 3,972,148.

UK Vaccine Implementation Minister Nadhim Zahawi said on February 7 that the country could increase its Covid-19 vaccine vaccination in the fall and then roll out annual vaccinations to deal with the nCoV strain variables.

He aims to give the first injection to all people over 70 years old, the vulnerable, and the frontline health workers by mid-February.

France, the sixth largest epidemic region in the world, recorded an additional 18,870 cases and 508 deaths, bringing cases and deaths to 3,360,235 and 80,147, respectively.

Lawmakers of this country on February 9 passed a law extending the national health emergency to June 1 when the number of Covid-19 deaths exceeded 80,000.

Iran, the most serious epidemic region in the Middle East, recorded an additional 7,640 infections and 89 deaths, bringing the total number of infections and deaths to 1,481,396 and 58,625 respectively.

In Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the region's largest epidemic with 1,174,779 cases, an increase of 8,700, of which 31,976 people die, an increase of 213. Experts say the actual number of infections in Indonesia could be 3 times higher.

Indonesia has launched a program for testing nCoV through the breath at train stations in the context of the country's increasingly complicated epidemic.

The Philippines, the second largest epidemic region in Southeast Asia, reported 540,227 cases and 11,296 deaths, up 1,235 and 65 cases, respectively.

Due to the emergence of the more contagious nCoV strain from the UK in the country, President Rodrigo Duterte last month decided to re-impose a ban on children aged 10-14 from leaving home, despite fears that this will cause the background