Covid-19 globally in a nutshell

It was a good week for South Africa as it was announced the single-dose J&j/janssen Covid-19 vaccine — manufactured by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, which is owned by Johnson & Johnson — is 85% effective against the emerging global Covid-19 variants. South Africa might soon get some of these vaccines to speed up its Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. There are global concerns about the nearing Easter weekend, which could cause Covid-19 infections to rise again significantly. France has implemented new nightly curfews for four weeks stretching across Easter. Germany also announced a special Easter lockdown, but no sooner were the restrictions announced as withdrawn again after heavy criticism from citizens. In Brazil, another grim milestone was reached when the country’s daily death toll reached a new record of more than 3000 Covid-19 deaths. President Jair Bolsonaro failed miserably when he assured citizens that they will “very soon return to normal life.”