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Mecca, Jul 18 (EFE/EPA).- Hajj pilgrims streamed out of the holy city of Mecca on Sunday, amid strict rules to curb the spread of coronavirus.The 2021 Hajj pilgrimage is allowed for a maximum of 60,000 residents and nationals of Saudi Arabia who are under 65 year old without a chronic disease and who can show proof of vaccination. Hajj 2021 is the second year that its access is being limited due to the global outbreak of the COVID-19 Coronavirus. (Camera: STRINGER).SHOT LIST: PILGRIMS WEARING PROTECTIVE FACE MASKS WALK IN THE MUSLIM HOLY CITY OF MECCA, ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE ANNUAL HAJJ PILGRIMAGE, SAUDI ARABIA.
People are vaccinated at a drive-through center at the Bonilla Stadium, in the Miraflores district of Lima, as Latin America's Covid-19 death toll is set to hit 1 million. IMAGES
The U.S. could soon be giving at least a million COVID-19 vaccinations a day. This would be a major shift from the current speed which has been described as a sluggish start. Dr. Anthony Fauci warned of a dangerous next few weeks as the coronavirus surges. The slow pace is frustrating health officials and a desperate public alike, says HuffPost. Only about a third of the first supplies shipped to states have been used as of Tuesday morning. This is just over three weeks into the vaccination campaign.
The Transportation Security Administration screened 1,284,599 people in airports nationwide on Sunday. That is the most since the COVID-19 pandemic's start, says Business Insider. Sunday was also the sixth day in the last 10 that the TSA screened more than 1 million travelers. More than 63,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in December. December 2020 is now the deadliest month of the pandemic. Anthony Fauci said the pandemic will most likely get worse over the next few weeks due to high holiday travel.
The majority of counties in the state of California have moved to the "purple tier" denotation. The purple tier is the most serious of the state's ranking system, reports Business Insider. Under the purple designation, "many" non-essential businesses are forced to halt their indoor operations. This is to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus, also known as COVID-19. California over the weekend became the second state to report more than 1 million cases, joining Texas. Many Americans are predicting another shut down in many states with climbing cases.
Residents of Washington, DC, line up early in the morning at a Covid-19 drive-through test site. More than one million deaths from the novel coronavirus have been recorded worldwide since it emerged in China in December 2019, according to an AFP tally based on official sources at 2230 GMT Sunday. IMAGES
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