The overall balance of coronavirus-borne disease topped 217 million on Tuesday, while the death toll rose to 4.51 million, according to data added by Johns Hopkins University. The United States leads the world with a total of 39 million cases and 638,715 deaths. The daily average of new cases over the past seven days was 158,946 on Monday, up 12% from two weeks ago, according to a New York Times tracker. The daily average death toll rose to 1,348, up 91 percent in two weeks, and is now surpassing 1,000 for the first time since March, according to the tracker. The daily average of hospitalizations rose to 100,663, 22% more than two weeks ago and continued to trend to the highest levels since the winter. A study comparing individual immune responses to two major COVID-19 vaccines has shown that Moderna’s MRNA,
has created more than twice as many antibodies as Pfizer PFE,
and BioNTech BNTX,
The study with 2,499 Belgian health workers who were vaccinated with two doses of any company vaccine was published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. India has the second highest number of deaths after the United States (438,560) and is the third by cases (32.8 million), according to JHU data. Brazil has the second highest death toll, with 579,574 and has 20.8 million cases. In Europe, Russia has 180,009 deaths, followed by the United Kingdom with 132,808 deaths.