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Axios: World surpasses 200 million COVID cases

By Axios.

Published Aug. 5, 2021 at 7:19 am

A banner reading in Romanian "Who's afraid of vaccine" and depicting syringes as vampire fangs advertises the vaccination marathon organised at the "Bran Castle" in Bran village on May 8, 2021. - Romanian authorities organise during a whole weekend a non-stop vaccination marathon in several locations and Bucharest to offer to the people the opportunity to get vaccinated without prior appointment, hoping to increase the appetite of the population for the vaccines against Covid-19. Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign, 3,580,368 people have been vaccinated, of which 2,311,487 have received both doses of vaccine. "Bran Castle" is located in the central Transylvania region of Romania ans is thought to inspired Bram StokerТs DraculaТs Castle. This character is often confused with Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler), sometimes known as Vlad Dracul, who was a Walachian Prince with a castle, now in ruins, located in the Principality of Wallachia.

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The number of COVID-19 infections worldwide topped 200 million on Wednesday, according to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. Why it matters: The milestone highlights the effect of the highly contagious Delta variant. It took about a year for the world to reach 100 million cases, and only six months to double that, the New York Times reported.