A number of global COVID-19 hot spots in South America and Europe reported new daily records, including Brazil, Chile, Turkey, and Bulgaria.Meanwhile, the World Health Organization (WHO) officials today repeated an urgent call for 10 million COVID-19 vaccine doses for countries that haven't started vaccinating health workers and other vulnerable groups.Surges affecting broad age-groupsAt a WHO briefing today, Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, the group's technical lead for COVID-19, said six of Brazil's states are in critical condition, and most states have intensive care unit (ICU) occupancies of more than 90%.
She said more than 6,000 COVID-19 patients in Brazil are waiting for ICU beds.Van Kerkhove said the more transmissible P1 SARS-CoV-2