On Friday, 6,106 new deaths and 271,069 new cases were recorded worldwide. Latin America is the most affected region. Pandemic of
On Friday, 6,106 new deaths and 271,069 new cases were recorded worldwide. Latin America is the most affected region.
The new coronavirus pandemic, which has killed at least 721,902 people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the disease at the end of December, according to a report compiled by France Press from official sources. on Saturday. Nearly 20 million cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the outbreak began, including at least 11,514,500 who are now considered cured.
However, the number of diagnosed cases does not represent even a fraction of the actual number of infected people. Some countries test only severe cases, others use tests as a priority for follow-up, and many poor countries do not have this limited screening capacity.
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On Friday, 6,106 new deaths and 271,069 new cases were recorded worldwide. The countries that recorded the most new deaths in their latest balance sheets were Brazil with 1,079 new deaths, the United States (1,062) and India (933).
The United States remains the most affected country
The United States, facing a resurgence of the epidemic since the end of June, is still far and away the country that mourns the more than 160,000 deaths from the new coronavirus. On Friday, they recorded 1,062 deaths and more than 52,000 new cases of the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University as of Friday.
The school year has begun in several American states, including those where the coronavirus is still actively circulating, and quarantines have already had to be introduced due to sick students. In a Mississippi district that was scrutinized after high school cases of Covid-19, tests yielded 25% positive results.
Latin America, the region most affected
On Friday, Latin America and the Caribbean became the region of the world most affected by the number of deaths from the new coronavirus. With at least 213,120 deaths, this region overtakes Europe, which has 212,660 deaths, according to the balance prepared on Friday.
In the last seven days, almost one in two deaths worldwide (44%) occurred in Latin America. The region is also the one with the highest number of infections (over 5.3 million), mainly in Brazil, which on Friday is approaching the $100,000 death toll mark with 2.9 million cases. In this country, the official estimate is “six to seven times lower than reality,” says Domingos Alves, an expert on Brazilian statistics related to the pandemic.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who has continued to downplay the illness he described as a “little flu,” said Friday that he had a “clear conscience” about his handling of the crisis. Mexico is the third most affected country in the world with 51,311 deaths (469,407 cases).
Chile crossed the 10,000 dead mark
On Saturday, Chile crossed the 10,000 death mark from the new coronavirus, five months after the first case appeared in this Latin American country, one of the most affected in the region, the Minister of Health announced.
In the last 24 hours, there were 53 new deaths, bringing the total death toll to 10,011. During the same period, authorities identified 2,201 new cases of contamination, bringing the total to more than 370,000, Minister Enrique Paris said at a press conference.
Europe is being partially redefined
The third worst affected country, the United Kingdom has 46,511 deaths (309,005 cases). Elsewhere in Europe, Belgium laments the highest number of deaths relative to its population, with 85 deaths for every 100,000 inhabitants, followed by the United Kingdom (69), Peru (63), Spain (61) and Italy (58).
Spain, where local quarantine restrictions have been imposed, especially in the Basque Country, Catalonia and Aragon, added the town of Aranda de Duero, with 32,000 inhabitants, 150 km north of Madrid, to the list on Friday. Police checkpoints have been set up on the outskirts of the city and will remain closed for at least two weeks.
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In Germany, two schools in the north of the country had to close their doors after the emergence of cases of infection with Covid-19, just a few days after the start of classes. Starting Saturday, Berlin made testing for Covid-19 mandatory for all travelers returning from a risk area.
In England, it is the city of Preston, in Lancashire (North West), where containment will be increased due to the increase in the number of cases at the local level. Similar bans are in place in some regions of the North West, West Yorkshire and Leicester.
Faced with continued travel restrictions related to the pandemic, the European Commission called on EU member states on Friday to allow unmarried partners of European citizens and residents to enter the Union.
The EU also decided on Friday to remove Morocco from the list of countries exempted from travel restrictions due to the resurgence of infections. In the United Kingdom, a quarantine is introduced for visitors from Belgium, Andorra or the Bahamas from Saturday
Concerns about Syria
In the war in Syria, the dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Damascus Noubough al-Awa mentions the situation with the epidemic as “terrifying” and explains that “many citizens go to public hospitals, but unfortunately all the rooms are full”.
The Ministry of Health, which has so far officially identified a total of 999 cases, including 48 deaths, admitted it did not always have the “capacity to carry out large-scale screening in different provinces”. With a health sector battered by deadly conflict since 2011 and devastating hospitals, under-equipped or damaged, Syria is unable to cope with the epidemic.
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Date of update: August 9, 2020, 07:58
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