Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (AP Photo / Silvia Izquierdo)

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May 24, 2020 Brazil is still the second country in the world after the United States for the number of infected people, to guide the rise of the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America where in the last 24 hours the confirmed cases of infection have reached 702,819, of which 38,748 died. This is what emerges today from a statistic elaborated by the Ansa on the basis of the known data of 34 between Latin American nations and territories.   

The South American giant accumulated another 16,508 Covid-19 patients in one day totaling 347,398, and nearly 1,000 new deaths, at 22,013. At a distance, for the second and third places, there are Peru (115.754 and 3.373) and Chile (65.393 and 673).

In Argentina , President Alberto Fernández announced a new extension of preventive and compulsory social isolation last night in Buenos Aires until June 7 inclusive. 

There have been 1,127 deaths from coronaviruses in the United States in the past 24 hours, slightly down from yesterday when 1,260 were counted. This is what emerges from the data of John Hopkins University, according to which the total infections in the country are 1.62 million and 97.048 the total deaths.