• 318,000 deaths worldwide. Over 13 thousand infections in 24 hours in Brazil
  • First case in Wuhan after a month, 14 new positives across China

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May 20, 2020 323 thousand deaths worldwide from coronavirus. 4.89 million cases ascertained. The healed: 1.69 million. In Latin America coronavirus deaths rose to 31,900 thousand, while the number of infections is 571 thousand. Firmly in third place for the number of infections in the world after the United States and Russia, Brazil records 271,628 cases, of which 17,971 enter the calculation of the dead. There are 1,179 deaths in the last 24 hours, the first time that the threshold of a thousand deaths in a day is exceeded in the country. To deal with the epidemic, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill that makes the use of the mask mandatory in public places.

Brazil follows Peru, which accumulates 99,483 infected and 2,914 dead, and Mexico (51,663 infections, 5,332 deaths). Chile (49.579 and 509), Ecuador (34.151 and 2.839), Colombia (16.935 and 613), Dominican Republic (12.223 and 441), Panama (9.726 and 279) and Argentina (8.371 and 382). 

The China - in the last 24 hours - recorded 5 new cases of coronavirus, one of which is imported. Another 16 are asymptomatic.