“In a way, South America has become the new epicenter of this disease. We see how many cases of the disease are growing in many countries in South America, ”says Mike Ryan, Interfax CEO.
To date, Brazil ranks third in the list of countries with a high number of coronavirus infections. In this country, COVID-19 was found in more than 310 thousand inhabitants. The number of people infected with coronavirus in Peru exceeds 100 thousand people, in Chile - more than 60 thousand.
Earlier, the representative office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa said that the number of deaths due to coronavirus infection COVID-19 in the region exceeded 3 thousand.