The number of confirmed cases of newly created Corona Virus globally exceeded 5.3 million, at a time when the World Health Organization announced that South America is becoming a new focus of the epidemic, noting the critical situation in Brazil in particular.

"South America has become a new hotspot for the disease," said Michael Raine, WHO's emergency officer, at an Internet conference in Geneva.

"We see the number of infections increasing in many South American countries. The concern includes many of these countries, but Brazil is clearly the most affected so far."

This epidemiological spread in South America heralded severe repercussions on the economy and jobs, in contrast with the case of Europe, which began to gradually restore the rhythm of normalcy.

The World Health Organization stated that Brazil recorded more than 300 thousand confirmed injuries and 19 thousand deaths. Note that the population of approximately 210 million people; This makes it the third most affected country in the world after the United States and Russia.

Brazilian case
 , WHO official Michael Ryan said that "most of the cases were counted in the São Paulo region (...), but the rate of infection according to the population is highest in the Amazon (state), where about 490 people out of every 100,000 people were injured, which is a high rate" .

In the tombs of major cities such as São Paulo, grave diggers are working at a rapid pace.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's insistence on continuing work and launching the economy since the start of the health crisis sparked major differences with the rulers of the Brazilian states.

But the president and state governors who held a video conference eased their tone and rounded their positions.

In neighboring Peru, most hospitals are on the verge of collapse, official agencies said.

"The situation is like a horror movie. Inside the hospital is like a cemetery, patients die in chairs and in wheelchairs," the nurse at the Hospital "Ipolito Unanoi" in Lima Miguel Armas told the French press.

In Argentina, confirmed cases exceeded 10 thousand cases on Friday, after recording the largest daily toll since the start of the pandemic.

Government data showed 10,649 injuries, an increase of 718 cases from the previous day, mostly in the capital, Buenos Aires, and the number of deaths reached 433 cases.

A report of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the International Labor Organization painted a very bleak picture of the consequences of the health crisis in that region.

The report, which was published Thursday in Santiago, said that the number of unemployed people will rise to 11.5 million due to the epidemic in Latin America, and the contraction in the region's economy this year will reach 5.3%, the worst since 1930.

Globally, the total number of detected HIV infections exceeded 5 million and 304,000 cases, of whom more than 340,000 died, while more than two million and 158,000 recovered, according to the World Meters platform for global statistics.

Trump calls for places of worship
 to be opened In the United States, the country most affected by the epidemic, President Donald Trump called on state governors to allow places of worship to be reopened "immediately" despite the emerging Corona virus.

"Today, I see places of worship like churches, temples and mosques as essential places that provide indispensable services," Trump said at a White House news conference on Friday. "I urge rulers to allow our churches and places of worship to be reopened."

"If they do not comply, I will bypass their authority." Without clarifying how he intends to do so, knowing that the decision to reopen places of worship depends on the authorities of each state. "In America, we need a lot of prayer, not less than it," Trump added.

On Thursday, Trump announced that he had ordered that flags be flown over federal buildings across the country for three days. In honor of the victims of the emerging corona virus.

In the latest daily toll, the United States recorded 1,260 new deaths from the Corona virus within 24 hours, according to the Johns Hopkins University count Friday evening local time, and this is a constant toll compared to the previous day.

In all, more than 97,000 people have died as a result of the epidemic in the United States, according to WorldMeter, out of the 1.6 million diagnosed infections.