A new course, a sad record this Sunday. The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 400,000 people worldwide, a number that has doubled in a month and a half, according to a report established by AFP from official sources Sunday at 4.30 p.m. high in Paris.
Almost 7 million cases
In total, at least 400,052 deaths have been recorded worldwide (for 6,926,960 cases) since the appearance of the virus in China in December, nearly half of which in Europe. The threshold of 200,000 deaths had been crossed 43 days ago, on April 25.
The United States was the country with the most deaths (109,802) and cases (1,920,061). The epidemic remains very active there: on average more than 900 new deaths have been recorded daily in the last seven days. This is followed by the United Kingdom (with a total of 40,542 deaths for 286,194 cases), Brazil, which on Friday became the third hardest hit country (35,930 deaths for 672,846 cases), then Italy (33,846 deaths, 234,801 cases) and France (29,142 deaths, 190,631 cases).
Brazil, the country with the fastest growing epidemic
The number of cases diagnosed still only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections, with some countries testing only the most serious cases, others using testing as a priority for tracing and number of poor countries with only capabilities limited screening.
According to the available data, Brazil is currently the country where the epidemic is progressing most rapidly. On average over the past seven days, more than a thousand new deaths and nearly 25,000 new infections have been recorded there every day.
After China and then Europe from March, the WHO declared on May 22 that South America was the "new epicenter" of the pandemic. 64,100 deaths and 1,291,471 cases were recorded in Latin America and the Caribbean on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. GMT. Between April 25 and June 7, the period in which the number of deaths doubled worldwide, the number of deaths there increased by almost nine.
After having concentrated more than 70% of the deaths due to the new coronavirus at the beginning of April, Europe (183,428 deaths, 2,272,365 cases), where the epidemic has considerably slowed down in recent weeks, now concentrates 46% of the 400,000 deaths. The United States and Canada (117,634 deaths for 2,015,118 cases) account for almost 30% of world deaths, Latin America and the Caribbean for more than 15%.
Asia totaled Sunday at 2:30 p.m. GMT 19,244 deaths for 679,662 cases, the Middle East 10,458 deaths (475,484 cases), Africa 5,057 deaths (184,220 cases), and Oceania (131 deaths, 8,640 cases).
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This assessment was carried out using data collected by AFP offices from the competent national authorities and information from the World Health Organization (WHO).
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