The death toll from the emerging coronavirus (Covid-19) virus in the world exceeded seven million, yesterday, according to an AFP count based on official figures announced, while the epidemic continues to spread in Latin America.
In Latin America, the death toll has exceeded 400,000. With seven million out of 18 million people living in Chile, Santiago has become the main epicenter of the epidemic, with 80% of infections registered, while health care services are on the verge of collapse.
And counted no less than seven million and 3,851 cases of coronavirus emerging in the world, and 402 thousand and 867 deaths, most of them in Europe, the continent most affected by the epidemic, with two million and 275 thousand infections, and 183 thousand deaths, and the number of infections in the United States reached one million and 942 thousand cases , And 110,000 deaths.
The number of reported infections in the world doubled in just over a month, and more than a million new cases of Covid-19 were recorded in the last nine days.
South America, Chile, has set records during the past 24 hours, with 96 deaths and 6,405 injuries, bringing the total number of deaths to 2290.
In Peru, the second most affected country in Latin America after Brazil, the health system is on the verge of collapse, especially due to a lack of oxygen.
In Brazil, the third most affected country by the epidemic in the world after the United States and Britain, the Governor of Rio de Janeiro announced the easing of isolation measures, and the Brazilian government published the evening of the day before yesterday, varying numbers of deaths and injuries in 24 hours, so the first outcome reported 1382 additional deaths, while she indicated A second toll of 525 deaths. The second toll also came to record about 19,000 injuries compared to 12500 in the first toll, and in all cases the official toll in the country exceeded the threshold of 36,000 deaths, knowing that scientists in Brazil consider it to be a much lower number in reality.
In the United States, where anti-racist demonstrations occupy news bulletins, isolation measures continue to be lifted, and this week, New York is entering the first phase of a plan to resume economic activities that were suspended due to the outbreak of the "Covid-19" epidemic, and construction companies and factories in the American economic capital will be allowed Business will resume, retail stores will be allowed to reopen with some restrictions, and in the last 24 hours, the United States has recorded 691 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
In Europe, where isolation measures continue to be lifted in a number of countries including France, during the weekend Poland recorded a sharp increase in the number of HIV infections with 1,151 new infections, and about two-thirds of the injured are workers at the Zovyovka Mine in the south of the country, and members of their families.
In Britain, the authorities, which recorded 40,542 deaths in total, lift the restrictions very slowly, and every person who arrives from abroad from yesterday as of yesterday must submit to a 14-day quarantine in order to avoid registering new infections coming from abroad, and the airlines have condemned British Airways And "EasyJet" and "Ryanair", in a joint statement, with this measure, which I described as "disproportionate."
- Injuries doubled in a month ... One million cases were recorded in the last nine days.