The new coronavirus has caused an additional 819 deaths in 24 hours in the United States, according to the count at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday (12:30 a.m. GMT Wednesday) of Johns Hopkins University, which references. The total number of Covid-19 deaths in the country is 111,750, and nearly two million cases have been identified, according to university figures continuously updated. The United States is, in absolute terms, by far the country most affected by the pandemic, in terms of both the number of deaths and the number of cases diagnosed. Some 518,000 people are declared cured there.
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For the past two weeks, daily reports have mostly fallen below 1,000 dead, after reaching a high of more than 3,000 dead in 24 hours in mid-April. But the country continues to register around 20,000 new cases of coronavirus every day, and is struggling to come down from this plateau.
The less urbanized regions, the Midwest, the South and part of the West, have partly taken over, in terms of new infections, from the five Northeast States where the epidemic was previously the most intense, and where half of the American deaths in Covid-19 have been recorded (from New Jersey to Massachusetts, with New York in the middle).
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According to an average of eleven epidemiological models produced by researchers from the University of Massachusetts, the number of deaths from Covid-19 should be close to 130,000 dead in the country by July 4, the day of the American national holiday.
Over 38,000 dead in Brazil
Brazil has recorded 1,272 deaths from coronaviruses in 24 hours, bringing the total to 38,406, health officials said on Tuesday that adopted the existing daily checkup model before controversial changes made by Jair Bolsonaro's government.
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New infections totaled 32,091, the second highest number since the start of the pandemic, for a total of 739,503, according to official data from the Ministry of Health. But experts estimate that the number of cases could be up to 15 times higher due to the lack of massive screening in this country of 210 million inhabitants.
Brazil is the second country in number of people infected. It is third in terms of deaths, but could quickly occupy second place, ahead of the United Kingdom (40,883 deaths). The United States is the country most affected by Covid-19, with nearly 2 million cases and more than 111,000 deaths.
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Since Friday, the government had made changes in the dissemination of pandemic figures, delivering its reports increasingly later and ceasing to report the total number of cases and deaths. These changes have sparked an avalanche of criticism and generated parallel computing initiatives. One such initiative, launched by a consortium of the country's main media, based on data from the Regional Health Secretariats, indicates that Brazil has recorded 37,840 deaths and 719,449 infections.
On Monday evening, a judge of the Federal Supreme Court, Alexandre de Moraes, ordered that the government of the far-right president communicate the statistics of the pandemic in their entirety.