• Coronavirus in Brazil is a war of numbers
  • Coronavirus: over 7 million infections in the world, boom in Latin America with 82,526 new cases
  • WHO: "Latin America has become the epicenter of the pandemic"

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June 16, 2020 Over 8 million coronavirus cases have been overcome worldwide. To be precise - according to what emerges from the data of AFP - they are 8.000.202. The deaths instead are 435.176. According to Johns Hopkins University, the outbreaks are 7.97 million. In Europe - according to AFP - the infections almost reach two and a half million (2,417,902), the deaths have risen to 188,085.

In Latin America and the Caribbean , according to the WHO 'became the epicenter of the pandemic', the cases numbered 1,681,378 and 80,000 deaths were exceeded (80,505). Only in Brazilthere are 43,959 dead: in the last 24 hours 627 have been recorded, while the confirmed cases of Covid-19 have risen to 888,271 as reported by the Brazilian authorities. The situation is becoming increasingly dramatic and even stricter measures have been adopted to try to stem the virus, such as measuring the temperature before entering the shops and the obligation to wear a mask in public areas. Measure that if violated implies a fine as happened to the minister of education Abraham Weintraub who was sanctioned for participating in a demonstration without the protective device. The country could reach one million infected people in the coming days, as Dalcy Albuquerque, a member of the Brazilian Society of Tropical Diseases, says in a projection.

Between Mexico and Peru touched the 23 thousand deaths
inMexico deaths rose to 17,141, the cases are 146,837. In Peruinstead the confirmed cases are 229.736, the deaths 6.688.

Turkey. Cases doubled compared to June
The number of coronavirus cases in Turkey continues to grow, with 1,592 patients tested positive, double those recorded on June 2. The Turkish health minister, Fahrettin Koca, made the news of the epidemic, now on the rise in Turkey, with 18 patients who lost their lives in the last 24 hours, more than the average of the entire last week . For the third consecutive day after almost two weeks, Turkey has returned to a thousand daily infections. As for deaths, the weekly average dropped to 17 last week, after 22 in the previous week and 28 in the previous two. The total number of infections reported from 10 March to today has grown to 179,831, while the deaths are 4,825 and just over 152,000 have been cured. Almost 2.7 million tests carried out in all, about 42 thousand in the last 24 hours. 

Chile extends 90-day catastrophe
The Chilean authorities have decided to extend the catastrophe status in force since mid-March to counter the spread of coronavirus by 90 days. The Latin American country experienced a surge of infections in May and June, with an average of over 5,000 cases of Covid-19 per day, filling the intensive care units and pushing the authorities to declare a rigid lockdown on the capital Santiago de Chile So far, there have been 179,436 coronavirus cases, with over 3,300 deaths.