For seven days straight, the United States has deplored less than a thousand daily deaths from the coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, which refers. The United States has recorded 840 deaths in the past 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University count at 8:30 p.m. local on Wednesday. They remain the most bereaved country in the world by the pandemic, with more than 117,000 deaths from the virus and more than 2.1 million cases diagnosed in the territory.
Trump meeting at the height of an epidemic
Despite these encouraging daily reports, the first wave of contaminations continues to last, with a number of new cases identified which is still around 20,000 each day. The American epidemic has moved from New York and the northeast of the country to a broad band covering the south and west.
More than a dozen states are reporting their highest number of new Covid-19 cases since the start of the pandemic. This is the case of Oklahoma, where Donald Trump, refusing all alarmism, intends to hold a large electoral rally of tens of thousands of people this weekend.
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A still worrying situation in Brazil
The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread strongly in Brazil, where the government nevertheless affirms that the situation is under control and the deconfinement continues gradually in most of the States. Wednesday evening, the last official daily daily report of the Ministry of Health reported figures close to the records of confirmed deaths and contaminations, with 1,269 deaths and 32,188 additional cases in the last 24 hours.
Second most affected country behind the United States, Brazil has a total of 46,510 deaths, according to these data which could be very far from reality, due to the lack of massive test campaigns. The total of contaminations (more than 955,000) should reach the million before the end of the week, in this country of 212 million inhabitants. The previous day, a new contamination record had been broken, with 34,918 new cases confirmed within 24 hours.
This macabre picture, which means that a Brazilian dies almost every minute of the Covid-19, did not prevent General Walter Braga Netto, head of government, from showing his optimism the day before. "We stand in solidarity with the bereaved families, the crisis is there, but it is managed", he assured during a videoconference organized by the association of Merchants of Rio de Janeiro. He notably highlighted the fact that with regard to its large population, the rate of 212 deaths per million inhabitants of Brazil remains much lower than that of countries like the United Kingdom (620) or Spain ( 580).
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Poor regions particularly affected
In Rio, the plan to resume activities entered its second phase on Wednesday, with the reopening of certain businesses, but also the authorization to resume the local football championship, with a first match already scheduled for Thursday. In the state of Rio, where more than 8,000 people died of Covid-19, if the situation improves in the capital, it continues to be worrying in other cities, especially inland.
This pattern is repeated in most Brazilian states, including Sao Paulo, the most populous and most affected in the country, which broke a new 24-hour death record Wednesday, 389, for a total of 11,521. The virus continues to wreak havoc in poor northeastern regions, where state governors are sometimes forced to tighten the containment measures they planned to ease.