Hospitals on the brink of saturation and elected officials sounding the alarm: the outbreak of coronavirus cases continues unabated in the United States, as well as in Mexico, India, Chile. America, which celebrated its national holiday this weekend, has had record numbers of infections for more than a week, although President Donald Trump continues to play down the crisis, which he said was "on the point "to end. The country has recorded nearly 40,000 cases and 234 new deaths in the past 24 hours, according to a latest report published Sunday by Johns Hopkins University, which references.
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Not hiding his exasperation, the Democratic mayor of the Texas city of Austin, Steve Adler, had previously described the president's tone as "dangerous" for the inhabitants of his city, whose resuscitation services are in danger of being overwhelmed "d 'here ten days ". "If we don't change course, our hospitals could be overcrowded in two weeks," he said on CNN.
The new coronavirus pandemic has killed at least 531,789 people worldwide since the WHO office in China reported the appearance of the disease in late December, according to an AFP report from official sources. Sunday night. More than 11 million cases of infection have been officially diagnosed in 196 countries and territories since the start of the epidemic, of which just over half are now considered cured.
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The trend also remains worrying in several Latin American countries. Chile announced Sunday that it has crossed the threshold of 10,000 dead, and Colombia that of 4,000 dead. In Peru, the number of infected people exceeds 300,000, including more than 3,600 new cases in the last 24 hours. Bolivian Minister of Health Eidy Roca has been hospitalized for "complications from Covid-19". As for Mexico, it became the 5th most bereaved country on Saturday, with 30,366 deaths.
In India, the Taj Mahal, the country's main tourist attraction, will remain closed, authorities who face a record number of cases announced on Sunday: the Ministry of Health has reported some 25,000 new cases and 613 deaths in 24 hours, the highest daily increase since the start of the pandemic in the country at the end of January.
In Iran, authorities announced Sunday 163 deaths, bringing the death toll of the pandemic in the hardest hit country in the Near and Middle East to 11,571. In Morocco, which announced Sunday 698 new cases of contamination, its highest daily balance since the beginning of March, the city of Safi (south) was placed in quarantine following the appearance of a new epidemiological focus in a factory.