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January 19, 2021 According to the latest update from Johns Hopkins University, 95,555,533 are the number of confirmed cases in the world since the beginning of the pandemic.

2,040,085 deaths, almost half of which came from the

United States

(398,981),

Brazil

(210,299),

India

(152,556),

Mexico

(141,248) and the

United Kingdom

(90,031).



In terms of the number of total infections (limited to countries that have exceeded two million cases), the US remains the most affected country with 24.07 million, followed by

India

(10.57 million),

Brazil

(8.51)

Russia

(3.55)

Great Britain

(3.44)

France

(2.97)

Turkey

(2.39),

Italy

(2.39),

Spain

(2.33) and

Germany

(2.05).



United States


In the United States, according to the count of the Jhu, at 7 am on January 19 the total number of confirmed cases is 24,074,658, with 398,981 deaths.

In the last 24 hours, at least 1,440 victims and 142,588 further infections have been reported.


The spread of the virus in the country continues to be high, with over 100,000 new cases per day since November 13, 2020. In just 17 days, it has gone from 20 million confirmed cases on January 1, 2021 to 24 million this week.



California is the first US state to register over three million cases of Covid-19.

The number of infections in the country's most populous state has tripled over the past two months.

And more than a million have been registered in Los Angeles County, where one in 10 people have contracted the virus.



Germany


Germany has recorded another 11,369 cases of Covid-19 and 989 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to data released by the Robert Koch Institute.

With over 2 million infections and 46,000 deaths, Germany is ready to tighten the restrictions in force in the country, to deal with the variants of the virus that have emerged in recent weeks that make it more transmissible.

Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet today with the leaders of the 16 federal states to decide on the new measures.



China


Three million more people in lockdown in China after a new wave of coronavirus cases.

The decision was made in two cities in the northeastern province of Jilin, Gongzhuling and Tonghua, after a sudden spike of over 100 cases linked to an asymptomatic street vendor.

The man had in fact crossed the two cities also organizing health seminars in which several elderly people had participated and selling products for longevity.



Japan


Japan today detected 4,925 new cases of infection from Covid-19, with 58 deaths.

This was reported by the Japanese authorities.

Last week, the Japanese government expanded the state of emergency, which was already in place in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, to several other cities and areas in the country, including the cities of Osaka, Fukuoka and Kyoto.


Japan records the first untraceable cases of the British coronavirus variant in the country, increasing the potential risk of infections despite the ongoing state of emergency.

This was announced by the Japanese Ministry of Health, explaining that the three cases identified in the prefecture of Shizuoka, southwest of Tokyo concern two women between 20 and 40 years of age and a man in his 60s, who have never been to Gran Brittany. 


In a press conference, the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Takaji Wakita, said that the infection in all likelihood occurred within the community, confirming the high level of transmissibility of the virus and without the possibility of tracing. .

The latest cases bring the total sum of positivity of the new English variant to 45 in Japan.



Colombia


Curfew is in place today in Bogotà as Colombia is preparing to enter its third weekend of total lockdown.

The increase in infections threatens to overwhelm the hospitals in the Colombian capital.

"We have just spent two weekends in general quarantine and we will be this too," announced Mayor Claudia Lopez in a live Facebook.



This measure is also imposed in Cali, the third largest city in Colombia, with a population of 2.2 million, until January 22.

The employment rate of intensive care units in hospitals reaches 92% in Bogota and 94% in Cali.

"the vast majority of people currently hospitalized were infected in December," said claudia lopez.