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January 20, 2021 According to the latest update from Johns Hopkins University, 96,158,735 is the number of confirmed cases in the world since the beginning of the pandemic.

2,056,996 deaths, almost half of which came from the United States (401,553), Brazil (211,491), India (152,718), Mexico (142,832) and the United Kingdom (91,643). 

Ten countries that have exceeded two million total infections: the USA, which remains the most affected country with 24.2 million, followed by India (10.59 million), Brazil (8.57) and Russia (3.57 ) Great Britain (3.47) France (2.99), Italy (2.4), Turkey (2.39), Spain (2.37) and Germany (2.07).

has imposed the lockdown on 1.7 million people in the district of Daxing, south of the capital where the new airport is located, after six cases of Covid-19 were found for a total in the city that rose to 15. "I cases detected in Daxing have raised the alarm that the epidemic situation is tough and complex ", said Xu Hejian, spokesman for the municipality, at a press conference.

"We cannot loosen up on the prevention of imported cases and on the domestic rebound."

Beijing has also extended the period of restrictions to 28 days for anyone arriving from abroad, including 14 days in centralized quarantine.

The

has recorded Tuesday, January 19 a new record of deaths due to Covid-19, or 1,584 deaths recorded in 24 hours, according to data published by national health authorities.

A country of 128 million inhabitants, Mexico today has 142,832 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.

It is the fourth most affected country in the world after the United States, Brazil and India.

The Mexican Ministry of Health also reported 18,894 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing the total number to 1,668,396. 

The death toll with Covid-19 in the

has exceeded 400 thousand.

Johns Hopkins University has evaluated it, which currently reports 401,553 victims and 24,246,830 confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic.

US President-elect Joe Biden, on the eve of his oath, solemnly paid tribute to the 400,000 US victims of Covid-19 in a short ceremony at the foot of the Abraham Lincoln monument.

The United States is the nation where the pandemic has caused the most victims in terms of numbers, but not in proportion to the population, surpassed by countries such as Italy and the United Kingdom.

According to the New York Times database, in the last 24 hours in the United States at least 2,770 people have died from Covid while 185,070 have been new infections.

In

, the main government spokesman said on Tuesday that the wide distribution of coronavirus vaccines is not a prerequisite for moving forward with this summer's Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.

As reported by several local media, including Japan Today, Japan's chief cabinet secretary Katsunobu Kato said in a press conference that the government is "considering global measures to have safe and secure Games, even without making vaccines a necessary condition". .

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's administration is adamant that the Olympics and Paralympics, postponed last year due to the global Covid-19 pandemic, will be held this year from late July to early September, despite public skepticism. given the increase in infections in the country.

Vaccinations in Japan are expected to begin by the end of February.