• Covid-19: the US exceeds 25 million cases, over 400,000 deaths

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January 25, 2021The threshold of 100 million infected with the coronavirus in the world has been touched. This was revealed by data from John Hopkins University, which updates the total number of confirmed cases globally to 99,192,353. On the other hand, more than two million, or 2,129,403 people have lost their lives due to complications attributable to the infection. 



Countries with over 2 million total cases

With 2,015,485 total cases,

Colombia

adds to the list of countries that have exceeded 2 million infections, after the

United States

(25,124,948),

India

(10,667,736),

Brazil

( 8,844,577),

Russia

(3,679,247),

United Kingdom

(3,657,857),

France

(3,112,055),

Spain

(2,499,560),

Italy

(2,466,813),

Turkey

(2,429,605),

Germany

(2,147,769).



Colombia exceeds 2 million infections

The number of infections from Covid-19 officially registered in Colombia since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded 2 million, of which 1.8 have been cured, according to data from the American University Johns Hopkins. The South American country of nearly 50 million inhabitants has reported nearly 51,000 deaths linked to the new coronavirus so far. Bolivia, on the other hand, has reached 200,000 infections, of which 145,000 have been cured, according to the same source. In this country of over 11 million inhabitants, 9,930 died from Covid-19.



Positive the president of Mexico

Mexican president Andrès Manuel Lòpez Obrador has announced that he has contracted Covid-19, showing "mild symptoms" of the disease. Via Twitter, the Mexican head of state added that he had already undergone medical treatment. "as always - he underlined - I am optimistic and we will all go forward". Lòpez Obrador, who is 67 years old and had recently participated in an inauguration ceremony of installations of the National Guard in San Luis Potosì, wanted to specify that for the coming days his daily presidential press conference will be held by the Minister of the Interior, Olga Sànchez Cordero. The Mexican president then announced that despite the situation and the quarantine to which he is subjected, he will continue to follow public affairs from the presidential palace. And he also confirmed the phone call on the agenda tomorrow (today in Italy) with his Russian colleague Vladimir Putin regarding the possibility of receiving a quantity of Sputnik V vaccine. According to the Milenio TV, Lòpez Obrador is part of the vulnerable Mexican population, for his age , because he suffers from hypertension and because in 2013 he was the victim of a heart attack.



United States over 25 million cases

The USA has exceeded 25 million covid infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The victims are over 419 thousand. According to data from the New York Times database yesterday, at least 1,815 new coronavirus deaths and 129,527 additional infections were reported within 24 hours. In the past week there were an average of 170,559 cases per day, a decidedly high number but still down by 33% compared to the average of the previous two weeks.



Australia, corridor suspended with New Zealand

The Australian Minister of Health, Greg Hunt, has announced the suspension for 72 hours of the "corridor" for travel with New Zealand. The Guardian reports it. The decision was made following the detection of the first local coronavirus infection in New Zealand since last November. The fear of the Australian authorities is that it could be a case of the South African variant, a much more contagious mutation of Covid-19. In Australia, there are 28,777 total cases of coronavirus infection since the start of the pandemic, and 909 deaths.



Germany

In the last 24 hours, 6,729 new cases of coronavirus have been recorded in Germany, thus bringing the total infections to 2,141,665. This was announced by the Robert Koch Institute, the agency commissioned by the Berlin government to monitor the progress of the pandemic in the country. On the other hand, the total number of people who died after contracting Covid-19 rose to 52,087, 217 only on the last day.



China

Another 80 confirmed cases of Covid-19 were reported yesterday in mainland China, including 65 locally transmitted infections and 15 from abroad. This was announced by the bulletin of the Chinese National Health Commission. Among the new cases of locally transmitted infection, 29 were reported in Heilongjiang, 19 in Hebei, 12 in Jilin, 3 in Shanghai and 2 in the capital Beijing. No further deaths related to the new coronavirus have been recorded in the past 24 hours. As of January 23, mainland China had recorded a total of 88,991 confirmed cases of contagion, including 1,800 patients still being treated, including 94 in serious condition. Deaths always remain stationary at 4,635.