Coronavirus. Over 128 million cases and 2.8 million deaths since the start of the pandemic

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• Coronavirus: over 470 thousand cases worldwide, 550 thousand deaths in the US

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March 31, 2021 There are over 128.1 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the

since the beginning of the pandemic.

This was reported by the updated database of Johns Hopkins University, according to which the most affected country, with almost 30.4 million infections, is the United States, followed by Brazil, India and France.

The victims, on the other hand, are just over 2.8 million and also in this case the United States is the country that has registered the most (551 thousand), distancing Brazil, Mexico and India.

The

recorded 84,494 new cases and 3,780 deaths from the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, setting a new daily record of deaths.

The data are from the Ministry of Health.

From the first infection, recorded on February 26, 2020, and from the first death, on March 12 of last year, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 12,658,109 confirmed cases and a total of 317,646 deaths.

New rise of coronavirus infections in

, in the major urban centers but also in the rural areas of the archipelago, one week after the end of the state of emergency.

Osaka prefecture, west of the capital, reported over 400 cases daily on Tuesday, the highest level in over a month, for many of which there is no traceability.

The same goes for Tokyo, with the metropolitan government which registered 364 positivity, up for the eleventh consecutive day.

Since the start of the pandemic, Japan has recorded 472,325 coronavirus infections, with 9,120 confirmed deaths.