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July 16, 2021 According to the latest Johns Hopkins University tally, there are 188,886,274 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the world, 530,423 more than the previous day. 4,066,019 deaths, of which 7,907 registered in the last 24 hours.



Total cases 

With 33,975,642 total cases, the US is confirmed as the country that has reported the highest number of infections. Followed by India (30,987,880), Brazil (19,262,518), France (5,895,453), Russia (5,810,335), Turkey (5,507,455) and the United Kingdom (5,301,296). Over 4 million infections Argentina (4,719,952), Colombia (4,583,442), Italy (4,278,319) and Spain (4,069,162).



New cases

With 56,757 new cases in 24 hours, Indonesia is the country that reports the most consistent rise in infections. Followed by Brazil (+52.789), United Kingdom (+48.641), India (+38.949), United States (+28.412), Spain (+27.688), Russia (+24.793), Iran (+23.655), Argentina (+17.295) , South Africa (+16.435).



Indonesia

The number of deaths from Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic has exceeded 70,000 in Indonesia, and over 56,000 infections in 24 hours. The archipelago state of Southeast Asia with 270 million inhabitants has so far recorded over 2.7 million cases of contagion. The vaccine doses administered were 54.5 million.



Indonesia is currently reporting more cases per day than India becoming the new epicenter of the pandemic in Asia. If the disease continues to spread with such violence, the local health system could collapse in a short time. According to several observers, the situation may be worse than shown by the numbers, due to the scarcity of checks carried out. A study released on Saturday found that nearly half of Jakarta's 10.6 million residents may have contracted Covid-19.



Health authorities are concerned that hospitals may not be able to cope with the growing number of patients requiring hospitalization, especially as the Delta variant spreads like wildfire. Another 991 victims were also reported on Wednesday bringing the total death toll from Covid to 69,210. The numbers are a good picture of the drama of the situation: as many as 90,000 of the 120,000 beds in Indonesian hospitals are now occupied. Oxygen prices rose in late June and some hospitals appear to be running out of cylinders. The densely populated islands of Bali and Java were subjected to an emergency lockdown last week, but it is being adhered to very loosely. In this situation, he is vaccinated as soon as 5,5% of the population.



India

The toll of Covid-19 infections in India since the onset of the disease has risen today to more than 31 million (31,026,829) after 38,949 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health bulletin. In the same time span another 542 people died bringing the death toll from the virus to 412,531. Although, as can be seen, the progression of the epidemic in the subcontinent remains at levels decidedly lower than those recorded in the very serious second wave, experts say they are certain of the inevitability of the outbreak of a further upsurge already in August. In any case, this third wave will not be as deadly as the second, said one of the most authoritative Indian virologists, Professor Samiran Panda, head of theepidemiology and infectious diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research.



Brazil

With 1,548 deaths confirmed yesterday, Brazil has reached 538,942 victims since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, as can be seen from the latest bulletin released by the federal health authorities. The Ministry of Health of Brasilia also announces that 52,789 new cases were diagnosed in one day, which raises the total from the appearance of the virus to 19,262,518. It is noted that yesterday's numbers are lower than those of the same day last week when 1,639 deaths and 53,725 infections were detected. The mortality rate remains stable at 2.8% and is equal to 256.5 deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants. The State of Sao Paulo continues to lead both in the ranking of infections and in that of lethality, with 3,908,279 cases and 133,901 victims of the coronavirus.The lethality rate is above the national average, at 3.4%, but below that recorded in Rio de Janeiro (5.8%), which has the highest in Brazil.



Los Angeles Los Angeles

County is preparing to reintroduce the obligation to wear a mask in indoor places, even for people vaccinated against Covid. The decision was made due to the rapid and substantial increase in new coronavirus cases, at a rate of over a thousand per day in the past week.