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By Lisa Shumaker
August 5 (Reuters) – The international death toll for COVID-19 exceeded 700,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters count, with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico leading the accumulation in the death toll.
Nearly 5,900 other people die every 24 hours of COVID-19 on average, according to reuters estimates based on knowledge for more than two weeks.
This equates to 247 more people per hour, or one user every 15 seconds.
The United States and Latin America are the new epicenters of the pandemic and both are suffering to prevent the onset of the virus.
Coronavirus was first and foremost slower to succeed in Latin America, home to some 640 million people, than the world’s highest. But since then the government has struggled to spread due to poverty in the region and densely populated cities.
More than one hundred million people in Latin America and the Caribbean live in slums, according to the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. Many have jobs in the informal sector with little social safety net and have continued to paint the pandemic.
The United States, which has about 330 million inhabitants, has been hit by the virus as one of the richest countries in the world.
U.S. government infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that states with a large number of coronavirus cases reconsider imposing blockage restrictions, emphasizing a desire to reduce cases to a low baseline before the fall flu season.
Even in regions of the world that gave the impression of slowing the spread of the virus, countries have recently set day records in new cases, indicating that the war is far from over. Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, Bolivia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Belgium, Uzbekistan and Israel have recently recorded record increases in cases.
(Open https://tmsnrt.rs/2WZPuOh in a browser to view an interactive Reuters chart)
(Report through Lisa Shumaker; edited through Jane Wardell)