RIO DE JANEIRO / SANTIAGO (Reuters) – The number of deaths reported through COVID-19 in Latin America exceeded 250,000 on Thursday, as the virus affects the region that has the highest number of affected in the world.
The grim step taken when Brazil reported 1,204 deaths from the new coronavirus in more than 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health.
Over the next week, the region reported more than 3,000 deaths from the day.According to a Reuters count, workloads continue to increase in Peru, Colombia and Argentina.
Brazil is dealing with the world’s largest epidemic, in the United States alone, with the virus killing more than 112,000 people in Latin America’s largest country.
The continent has a population of more than 646 million, according to the World Bank, with 330 million in the United States, which has recorded more than 173,000 deaths from new coronaviruses, according to the Reuters count.
Mexico, which has the third number of deaths in the world, reported 6775 new cases of coronavirus and 625 more deaths on Thursday, bringing the total to 543806 cases and 59106 deaths.
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been harshly criticized by fitness experts for his handling of the crisis, minimized the severity of the virus, rejected the desire to distance himself from society, and suggested corporations reopen.
However, there are small symptoms that the worst may also have gone through the outbreak in Brazil, and the Ministry of Health said Wednesday that the spread of coronavirus would possibly be about to decline.
Neighboring Argentina on Thursday set an 8225 record that showed instances of COVID-19 while trying to curb the spread of the virus after easing blocking restrictions. The country now has a total of 320,884 instances and 6,517 deaths, according to the knowledge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Bless you.
Reporting through Pedro Fonseca and Javier López de Lleida; Written through Stephen Eisenhammer and Anthony Esposito; Editing via Aurora Ellis and Grant McCool
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