In April, new cases never reached 100,000 in one day, but since May 21, there were only less than 100,000 in five days, according to data from
Johns Hopkins University. New cases were reported as high as 130,400 on June 3.
Epidemics of different countries have followed different trajectories. amount
new case has slowed in many countries affected by previous pandemics, including China, the US, Britain, Italy, Spain and France.
But in many countries, especially in South America, the Middle East and Africa, transmission rates are still looking faster, according to CNN.
analysis Johns Hopkins University data.
In Libya, Iraq, Uganda, Mozambique and Haiti, data shows the number of known cases is doubling every week. In Brazil, India, Chile, Colombia and South Africa, cases double every two weeks.
“The Americas continues to be responsible for the majority of cases. For several weeks, the number of cases reported every day in America is more than the total world,” said Director General of the World Health Organization Tedhan Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Wednesday.
“We are very worried about Central and South America, where many countries are witnessing an increasingly rapid epidemic.”
Mike Ryan, WHO’s executive director for the Emergency Health Program, said he did not think Central and South America had reached them
the peak in transmission.
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global death also still increasing in South America and the Caribbean.
Brazil recorded more than 30,000 new cases on Thursday, bringing the total to nearly 615,000, along with 1,473 new deaths, bringing the total to more than 34,000.
The number of cases is second only to the US, where just under 1.9 million cases have been reported and 108,211 deaths. At its peak, the US saw more than an increase
30,000 new cases one day; on Friday it registered around 21,000 news cases and 942 deaths every day per day above an average of seven days.
A number of countries that passed their initial peak – such as South Korea, Germany and China – have been seen
new cluster infection after restriction of movement subsides, raising concerns a
second wave.
Authorities in 214 countries and territories have reported around 6.6 million Covid-19 cases and 391,000 deaths since China reported its first case to WHO in December.
Possible actually due to the virus
worse than the numbers indicated, mild or asymptomatic infections are often undiagnosed.
