The “Indian” variant of the coronavirus was detected for the first time in Belgium among a group of students who arrived this month from India via the Parisian airport of Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle, has t – we learned on Thursday from an official source in Brussels.
A total of 20 Indian students tested positive for the new variant and placed in quarantine in the Flemish cities of Aalst (11) and Leuven (9), where they had arrived in mid-April for nursing training. India has recorded nearly 315,000 new cases of Covid-19 over 24 hours, a daily toll that no country in the world had previously recorded, while the situation is tense in New Delhi hospitals facing a oxygen shortage.
2,500 deaths per day in Brazil
Brazil, for a week, has entered a very high plateau at around 2,500 daily deaths from Covid-19, after several months of dizzying increases in death and contamination curves. “The curves have apparently stabilized, but at a very worrying level, with a still extremely high number of deaths,” Mauro Sanchez, epidemiologist at the University of Brasilia, told Agence France-Presse. In Colombia, the threshold of 70,000 deaths from Covid-19, including 430 in 24 hours, was crossed on Thursday, a new record, as this country is facing a third wave of contagion which threatens to overwhelm its hospitals.
The pandemic has killed at least 3,060,859 people worldwide since December 2019, according to a report established by Agence France-Presse from official sources on Thursday. The United States is the country with the highest death toll (570,147), followed by Brazil (383,502), Mexico (213,597), India (184,657) and the United Kingdom (127 327). These figures are globally underestimated. They are based on daily reports from national health authorities, without including reassessments based on statistical bases.
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