The Brazilian Ministry of Health informed yesterday Thursday that 1,548 patients with COVID-19 died in the previous 24 hours and 52,789 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed.
The official death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic in Latin America has reached 538,942 deaths out of a total of 19,262,518 infections.
Brazil, with a population of 212 million, has the second heaviest population in the world, behind only the United States.
Mexico: 233 deaths and almost 13,000 cases in 24 hours
The Mexican Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that another 233 patients with COVID-19 had died in the past 24 hours and another 12,821 cases of SARS-CoV-2 had been confirmed, as the country was facing a third wave.
According to the ministry, the death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic has reached this stage at 235,740 deaths out of a total of 2,629,648 infections.
The Mexican government acknowledges, however, that the official report, the 4th heaviest in the world, is highly undervalued. Excessive mortality figures released by the Ministry of Health recently showed, for the second time this year, that deaths due to COVID-19 are in fact almost 60% more than confirmed.
Thailand: Another record with 9,692 cases in 24 hours
Thai health authorities announced on Friday a negative daily record number of new coronavirus cases, with 9,692 infections confirmed in the last 24 hours as the country struggles to contain the new wave of the new coronavirus pandemic.
In the last 24 hours, 67 new deaths of patients with Covid-19 were also recorded.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the death toll in the country has reached 3,099 dead so far, while the total number of cases is 381,907.
South Korea: The Prime Minister does not rule out additional measures to restrict rallies
South Korean Prime Minister Kim Bo-kyoum today left open the possibility of imposing additional restrictions on private gatherings across the country, as authorities announced 1,536 new infections with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
South Korea, for months an example of successful Covid-19 pandemic management as it kept the number of cases under control, with tests, tracking and social isolation measures, is now facing a new wave of cases powered by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus.
Prime Minister Kim Bo-kyum has called on local governments to harmonize the number of people who can gather into less than four to avoid confusion in the non-metropolitan area, where cases are rising rapidly following the imposition of a semi-lockdown in the greater Seoul area.
“If the number of confirmed cases continues to rise, I stress that there is no choice but to further reduce the number of rallies after 6 pm outside the metropolitan area,” Kim Bu-kyum told a government meeting today. on television.
The total infections in the country of 52 million people now amount to 175,046 and 2,051 people have succumbed to Covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Germany: 18 deaths and 1,456 cases in the past 24 hours
The confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany increased by 1,456 in the previous 24 hours, reaching 3,741,781, according to data released today Friday by the Robert Koch Institute, the country’s epidemiological surveillance body.
The deaths of 18 patients with Covid-19 during the same period increased the death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic to 91,337 deaths so far, according to the same source.
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