Since it emerged in China in December, the coronavirus has claimed 498,779 lives and the official number of accumulated contagions has amounted to at least 10,003,942, according to an AFP agency count from official sources.
The rate of spread of the pandemic continues to be rapid, with one million new cases reported in just six days.
The United States, the country hardest hit by the Covid-19, has 125,480 deaths and more than 2.5 million cases. Contagions are increasing in 30 of its 50 states, particularly in the largest and most populous in the south and west, such as California, Texas and Florida.
The average age of infected people is now 33, compared to 65 two months ago.
Florida is facing a “real explosion” of the disease among young people who, thanks to lack of confidence since early June, returned to the beaches and nightlife, Governor Ron DeSantis acknowledged this week.
Brazil, the second country most mourned by the coronavirus, returned on Saturday to announce the highest daily number of deaths in the world, and already totals more than 57,000 deaths and 1.3 million cases.
The South American giant reported a agreement to produce up to 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by the British University of Oxford.
Peru, second country in Latin America in cases behind Brazil and third in total deaths, after Mexico, exceeded 9,000 deceased on Saturday.
On Tuesday, the country will end a quarantine national for more than 100 days, but will maintain border closures and mandatory confinement in the seven regions most affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
The quarantine will end in the capital, Lima, a city of 10 million inhabitants where the coronavirus is “descending”, according to the government, despite accumulate 70% of the country’s cases.
In Mexico, inhabitants of a community of ChiapasIn the southeast, they destroyed a community hospital and burned two police cars and other vehicles, in addition to attacking the residences of local authorities, for false rumors about the expansion of the coronavirus.
