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For the third day in a row, Brazil registers more than a thousand deaths from Covid

Brazil registered more than a thousand deaths by Covid for the third consecutive day, according to figures from the Universidad Johns Hopkins.

One year after the South American country detected its first case of coronavirus, adds 252 thousand 835 deaths caused by the disease, which makes it the second country with the most deaths, only below U.S, which reports 511,335 deaths.

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The Brazilian Ministry of Health alerted a new wave of infections, after that on Wednesday they recorded 1,386 deaths; on Thursday, 1,541 and on Friday, 1,337.

Since the pandemic burst into Brazil, the country had not had three consecutive days with more than a thousand deaths per day.

Half the country faces strong measures of lockdown this Saturday, after several states applied new measures to restrict mobility and prevent a collapse of the health system due to the strong advance of the pandemic that does not give truce in the South American giant.

Curfews at night and during the early morning and the total closure of commercial establishments, except those that provide essential services, began to be applied strongly this weekend in 13 of the 27 states of the country.

The Covid-19 cases in the world reached this Saturday the figure of 113 million 633 thousand 539 infections and deaths from the virus reached 2 million 521 thousand 446, according to the count of Johns Hopkins.

U.S it remains the country most affected by the pandemic, with at least 28 million 525 thousand 254 confirmed cases and 511 thousand 335 deaths.

Mexico accumulates 2 million 76 thousand 882 cases of Covid-19 and 187 thousand 474 deaths, which makes it the thirteenth country with the most infections in the world and the third with the most deaths from the virus.

With information from EFE

Real-time coronavirus map

The University Johns Hopkins of Baltimore, United States, developed a map that allows monitoring cases of coronavirus worldwide in real time.

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In order to provide a better understanding of the status of the epidemic, the site shows the regions in which it spread and the number of confirmed cases. It also points out how many deaths the coronavirus has caused, and how many have managed to recover from Covid-19.

The tool collects data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, and the Chinese website DXY, among other sources.

The map is not just a resource for the public; on the contrary, the professor at the University Johns Hopkins, Lauren Gardner assured that this tool could be used in the future to study this virus.

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