The world, confronted since last December with the Covid-19 pandemic, crossed Sunday two symbolic thresholds, with more than half a million deaths and ten million cases of infection announced.
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According to an AFP count from official sources, 500,390 deaths and 10,099,576 cases were officially recorded Sunday at 10 p.m. GMT.
The number of deaths worldwide has doubled in just under two months (250,000 on May 5) and an additional 50,000 have been recorded in the past 10 days.
The number of cases reported worldwide has doubled since May 21 and more than a million new cases of Covid-19 have been detected in the last six days.
Europe is the continent with the most deaths (196,086 for 2,642,897 cases), followed by the United States / Canada zone (134,315, 2,642,754), Latin America and the Caribbean (111,640 , 2 473 164), Asia (33 107, 1 219 230), the Middle East (15 505, 730 977), Africa (9604, 381 396) and Oceania (133, 9158).
The United States is the country most affected, both in number of deaths (125,747) and cases (2,539,544). Although the number of daily deaths decreased slightly in June compared to the previous month, the contagion is increasing in 30 of the 50 American states, especially in the largest and most populated in the South and West: California, Texas and Florida.
Current projections from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) predict that the country could have 150,000 deaths in mid-August.
The new coronavirus first hit China and part of the rest of Asia hard, then hit Europe hard from March, and then quickly spread to the United States. But the epicenter of the pandemic is now located in Latin America and especially in Brazil, where since the end of May daily reports regularly exceed 1,000 deaths recorded in 24 hours.
In the past 7 days, almost half of all new deaths worldwide have been in the region. The continent also counted more than 400,000 new cases of contamination over the same period, or more than a third of the infections recorded in a week worldwide (more than 1.1 million).
After the United States, the most affected countries are Brazil with 57,622 deaths for 1,344,143 cases, the United Kingdom with 43,550 deaths (311,151 cases), Italy with 34,738 deaths (240,310 cases) , and France with 29,778 deaths (199,343 cases).
Among the most affected countries, Belgium has the most deaths reported to its population, with 84 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, ahead of the United Kingdom (64), Spain (61), Italy (57) and Sweden (52).
All of these reports, however, only reflect a fraction of the actual number of contaminations. The American Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) estimate the order of 10 times the number of Americans having been infected, that is to say more than 20 million people, which represents between 5 and 8% of population.
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