Bolivia, President Jeanine Anez positive to the virus

UNITED STATES - New record of infections in the United States: over 65 thousand in 24 hours according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In total the cases are 3.11 million, the victims over 133 thousand. In Florida, an 11-year-old girl died of coronavirus: according to CNN, which cites the State Health Department, she is the fourth minor who lost her life in Florida following the virus. The girl, whose identity has not been revealed, lived in Broward County. An 11-year-old boy died in Miami-Dade county last week and a 16-year-old girl in Lee county and a 17-year-old in Pasco county had died before him.

BOLIVIA - Bolivia's interim president, Jeanine Anez, revealed that she tested positive for a Covid-19 test and immediately went into isolation. In a video released through social networks, Anez, who took office on 12 November 2019 after the resignation of Evo Morales, underlined that "with all my collaborators we have worked in favor of the families of the Bolivians for a long period, and since many of them are positive results, I underwent a test that confirmed that I am too ". "Now - he added - I will remain in quarantine for 14 days and then we will see what my conditions will be". Anez is the second head of state infected in Latin America after the Brazilian Jair Bolsonaro.

VENEZUELA - Diosdado Cabello, considered the number two of Chavismo in Venezuela, has confirmed that he has tested positive for the coronavirus test. "Dear comrades, I inform you that after carrying out the corresponding tests, I tested positive at Covid-19," he said on the social network Twitter. Cabello, first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in power and president of the Constituent National Assembly of Chavista, said he was "already in isolation, subjected to the treatment indicated" for the disease. "We will win," he said. President Nicolas Maduro also confirmed that Cabello tested positive for the coronavirus, reporting that "he is already under treatment, is at rest and is doing well" and transmitting "all solidarity and positivity to him, Venezuela is with Diosdado". The president also reported that Omar Prieto, governor of the state of Zulia, also tested positive for Covid-19. Venezuela has so far recorded 8,010 confirmed cases for the pandemic with 75 deaths, according to official data. 

BRAZIL - Brazil has recorded further 1,220 deaths and 42,619 infections in the last 24 hours, the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) and the Ministry of Health have communicated. The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country therefore rose to 1,755,779, while the total number of victims since the start of the pandemic reached 69,184. The lethality rate (i.e. the percentage of deaths compared to the number of sick people) decreased slightly (3.9%), while the mortality rate stood at 32.9 people per 100,000 inhabitants.

MEXICO - Mexico has recorded a new daily record of contagions from Covid-19, with 7,280 new cases in the past 24 hours, according to data from the Ministry of Health. With these, the total number of cases ascertained in Mexico from February 28 to today is 282,283, 33,526 deaths since the first case was registered in the country on February 28. The number of new deaths in the last 24 hours is 730. However, despite the record of cases in a single day, the health authorities note that the general trend is downward for both contagions and deaths, despite the reopening underway since last month.