10/11/2020 2:16 PM
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Updated 10/11/2020 1:20 PM
Latin America
exceeded 10 million cases
of coronavirus and Brazil exceeded 150,000 deaths.
The region is the worst affected in the world by the pandemic, which is advancing rapidly in India and Europe, where restrictions increased this weekend.
According to an AFP count made from official sources this Saturday, in Latin America and the Caribbean
there were 10,035,934 infections, 367,358 of which resulted in deaths.
Brazil, which concentrates more than half of the infections in the region, crossed the barrier of 150,000 deaths from covid-19, which is slowly retreating as the population accelerates the return to a risky normalcy.
Behind Brazil (
5,055,888 infections and 150,198 deaths
) are followed in cases by Colombia (894,300; 27,495 deaths), Argentina (871,455; 23,225 deaths) and Peru (843,355; 33,158 deaths).
Peru is the country with the highest mortality rate in the world in proportion to its population,
with 101 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Despite these figures, seven archaeological sites in the Andean region of Cusco will open from October 15 after being closed for seven months, and in November the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, a jewel of Peruvian tourism, will reopen.
In a church in Lima, with social distancing.
Reuters photo
The average number of daily infections in Brazil fell
from 40,659 in July to 30,000 in September and to 27,200 so far in October.
But specialists maintain that the numbers are still high.
"It is as if you went down from the Himalayas to the Alps, that is to say, you continue on a mountain," José David Urbáez, a researcher from the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases, told AFP.
Latin America and the Caribbean will suffer
"the worst economic and health impact"
in the world due to the pandemic and a 7.9% decline in GDP is expected in 2020, the World Bank (WB) warned on Friday.
"The number of deaths per million people (in Latin America)
is as high
as in advanced economies, if not higher, but the resources available to face the coup are much more restricted," the World Bank said in a report.
The rest of the world
Worldwide, the pandemic has caused at least one million deaths and
some 37 million infections
since December, according to AFP figures.
The United States is the country most affected in the world by this pandemic, with
more than 213,000 deaths and 7.6 million infections
.
Every day about 1,000 people die from the virus in that country, according to official figures.
India, with 7.05 million cases, is on the heels of the United States, although it registers fewer deaths, 109,334.
But experts warn that the actual numbers could be much higher.
In the last week,
the situation also worsened notably in Europe,
which registered a 28% increase in the number of infections.
In total, the continent already exceeds 6.2 million cases and 240,000 deaths.
The virus is primed in countries such as Spain, where the government decreed a
state of alarm in Madrid
to curb infections, after days of deep disagreements between the central government, on the left, and the regional executive, with a conservative mood.
For at least 14 days, the 4.5 million inhabitants of Madrid and some neighboring municipalities will have to
respect a partial confinement
.
That is, they can go for a walk, buy in the supermarket or eat in a restaurant, but within the delimited area, from which they can leave to go to work or to the doctor.
A couple walks through the streets of Madrid.
AP Photo
In Germany, Berlin has been registering more than 50 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants for days,
making it a "risk zone"
.
By way of comparison, Madrid currently exceeds 560 infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
To stop the spread of the pandemic, Berlin and other large cities, such as Frankfurt and Cologne, adopted nighttime restrictions, which includes from this weekend the closure of bars and restaurants from 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. until 6 a.m.
But the voices dissonant to the measures do not stop.
In Italy, the first outbreak of the virus in Europe that has already exceeded 36,000 deaths and is
close to 350,000 cases,
hundreds of people, including neo-fascists, anti-vaccines and plotters, participated in two demonstrations on Saturday in Rome against the mandatory use of masks.
Faced with the rise in infections, the Italian government imposed the use of outdoor masks as mandatory and extended the state of emergency until January 31.
In order to avoid the breach of restrictions,
in Iran it was decided to fine
the inhabitants of Tehran who do not respect especially the use of a mask.
In this bleak global outlook, one question remains unanswered:
Is President Donald Trump cured
after announcing on October 2 that he was positive for coronavirus?
This Saturday, the president appeared without a mask before hundreds of supporters from the balcony of the White House, in his first public event since he announced his infection.
In an attempt to relaunch his campaign and cut the disadvantage that the polls give him against the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, three weeks before the presidential elections, the president said: "I feel great."
Later his doctor, Sean Conley, said that Trump "is no longer considered at risk of transmitting" the virus to others, although he did not claim that he is free of covid-19.
Source: AFP
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