India today set a new world record for confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in 24 hours, exceeding the level of 400,000 for the first time, while for another day, the victims of the pandemic of the new coronavirus exceeded 3,500, according to official data.
According to the figures of the Federal Ministry of Health, 401,993 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed, while the patients with COVID-19 who succumbed reached 3,523 in the previous 24 hours.
India has recorded some 7.7 million infections since the end of February, when the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which has plunged the Asian giant country into an unprecedented health crisis, began to accelerate. It took six months to record the previous 7.7 million cases.
The new coronavirus pandemic has now reached 211,853 dead with a total of more than 19.1 million infections.
Experts estimate that the real toll is even heavier.
Brazil exceeded 82,000 dead in April
Brazil recorded 2,595 deaths from COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total to 82,266 in April, a record for the second consecutive month since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in Latin America’s largest country, according to with the data of the Ministry of Health.
In March, the previous deadliest month of the pandemic, 66,573 deaths were recorded.
In total, the country of 212 million inhabitants mourns so far 403,781 dead. It ranks second in absolute deaths, behind the United States alone (over 575,000 dead).
It has recorded more than 14 million infections with SARS-CoV-2 since it detected the first, in February 2020.
The incidence and death curve stabilizes, but at a high level: the average number of deaths per day is at 2,480 in the last seven days, up from 3,000 in the previous days.
Per capita, Brazil recorded the highest number of deaths per capita in Latin America (192 / 100,000), while now surpassing the United Kingdom (188 / 100,000).
However, it still lags behind Italy (200), Belgium (209) and Hungary (285).
The number of deaths has increased exponentially since the beginning of the year. It took more than five months to reach from 100,000 to 200,000 on January 7, but then just 77 to reach 300,000 (March 24) and 37 to reach 400,000.
Experts point out in particular the strong impact of the P1 variant, which is more contagious and is estimated to cause a more severe form of the disease, which first swept the Amazon before then spreading across the country.
The bed occupancy rate in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) is improving slightly, but remains above 80% in most Brazilian states, according to the latest bulletin from the Fiocruz Institute under the Ministry of Health.
To date, 13% of the population (28.7 million citizens) have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine and 6% (13.3 million) the second.
On Friday, the world-famous Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro was symbolically transformed into a cemetery in protest of the management of the health crisis by far-right President Zaich Bolsonaro. About 400 bags of corpses were lined up on the sand.
“These bags represent Brazilians buried in mass graves,” Antonio Carlos Costa, head of the Brazilian human rights group Rio de Paz, told AFP.
Nearly 217,000 dead in Mexico
The Mexican Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 3,821 cases of SARS-CoV-2 had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, while another 460 patients with COVID-19 had died.
According to official data, the death toll from the pandemic of the new coronavirus in Mexico of 126 million inhabitants so far amounts to 216,907 deaths out of a total of 2,344,755 infections.
But the third heaviest pandemic in the world – behind those of the United States and Brazil – is undoubtedly underestimated. At the end of March, updated government data on over-mortality showed that COVID-19 deaths were at least 60% higher than confirmed.
More than 7,000 cases in Chile
The Chilean Ministry of Health announced yesterday Friday that 7,199 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the laboratory in the previous 24 hours, while another 106 patients with COVID-19 died.
According to official data, the death toll from the pandemic of the new coronavirus in the Latin American country amounts to 26,353 dead so far out of a total of 1,198,245 infections.
The cases had to exceed the level of 7,000 as of April 23.
Chile has been facing a new wave of pandemics since March, although it is at the forefront of international vaccination of its citizens. In April, it reached its peak (≈9,000 per day), which pushed the Santiago government to restrict 80% of the population.
On Thursday, the government announced that the restrictions in 20 communities, including the 10 municipalities in the metropolitan area of ​​Santiago, where the restaurant and shops will be reopened and lockdowns will be applied only on weekends, due to the reduction of infections, will be lifted. The measures will be relaxed in 11 other municipalities from Monday.
In the opposite, six other municipalities will be locked again.
In addition, the measure of closing the border of Chile – in force from April 5 – will be renewed in May.
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