Another 1,987 patients with COVID-19 succumbed to Brazil in the past 24 hours, with the Ministry of Health announcing that another 43,515 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed.
The coronavirus pandemic in Latin America, the largest country in the world, has reached the stage of 330,193 deaths out of a total of 12,953,597 infections, according to official data, which many scientists consider underestimated.
Brazil, which is now experiencing the worst phase of the pandemic, has recently recorded the highest number of deaths due to COVID-19 worldwide on a daily basis.
Mexico exceeded 204,000 deaths
His Ministry of Health Mexico announced that in the previous 24 hours 1,838 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed, while another 157 patients with COVID-19 succumbed.
According to official data, the death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic has now reached 204,011 dead out of a total of 2,249,195 infections in the country of 126 million inhabitants.
But the third heaviest record in the world is undoubtedly underestimated. Last Sunday, the Mexican Ministry of Health released the latest data on overpopulation in the country, in which deaths due to COVID-19 are at least 60% more than officially announced, which means that in fact already exceed 300,000.
Canada broke the barrier of one million in cases
In Canada exceeded one million SARS-CoV-2 cases, Canadian television networks reported as the North American country faced a third wave of the new coronavirus pandemic, which forced governments in many countries to impose stricter restrictive measures in recent days. .
With just over 2,000 cases reported in British Columbia (west) on Saturday night, Canada has just surpassed that limit since the outbreak of the pandemic. More than 23,000 patients have succumbed to COVID-19 by this stage.
The third wave is mainly attributed to the mutated strains of the new coronavirus, which are characterized as much more infectious.
To slow the spread of the virus in Ontario, the province most affected by the pandemic – which has so far recorded more than a third of cases – has stepped up restrictive measures for four weeks since Saturday.
The schools remain open and the residents of the province have not been instructed to stay home, but the shops that are not considered absolutely necessary to continue their operation will receive 25% of their regular customers. Gyms and hairdressers were ordered to close.
Quebec, the province hit hardest by the pandemic, has imposed a curfew in several areas while maintaining a night-time curfew unprecedented in Canada on a provincial scale since the outbreak of the Spanish epidemic. more than a century ago.
The third wave is hitting the country while the vaccination campaign is finding it difficult to take off. Canada became one of the first countries in the world to launch mass immunizations in December, but the campaign slowed in early 2021 due to delays in the delivery of vaccine doses of Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna, imported from Europe. Authorities also recently limited the scope of use of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is now available only to those over 55 years of age.
As of yesterday, 14.6% of the Canadian population had received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the COVID-19 Tracker Canada website.
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