COVID-19: SÍNTESE MUNDIAL

 The covid-19 pandemic has claimed at least 1,685,785 deaths worldwide since the new coronavirus was discovered in late December 2019 in China, the France-Presse agency (AFP) announced today.

According to the AFP daily balance drawn from official sources today at 11am in Angola, more than 76,207,740 cases of contagion have been officially diagnosed since the beginning of the epidemic, of which at least 48,584.100 are now considered cured.

This number of diagnosed cases, however, reflects only a fraction of the actual number of contagions because some countries test only serious cases, others use the tests primarily for screening purposes, and many poor countries have limited testing capacity.

In the last 24 hours, an additional 11,392 deaths and 629,483 new cases were reported worldwide.

Countries with the highest death toll in their latest balance sheets were the United States with the most 2,971 deaths, Brazil (706) and Mexico (627).

The United States is the country most affected in both deaths and cases, with 316,202 deaths in 17,659,271 cases, according to the Johns Hopkins counts. At least 6,298,082 people have been reported cured.

After the United States, the countries most affected are Brazil with 186,356 deaths and 7,213,155 cases, India with 145,477 deaths (10,031,223 cases), Mexico with 117,876 deaths (1,313,675 cases), and Italy with 68,447 killed (1,938,083 cases).

Among the hardest-hit countries, Belgium has the highest number of deaths from its population, with 160 deaths per 100,000, followed by Italy (113), Peru (112), Slovenia (111), and Bosnia (110).

Europe totaled 514,689 deaths in 23,760,572 cases, Latin America and the Caribbean 483,959 deaths (14,609,974 cases), the United States and Canada 330,313 deaths (18,159,017 cases), Asia 210,360 deaths (13,393,621 cases) , Middle East 86,760 deaths (3,760,963 cases), Africa 5,761 deaths (2,492,919 cases), and Oceania 943 deaths (30,682 cases).

This assessment was based on data collected by AFP journalists from relevant national authorities and World Health Organization (WHO) information.

Due to corrections made by the authorities or the late publication of the data, the numbers for increases exceeding 24 hours may not correspond exactly to those published the previous day.