Spain and Portugal on the US blacklist
The United States has again included Spain and Portugal in the list of countries they recommend not to travel to due to the worsening of the covid-19 pandemic. This was announced by the State Department in a statement pointing out that Cyprus and Kyrgyzstan have also been added to this category. Travel alerts were issued based on recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which put Spain at “level 4” due to the pandemic.
Brazil, about 20 million cases and over half a million deaths since the beginning of the pandemic
Brazil has recorded 18,999 new cases and 578 deaths associated with covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total death toll to more than 550,000, according to the National Council of Health Secretariats (Conass). From the first infection, on February 26, 2020, and the first death, on March 12 of the same year, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 19,707,662 confirmed cases and 550,502 deaths. However, the weekend and Monday epidemiological bulletins tend to show lower figures than on other days due to lack of counts in some municipalities due to a shortage of administrative staff. (