The United States has reached 33,472,371 confirmed cases of Covid, and 599,961 deaths, according to the independent tally of Johns Hopkins University. The balance of the last 24 hours is 193 deaths and 10,799 new infections. California is now the most affected state by the pandemic with 63,193 deaths, followed by New York (53,558), Texas (51,940).
The alarm is raised in Colombia
For the third day in a row, the death record was broken with 588 victims in 24 hours, two more than yesterday, bringing the number of pandemic deaths in the country to 96,366. During the day, 24,376 new infections were also reported for a total of 3,777,600 cases, of which 158,928 active, or 4.2% of the total. Health Minister Fernando Ruiz blamed the situation in Colombia today, with a third elongated peak that began last April, to massive anti-government demonstrations that began at the very end of the fourth month of the year, although for the most part they are already ceased.
In the America’s Cup 41 positives
Forty-one people tested positive for coronavirus among all delegations participating in the America’s Cup, the Ministry of Health of Brazil, the host country of the competition, informed. On Sunday, the date of the inaugural match in Brasilia, “41 cases of Covid-19 were reported, including 31 among players and delegation members, and ten among service providers hired for the event,” the ministry said in a statement. , without giving details. Despite the absence of the public, the competition in Brazil after the withdrawals of Colombia and then Argentina has aroused strong criticism, given the health situation of the country: the South American giant has accumulated almost half a million deaths from coronavirus
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