Tag: Death toll

• Friday, November 20th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Mexico passed the 100,000 coronavirus deaths mark

  

  Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, becoming only the fourth country — behind the United States, Brazil and India — to do so.

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• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina reported on Wednesday over 30,000 deaths from Covid-19

  

  Argentina reported 30,071 deaths from Covid-19 on Wednesday, the Health Ministry confirmed in a statement, while more than 1,130.533 cases have been diagnosed positive since the virus first arrived in the country back in March.

• Tuesday, October 6th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina with the highest rate of positive Covid-19 tests, according to Our World in Data

  

  Argentina has the world's highest rate of positive COVID-19 tests, according to Oxford-linked tracker Our World In Data, with nearly six out of 10 yielding an infection, a reflection of low testing levels and loose enforcement of lockdown rules.

• Monday, September 28th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Coronavirus global death toll passed one million on Saturday

  

  The global death toll from the novel coronavirus, which emerged less than a year ago in China and has swept across the world, passed 1 million on Sunday. The pandemic has ravaged the global economy, inflamed geopolitical tensions, and upended lives, from Indian slums and Brazil's jungles to America's biggest city New York.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Latin America passed 300,000 confirmed deaths of coronavirus and 8 million contagion cases

  

  The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths in Latin America passed 300,000 on Wednesday, according to several independent tallies, with the virus showing no signs of abating in the world's worst-hit region.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil surpasses four million coronavirus cases and almost 125,000 deaths

  

  Brazil surpassed four million coronavirus cases on Thursday, as an international panel looking into the global response to the pandemic vowed to uncover how it was able to spread worldwide.

• Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  In just six months Brazil's Covid-19 death toll has overtaken 120.000

  

  Just over six months after registering its first case of the new coronavirus, Brazil crossed the grim threshold of 120,000 people killed by Covid-19 on Saturday, with no end in sight to the crisis.

• Monday, August 17th 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Half of Brazilians think Bolsonaro has “no responsibility at all” for the 100,000 pandemic's dead

  

  Almost half of Brazilians think President Jair Bolsonaro bears “no responsibility at all” for the country’s more than 100,000 dead from the coronavirus pandemic, the world’s second-highest death toll, according to a new Datafolha poll.

• Friday, August 14th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Peru with half a million coronavirus contagions and the highest death toll in the region

  

  Peru surpassed half a million coronavirus cases and has the highest death toll in Latin America, according to Health Ministry data released on Thursday, as the government struggles to contain a recent surge in infections.

• Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 06:24 UTC

  Britain lowers pandemic death toll with a new counting method

  

  Britain's official death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic was lowered by over 5,000 on Wednesday as the government adopted a new way of counting fatalities after concerns were raised that the old method overstated them.