Tag: Death toll

• Monday, July 6th 2020 - 06:42 UTC

  Mexico on Saturday overtook France in coronavirus death toll

  

  Mexico's death toll from the new coronavirus rose to 30,366 on Saturday. The latest figure propelled it past France to become the country with the fifth-highest number of fatalities in the global pandemic, according to the health ministry.

• Thursday, July 2nd 2020 - 11:19 UTC

  Brazil coronavirus death toll climbs to over 60,000: southern states with the worse record

  

  Brazil surpassed 60,000 coronavirus deaths on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health reported, citing a recent wave of contamination in southern and mid-western areas of the country.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 09:56 UTC

  Chile doubles coronavirus death toll to over 7,000 with new tallying method

  

  Chile nearly doubled its reported coronavirus death toll Saturday to more than 7,000 under a new tallying method that includes probable fatalities from COVID-19. The toll thus increased by 3,069, Rafael Araos of the health ministry said as he explained the new government counting methodology.

• Tuesday, June 16th 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  Trying to explain the 42,000 coronavirus deaths in Britain

  

  While the British government insists it has been “guided by science” and has taken “the right decisions at the right time”, the toll of 42,000 coronavirus deaths has fuelled criticism.

• Saturday, June 13th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Brazil overtakes UK and has the second highest coronavirus death toll

  

  Brazil on Friday claimed the unenviable position of having the second-highest coronavirus death toll in the world behind the United States, where several states have posted record daily case totals, signaling the crisis is far from over.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 12:47 UTC

  Brazil resumed publishing the country's total death toll from Covid-19

  

  Brazil's government resumed publishing the country's total death toll from the coronavirus pandemic, after facing accusations of trying to hide the magnitude of its raging health crisis.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Spain: major discrepancies between national and regional Covid-19 death tolls

  

  Spain's overall death toll from the coronavirus edged higher on Thursday, though discrepancies between regional and national data raised questions over the methodology used by the government to produce the tally.

• Thursday, June 4th 2020 - 18:45 UTC

  Brazil's second consecutive record number of Covid-19 daily deaths

  

  Brazil registered a record number of daily deaths from the novel coronavirus for a second consecutive day, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday, even as city and state authorities move aggressively to open commerce back up.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Brazil surpasses 30,000 coronavirus deaths; in Sao Paulo City partial lifting of the lockdown delayed

  

  Brazil surpassed 30,000 deaths from the coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday as the disease continued to rip through South America's worst-hit country. Figures released by the health ministry showed a new record 1,262 deaths in the previous 24 hours, as well as 28,936 new infections.

• Wednesday, June 3rd 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  Virus death toll in UK reaches 48,000, according to National Statistics Office

  

  The number of suspected and confirmed deaths from coronavirus in Britain has risen to 48,000, official data showed on Tuesday. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures tallied all fatalities in which COVID-19 was suspected or mentioned on death certificates up to May 22.