Tag: Death toll

• Monday, June 1st 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Brazil becomes the country with Covid-19 fourth highest deaths toll: 29,314

  

  Brazil reported a record 33,274 new cases of the new coronavirus this weekend, the health ministry said, and the death toll surpassed that of France and now ranks below only the United States, Britain, and Italy.

• Saturday, May 30th 2020 - 08:48 UTC

  Brazil surpasses Spain and becomes fifth highest in number of virus fatalities

  

  Brazil on Friday reached 27,878 coronavirus deaths, official figures showed, surpassing the toll of hard-hit Spain and making it the country with the fifth-highest number of fatalities. The epicenter of the South American coronavirus outbreak, Brazil saw 1,124 deaths in 24 hours, the Ministry of Health said.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:34 UTC

  Brazil's coronavirus death toll surpassed 25,000 as the pandemic accelerates

  

  Brazil's death toll from the new coronavirus surpassed 25,000 on Wednesday, as the country emerged as the latest epicenter in the pandemic. The health ministry said it had confirmed 1,086 new deaths in the past 24 hours, the fifth time the daily toll has exceeded 1,000 since the crisis accelerated in Brazil a week ago.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 08:10 UTC

  US surpasses the milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths

  

  Unthinkable just four months ago, the United States on Wednesday surpassed the grim milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths, as the pandemic tightened its grip on Latin America.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:17 UTC

  Desperate Ecuadoreans look for their loved ones in shipping containers filled with decomposing corpses

  

  Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest coastal city has been ravaged by coronavirus with bodies buried in mass graves or kept in newly-filled shipping containers to help relatives identify their loved ones among the decomposing corpses.

• Wednesday, May 27th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Britain's deaths 'involving' Covid-19 rose to 46,000, not 37,000

  

  Britain's number of deaths “involving” COVID-19 has risen to 46,000, substantially higher than the 36,914 fatalities officially reported so far, according to a statistical update released on Tuesday.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 07:35 UTC

  Globally Covid-19 cases exceed 5 million and 330,000 deaths, WHO report

  

  Globally, confirmed cases of coronavirus on Thursday exceeded 5 million, while in the last 24 hours there was a world record of infections in one day, 106,000, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the database from Johns Hopkins University.

• Thursday, May 21st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Peru and the virus: crematoriums working on 24/7 shifts and queues of funeral cars outside hospitals

  

  Peru has become the second Latin American country after Brazil to reach 100,000 coronavirus cases, according to Health Ministry figures out on Wednesday. The number of dead from Covid-19 has also passed 3,000, with only Brazil and Mexico have suffered more. Both cases and deaths have tripled since April 30.

• Friday, May 15th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Chile digging thousands of fresh graves amid a spike in Covid-19 cases

  

  Thousands of fresh graves are being dug in Santiago's main cemetery amid a spike in Chile's COVID-19 cases, authorities said on Thursday. Chile's infection rate soared this week, prompting the government to declare a mandatory lockdown of Santiago's seven million people from Friday.

• Monday, May 11th 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Pandemic: Brazil reports over 11,000 deaths on Sunday and 162,699 positive cases

  

  Brazil, the hardest-hit Latin American country in the coronavirus pandemic, has surpassed 11,000 deaths, according to figures released on Sunday by the Ministry of Health.