KOMPAS.com – Corona virus SARS-CoV-2 causes disease Covid-19 has been more than a year designated as a global pandemic.
Launch Worldometers, Saturday (13/3/2021) at 06.00 WIB, the case was confirmed positive Covid-19 in the world as many as 119,568,959 cases.
Of these, 96,182,394 cases have been declared cured and the virus has killed 2,650,176 people worldwide.
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Countries with the most cases of Covid-19
The United States is still ranked first in the country with the most Covid-19 cases in the world with 29,986,499 cases. A total of 22,022,238 people were declared recovered.
Meanwhile, 545,259 people were reported dead.
2. Brazil
There were 79,111 new cases of Covid-19 in the past day in Brazil, bringing the total infection cases in the country to 11,363,380 cases.
Of this number, 9,958,566 people have been declared recovered, while the death toll is 275,105 people.
3. India
India is in third place, reporting 11,333,484 cases of Covid-19 infection.
Of these, 10,971,329 cases have been declared recovered, and the death toll is 158,483 people.
4. Russia
Russia is in fourth position, with 4,370,617 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
It was recorded, as many as 3,973,029 people have recovered. Meanwhile, as many as 91,220 people were reported to have died from the Covid-19 disease.
5. England
The UK has reported 4,248,286 positive cases of infection corona virus SARS-CoV-2.
Of that number, 3,424,092 people have recovered, and as many as 125,343 people have died from Covid-19.
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Brazil experienced a second wave
Brazil is facing a second wave of Covid-19, with the number of daily deaths reported continuing to be high.
A new variant of the virus corona continues to spread across the country, at a time when many in the country continue to oppose the use of masks and restrictions on mobility.
“We are going through the worst case scenario since the start of the pandemic. You just have to look at trends in the average number of deaths, “said Gonzalo Vecina Neto, a professor of Public Health at the University of Sao Paulo. CNN International (13/3/2021).
On Wednesday (10/3/2021), Brazil’s Ministry of Health recorded a new high, reporting 2,286 victims who died from viral infections.
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Italy could return to lockdown
Quoted from The Guardian (13/3/2021), the Italian government has approved a regulation allowing half of the country, including Lazio, the region surrounding Rome, to enter the number of lockdowns from Monday due to surging coronavirus infections.
Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s Cabinet has given the green light on a decision that would categorize areas in a high-risk “red zone” if they had more than 250 weekly cases per 100,000 population.
Italy recorded 25,673 new infections on Thursday and 373 deaths from Covid-19, bringing the total number of deaths to 101,184.
Regions facing a total lockdown starting Monday include Lombardy, Lazio, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia-Giulia, Veneto, Piedmont, Marche and Trento province.
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European Medicines Agency (EMA) or the European Medicines Agency is investigating whether one of the three vaccine The previously approved Covid-19 may be linked to a case of blood clots.
“It is not clear whether there is a causal relationship between vaccination and reports of immune thrombocytopenia,” said EMA.
The agency said it would assess reports on the condition of people who had received the Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines.
Previous reports emerged that recipients of the AstraZeneca vaccine inoculation were suffering from blood clots.
The EMA said there was no indication that the incident was due to vaccination, as the WHO also stated.
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