Here we follow all developments on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 on an international scale.
9:25 am – India with over a thousand deaths and 85 thousand cases
India reported 1,089 dead and 85,362 infected with the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, officials said.
The Ministry of Health has raised the total number of cases in the country to more than 5.9 million, with deaths rising to 93,379 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The average number of new cases in the country dropped by around 7,000 a day this week, after reaching a record 97,894 contagions on September 16.
8h58 – Peru surpasses 32 thousand dead
Peru, the country with the highest mortality rate in the world due to covid-19, surpassed 32 thousand deaths on Friday, an average of 98 deaths per 100 thousand inhabitants, according to official data.
The figures, however, also show that the death rate continues to decline. For the second consecutive day, daily deaths have dropped to less than 100 and death records nationwide are close to returning to normal levels before the pandemic.
The confirmed cases since the beginning of the pandemic are close to reaching 800 thousand, which keeps Peru as the fifth country in the world in number of infected.
In total, there were more than 5,600 new cases in the last 24 hours, which increased the number of infections to 794,584.
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8:37 am – China with 15 imported cases
China this Saturday announced 15 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, all imported, with the country accumulating 41 days without registering local contagions.
8h15 – Mexico with over 405 deaths and 5,401 cases
Mexico recorded 405 deaths and 5,401 infested with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 75,844 and cases to 720,858.
Mexico ranks fourth in the world in number of deaths, behind the United States, Brazil and India, and is seventh in number of cases.
8h12 – Argentina registers 443 deaths and 13 thousand cases in the last 24 hours
Argentina has reported 443 deaths and 12,969 infected with the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, officials announced on Friday.
With this new balance, the country raised the total number of deaths to 15,208 and cases to 691,235, since the beginning of the pandemic.
The latest balance sheet indicated that 546,924 patients were reported to have recovered and that 3,595 people remain in intensive care units.
8:00 am – USA exceeds seven million infected
The United States on Friday surpassed the seven million infected by Covid-19 and the 203,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
Since August 31 alone, the country most affected in the world by the new coronavirus – with 7,027,348 cases since the beginning of the pandemic -, it has registered one million new cases and 20,000 deaths.
On Friday, the official number of covid-19 deaths reached 203,549 across the country.
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