In the region, which is the worst-affected region of the new coronavirus in the world, there were 8,035,484 cases of infection by Thursday evening. The number of people infected worldwide has risen to 28.02 million.
In second place with 6,504,734 infections is the region, which consists of two countries – the United States and Canada.
Latin America and the Caribbean also ranks first in the world in terms of Covid-19 deaths.
A few days ago, the number of these deaths in the region exceeded 300,000, accounting for a third of the more than 900,000 deaths worldwide.
With 220,085 deaths, Europe is second in the world.
The Latin American country hardest hit by the new coronavirus is Brazil, with 4.23 million infections and 129,522 deaths. In Latin America, Peru ranks second with 702,776 infections and Mexico with 69,095 deaths.
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