16/02/2023

The US has seen more than 52,000 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed, a new one-day record as infections surge around the country.

The US has seen more than 52,000 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a tally by Johns Hopkins University showed, a new one-day record as infections surge around the country.
The Baltimore-based university’s tracker showed 52,898 more, bringing the total number of cases since the pandemic reached the US to 2,682,270.
The university also recorded a further 706 fatalities, bringing the total death toll to 128,028.
New daily case numbers have hovered around 40,000 in recent days, with Johns Hopkins recording 42,528 new infections one day earlier.
Meanwhile, Brazil topped 60,000 deaths from the coronavirus after recording more than 1,000 fatalities over the last 24 hours, the health ministry said.
The South American country has suffered the largest number of daily deaths globally for the last week, and is the second worst affected nation in the world for both cases and fatalities after the US.
Brazil is showing no signs of reducing either its number of daily cases or deaths.
With more than 46,000 new cases, the country of 212 million now has 1.44m people infected, although analysts believe the true figure is much higher.
The largest number of deaths have been in the most populous state, Sao Paulo, with 14,700, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with more than 10,000.
Rio’s death rate of 584 per million inhabitants is more than twice the national average of 284.
The northeastern state Ceara has been even worse hit with 673 deaths per million, putting it on a par with the hardest hit countries in the world.