World record of deaths from Covid-19 in a single day – 12/31/2020 – Balance and health



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The world registered a new record of daily deaths from Covid-19, with 15,518 deaths, according to the follow-up carried out by the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States.

The milestone was reached on December 29 and may have been obtained after processing data that was withheld in government systems due to Christmas.

Until then, according to the American university itself, the highest number of deaths had been registered on the 22nd of this month when 14,468 deaths were recorded in a 24-hour interval.

Deaths from Covid-19 already represent 1,807,638 records worldwide. The countries with the most deaths are the United States (342,000), Brazil (193,000), India (148,000), Mexico (124,000) and Italy (73,000), according to a Johns Hopkins survey.

In addition to the 22nd, December had already recorded a previous peak of new daily deaths on the 15th, with 13,963 deaths. The increase in the death rate due to the disease caused by the new coronavirus is a consequence of the second wave of the pandemic, which hits the nations whose populations do not respect known sanitary regulations, such as the use of masks and distance. Social.

In Brazil, for example, which is close to 200 thousand deaths from Covid-19, the arrival of summer has been the pretext for many people to ignore current sanitary regulations and gather on beaches and clandestine parties.

Report leaf showed that the north coast of São Paulo, for example, is crowded with tourists waiting for New Year’s Eve, even with the decree of the red phase to face the pandemic, which only allows the operation of essential services, throughout the state from the 1st .

This Wednesday (30), Brazil registered 1,224 deaths and 55,853 cases of the disease. In total, the country has accumulated 193,940 deaths and 7,619,970 people infected by the new coronavirus, according to updated data from the press consortium.

Worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins, there are 82 million cases of the new coronavirus. The countries with the most cases are the United States (19 million), India (10 million), Brazil (7.6 million), Russia (3.1 million) and France (2.6 million).

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