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The world registered on Tuesday (27) a record of more than 500 thousand new cases of coronavirus, according to a balance by the AFP agency based on the figures released by the health authorities.
In total, 516,898 new infections and 7,723 deaths were reported in 24 hours. According to experts, this increase in the number of cases in the world cannot be explained only by the greater number of tests carried out since the first global wave of the epidemic, between March and April.
More than half of the cases registered in 24 hours are located in the ten most affected countries, according to the AFP survey: United States, India, Brazil, Russia, France, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, United Kingdom and Mexico.
The United States is also experiencing an increase in the number of detected cases. For the first time, it registered more than 500,000 infected in a week, while last week it was 370,000.
The United States has the highest moving average of new Covid cases since the start of the pandemic
Europe is the continent where the pandemic is advancing the fastest, with a daily average of more than 220,000 new cases in the last seven days, an increase of 44% compared to the previous week, according to AFP. The region approaches 2,000 deaths per day. During the worst moment of the pandemic, in April, more than 4 thousand deaths were registered daily.
People wearing masks on the streets of Rome during the coronavirus pandemic in Italy – Photo: REUTERS / Guglielmo Mangiapane
The Czech Republic has the highest infection rate in Europe. While the world has seen an average increase of around 7% in cases over the past two weeks, according to WHO data, that rate in the Eastern European country is around 40%.
Several European countries are increasing restrictions to control this second wave.
October is not over yet, but it is already the worst moment of the pandemic in terms of virus transmission, as the world broke the record for new daily Covid-19 cases 9 times this month alone, according to World Organization data Of the health. (WHO). On days 22, 23 and 24, daily records were broken consecutively, with the highest daily number since the start of the pandemic: 468,409 new infections.
Another survey, that of Johns Hopkins University, in the United States, shows that the world reached 44 million cases of the new coronavirus this Wednesday (28). The number of deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic across the planet exceeds 1.1 million.
In just ten days since the confirmation of the 40 million infected, more than four million people have contracted Covid-19. The increase in this balance is driven by the United States, which in seven days had more than 500 thousand cases.
