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The new coronavirus pandemic has caused at least 1,675,362 dead in the world since the WHO office in China reported the appearance of the disease in December 2019, according to a balance established from official sources.
Since the beginning of the epidemic more than 75,611,670 people contracted the disease. Of these, at least 48,148,100 were recovered, according to authorities.
This number of positive cases only reflects a part of all infections due to the disparate policies of different countries to diagnose, since some only do so with those people who need hospitalization and en many poor countries the testing capacity is limited.
On Friday, 12,444 new deaths and 689,382 infections were registered in the world. The countries that registered the most deaths according to the latest official balances are The United States with 2,710, Brazil (823) and Mexico (762).
The number of deaths in the United States amounts to 313,660 with 17,465,147 infections. The authorities consider that 6,298,082 people were healed.
After the United States, the countries with the most fatalities are Brazil, with 185,650 deaths and 7,162,978 cases, India, with 145,136 deaths (10,004,599 cases), Mexico, with 117,249 deaths (1,301,546 cases), and Italy, with 67,894 deaths (1,921,778 cases).
Among the hardest hit countries, Belgium records the highest mortality rate, with 159 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Italy (112), Peru (112), Slovenia (109), Bosnia (109).
This Saturday and since the beginning of the epidemic, Europe added 510,334 deaths (23,543,754 infections), Latin America and the Caribbean 482,064 (14,514,536), the United States and Canada 327,652 (17,957,855), Asia 209,542 (13,347,521 ), Middle East 86,496 (3,746,013), Africa 58,331 (2,471,350), and Oceania 943 (30,648).
This balance was carried out using data from national authorities and with information from the World Health Organization (WHO).
Due to corrections by the authorities or late release of the data, the increase in the 24-hour published figures may not exactly match the previous day’s numbers.
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