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In total, at least 25,029,250 cases were diagnosed. Nearly four out of ten cases were detected in the United States and Brazil, by far the two most affected countries, with 5,960,652 infected (182,760 deaths) and 3,846,153 infections (120,262 deaths), respectively.
Globally, there are 842,915 deaths caused by covid-19, according to AFP’s count from official sources.
Asia is once again the region of the world that registered the highest number of cases in the last seven days (570,819), with more than eight out of ten diagnosed in India.
It is followed by Latin America and the Caribbean (552,238), Canada and the United States (296,503), Europe (221,670), the Middle East (80,966), Africa (59,688) and Oceania (1,670).
In total, behind Latin America and the Caribbean (7,222,153 cases and 273,887 deaths), Canada and the United States registered 6,088,321 infections and 191,910 deaths, ahead of Asia (5,060,936 infected, 96,124 deaths), Europe (3,911 .286 cases, 214,995 deaths) and the Middle East (1,479,598 infected, 35,959 deaths).
Africa (1,238,149 cases, 29,399 deaths), the least affected continent after Oceania (28,807,641), registered more than half of the infections in South Africa (almost 640,000).
