{"id":74994,"date":"2020-05-18T12:54:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=74994"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:55:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T04:55:16","slug":"covid-19-pandemic-tracking-the-global-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=74994","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 pandemic: Tracking the global outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PARIS, May 18 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Coronavirus is continuing its spread across the world, with more than 4.6 million confirmed cases in 188 countries. More than 309,000 people have lost their lives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UNITED STATES: The United States recorded 820 new coronavirus fatalities in the previous 24 hours, but the country\u2019s total death count neared 90,000, a Johns Hopkins University tracker reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest toll, marked at 8:30 pm (0030 GMT Monday), was the lowest since 776 daily deaths were recorded on May 10, but the count ranged as high as 1,894 in subsequent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the real-time tracker by Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins, the United States has 1,486,376 cases of novel coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LATIN AMERICA\/CARIBBEAN: Latin America and the Caribbean have recorded more than half a million coronavirus infections, according to official reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost half have been recorded in Brazil \u2014 the country worst-hit by the pandemic in the region \u2014 which also has more than 15,000 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PERU: Peru said it will construct a fast-build hospital in the Amazon as it seeks to respond to a growing COVID-19 emergency sweeping through the indigenous population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State social security body EsSalud said it expects the 100-bed hospital in Pucallpa, capital of the remote Ucayali region on the border with Brazil, to be operational within three weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The government said it would rush 220 healthworker reinforcements to the Amazon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prime Minister Gustavo Zeballos said the government would ensure the supply of oxygen and other vital medical materials via \u201can air and land bridge\u201d to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desperate COVID-19 patients have been dying in the region\u2019s hospitals for lack of oxygen, officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 2,250 cases of Peru\u2019s COVID-19 cases have been registered in Loreto, with 95 deaths, according to official figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loreto, which borders Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, is the largest and least populated region in Peru but also the worst affected by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Church authorities in Iquitos have organized a public collection to acquire another plant to provide oxygen bottles for local hospitals.
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ITALY: Italy on Sunday recorded the fewest deaths from coronavirus in one day since its two-month lockdown began, as the country stands poised to reopen most commercial activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The civil protection unit said 145 people had died of the virus in the last 24 hours, the lowest level since March 9, when 97 people died of Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italy\u2019s worst one-day death toll from the virus was on March 27, with 969 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPAIN: Spain on Sunday reported 87 coronavirus deaths over a 24-hour period, the first time in two months that the daily toll has dropped below 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number came a day before Spain is to further relax lockdown measures across the country, except in Madrid and Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the height of the current outbreak in early April, Spain counted 950 deaths in one day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spain remains one of the countries hardest hit by the virus with a total of 27,650 deaths, the health ministry reported on Sunday. The number of confirmed cases is more than 231,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRANCE: Deaths from the new coronavirus in France passed 28,000 Sunday, the health ministry announced, as officials tried to contain outbreaks in two abattoirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest daily toll, of 483, the largest in several weeks, was made up mainly of deaths in care homes: 429 deaths, compared to only 54 in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those numbers took France\u2019s total number of deaths from the virus to 28,108.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the virus arrived in France, 98,569 people have been hospitalised, of whom 17,500 had to be treated in intensive care. More than 61,000 have recovered and been allowed home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa on Sunday reported 1,160 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily number since the first case was recorded in March, data released by the health ministry showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs of today, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 15,515 with 1,160 new cases identified in the last 24 hour cycle of testing,\u201d said the ministry statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The numbers of deaths rose by three to 263 from Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Africa\u2019s most industrialised economy has the highest numbers of infections in Africa, followed by Egypt which has so far recorded 11,719 COVID-19 cases, including 612 deaths. — NNN-AGENCIES
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