In India , for the first time – the limit of 200,000 cases of the new coronavirus in one day was exceeded , the authorities of the Asian country announced.
According to the federal Ministry of Health, 200,739 cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been laboratory confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to over 14 million (it has now reached 14,074,564).
At the same time, the deaths of 1,038 patients with COVID-19 have increased the death toll from the pandemic to 173,123 , according to foreign news agencies and the Athens News Agency.
India returned to second place in the world rankings a few days ago in terms of the number of recorded cases of the new coronavirus, just behind the US (31.4 million), while the number of pandemic victims in the country remains the fourth highest in world, behind those of the USA, Brazil and Mexico.
For almost 10 days, the number of laboratory-confirmed cases on a daily basis exceeds 100,000. The so-called active cases are now approaching 1.5 million (they have reached 1,471,877).
Brazil: Nearly 3,500 deaths in one day
The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced yesterday Wednesday that in the previous 24 hours another 3,459 patients with COVID-19 succumbed, while 73,513 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the laboratory.
With 361,884 deaths out of a total of 13,673,507 infections, Brazil, with a population of 212 million, has the second-highest number of new coronavirus pandemics in the world, behind the United States, and the third-highest number of infections, behind the United States and India.
The epidemiological situation continues to deteriorate, in the absence of a coherent policy and restrictive measures at the federal level, due to the P1 variant as well as the slow progress of the vaccination campaign, which stumbles on many problems.
Argentina: The heaviest report of the last quarter
The Argentine Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that another 368 patients had been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the highest death toll since Jan. 18, when 425 deaths were reported.
During the same period, 25,157 cases of SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the laboratory; this is the sixth time in nine days that the new coronavirus infections have exceeded 20,000.
The pandemic of the new coronavirus amounts to 58,542 dead so far out of a total of 2,604,157 cases, according to official data.
Referring to the outbreak of infections, Health Minister Carla Witsotti called on citizens to stay home and only go out if they need to go to work, take their children to school or if it is an “absolute necessity”.
As for the immunization campaign in Argentina, which began on December 29, 5,874,864 doses of vaccine have been given so far, according to Health Ministry figures.
Case record in Thailand
Thailand has recorded 1,543 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, marking the largest increase in one day of the virus and the fourth record in a week amid a third wave of the epidemic in that country. Southeast Asia.
Authorities said no deaths were reported in the past 24 hours.
With the new cases announced today, their total number since the outbreak of the pandemic rose to 37,453 in Thailand, while the deaths from COVID-19 remained at 97, as reported by Reuters and rebroadcast by the Athens News Agency.
