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Saturday, July 11, 2020, 16:40
WHO reports record daily spike in global cases, up over 228,000
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Saturday, July 11, 2020, 16:40 By Agencies

Members of the Guarani Mimbya Indigenous community wait to be tested for COVID-19 by health workers from the Butantan Institute in Cananeia, Brazil, July 10, 2020. (ANDRE PENNER / AP)

RIO DE JANEIRO / SANTIAGO / CAIRO / PARIS / BERLIN / NAIROBI / MEXICO CITY / ABAT / MOSCOW / MADRID / JOHANNESBURG / CAPE TOWN / The World Health Organization reported a record increase in global coronavirus cases on Friday, with the total rising by 228,102 in 24 hours.

The biggest increases were from the United States, Brazil, India and South Africa, according to a daily report. The previous WHO record for new cases was 212,326 on July 4. Deaths remained steady at about 5,000 a day.

Global coronavirus cases exceeded 12 million on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, marking another milestone in the spread of the disease that has killed more than 555,000 people in seven months.

Spain detected 2,944 new cases of COVID-19 by polymerase chain reaction tests over the past seven days, while outbreaks registered throughout the country

Brazil

Brazil has registered over 70,000 deaths and 1.8 million cases of COVID-19, the government reported on Friday.

According to the Ministry of Health, in the last 24 hours 1,214 deaths were recorded, bringing the total number of deaths from the virus in the country to 70,398.

Additionally, 45,048 new cases were recorded in the same period. This is the fourth consecutive day that the number of deaths has exceeded 1,200 and the number of new cases has exceeded 42,000.

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Chile

Chile reported on Friday that the number of cases of the novel coronavirus in the country has reached 309,274, with 6,781 deaths.

According to the Ministry of Health, 3,058 new cases and 99 more deaths from the virus were reported in the last 24 hours.

The Ministry of Health also reported that there are currently 24,440 active cases of the virus, while 278,053 patients have recovered so far.

Additionally, the ministry stated that 17,727 tests for COVID-19 were administered in the last 24 hours, for a total of 1,255,359 tests administered since March, with a positivity rate of 24.64 percent.

Chile is still under a state of emergency and curfew, the borders remain closed, and non-essential trade has been prohibited in an effort to slow the spread of the virus.

Egypt

Egypt registered on Friday 981 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total infections in the country to 80,235, said the health ministry.

Also on Friday, 85 cases have died from the respiratory disease in Egypt, taking the death toll to 3,702, the ministry's spokesman, Khaled Megahed, said in a statement.

Meanwhile, 521 patients were cured and discharged from hospitals on Friday, raising the total recoveries to 23,274, Megahed revealed.

Egypt announced its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Feb. 14 and the first death from the highly infectious virus on March 8.

Cairo resumed international flights on July 1 after more than three months of suspension, amid a coexistence plan to maintain anti-coronavirus precautionary measures while resuming economic activities.

France

France on Friday became the sixth country to report a death toll of more than 30,000 from coronavirus infection.

The health ministry said in a statement that 25 people had died from coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours, boosting the cumulative total since early March to 30,004.

Friday's increase compares to an average increase of 15 in the previous seven days. In June, France counted on average 34 new deaths per day, in May 143 and in April 695.

The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 fell by 115 to 7,062, continuing a weeks-long downtrend, and the number of people in intensive care units fell by 16 to 496, the first time the ICU count fell below 500 since mid-March.

Patient Heike Abicht poses for a photo for a testing situation in a corona screening station in the medical center of the Franz-Josef-Strauss airport in Munich, southern Germany, on July 10, 2020, amid the new coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP)

Germany

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 378 to 198,556, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Saturday.

The reported death toll rose by six to 9,060, the tally showed.

Kenya

Kenya's Ministry of Health on Friday confirmed the first death of a medical doctor from COVID-19 while 292 other health workers have contracted the virus.

Mutahi Kagwe, cabinet secretary in the Ministry of Health, said the deceased, a gynecologist, was among the eight patients who succumbed to the respiratory disease in the last 24 hours.

He said that the doctor was admitted to a Nairobi hospital on Monday night and succumbed to COVID-19 on Friday morning.

Out of the 292 infected health workers, 160 are female as women form the highest number of nurses in the country.

Kagwe said that the latest fatalities brought the total number of those who have succumbed to the virus to 181 since the disease was reported in the country in mid-March.

He also revealed that Kenya's COVID-19 cases passed 9,000 mark after 473 new cases were confirmed from 6,979 samples tested during the last 24 hours.

He said that the total number of cases now stood at 9,448, while a total of 2,733 patients have so far been discharged from health facilities across the country.

Men wearing masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic move boxes across a street in a commercial area of downtown Mexico City, July 10, 2020. (FERNANDO LLANO / AP)

Mexico 

Mexico's health ministry on Friday reported 6,891 new confirmed coronavirus infections and 665 additional fatalities, bringing the total in the country to 289,174 cases and 34,191 deaths.

The government has said the real number of infected people is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.

Morocco

Morocco registered 249 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, raising the tally of infections in the country to 15,328, the Ministry of Health said.

The death toll from the virus reached 243 as one fatality was recorded in the last 24 hours, said Hind Ezzine, head of the department of epidemic diseases of the Ministry of Health, at a regular press briefing.

The number of cured patients has increased to 11,827 with 380 new recoveries, she added.

Russia

Russia on Saturday reported 6,611 new coronavirus cases, taking its nationwide tally of infections to 720,547.

The country's coronavirus crisis response centre said 188 people had died from the virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 11,205.

Russia said 497,446 people have recovered from the virus.

Spain

Spain detected 2,944 new cases of COVID-19 by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests over the past seven days, while outbreaks registered throughout the country, the Spanish Ministry of Health said on Friday.

The outbreak in Segria in the northeastern autonomous community of Catalonia has badly affected many temporary fruit pickers in the area. A two-week quarantine were placed on the region six days ago with movement limits on its 210,000 inhabitants.

While the number of new infections increased, the number of deaths from the disease continued to fall.

According to the ministry, COVID-19 claimed lives of 10 people over the past seven days.

Positive data were also seen in hospitals. Over the same period, 156 people had needed hospital treatment with only eight of them needing intensive care treatment.

So far, Spain has registered 253,908 cases of COVID-19 and 28,403 deaths from the disease.

South Africa

The premier of Gauteng, which is the smallest but the most populated province in South Africa, became the third provincial leader who tested positive for the COVID-19 this week.

His positive test comes at a time when Gauteng, South Africa's economic hub, has seen a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases.

The provincial health department earlier announced that Gauteng has over 80,000 COVID-19 cases and 515 deaths. The province continued this week preparing more field hospitals in Johannesburg and Pretoria as more people are expected to test positive.

The novel coronavirus has claimed the lives of 36 South African police officers and infected over 5,000 others, Polic Minister Bheki Cele said on Friday.

As of Thursday, the country's cumulative number of confirmed cases reached 238,339, of which 13,674 new cases were reported since Wednesday, the highest single-day surge since the outbreak in early March. The death toll stood at 3,720, up by 129 in the past 24 hours, according to  official figures. 

A COVID-19 test site volunteer wearing personal protective equipment gives directions to people waiting in line at a walk-in coronavirus test site in Los Angeles, California on July 10, 2020 as the state continues to set record-highs in coronavirus cases. (FREDERIC J BROWN / AFP)

US

New cases of COVID-19 rose by nearly 69,000 across the US on Friday, according to a Reuters tally, setting a record for the third consecutive day as Walt Disney Co stuck to its plans to reopen its flagship theme park in hard-hit Florida.

A total of eight US states - Alaska, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Montana, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin - also reached records for single-day infections.

California announced on Friday the state will release up to 8,000 inmates early from prisons to slow the spread of COVID 19 inside the facilities. At San Quentin State Prison, outside San Francisco, half of the facility's roughly 3,300 prisoners have tested positive for the virus.

Florida remains one of the worst hotspots for the virus in the nation and is among a handful of states where deaths are rising, based on a Reuters analysis of fatalities in the last two weeks, compared with the prior two weeks.

On Thursday, the state reported a record 120 deaths and added another 92 on Friday. It recorded 11,433 new coronavirus cases on Friday, just short of the state's record, and nearly 7,000 hospitalizations.

The number of confirmed US infections is over 3 million, according to a Reuters tally, stoking fears that hospitals will be overwhelmed.

More than 133,000 Americans have died, a toll that experts warn will likely surge along with the rise in cases.

Overall, coronavirus cases are rising in 44 American states, based on a Reuters analysis of cases for the past two weeks compared with the prior two weeks.

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In this Aug 7, 2019 photo, Tareck El Aissami, Venezuela's minister of industry and national production, attends a rally celebrating the 200 year anniversary of the Battle of Boyaca, at the National Pantheonin Caracas, Venezuela. (PHOTO / BLOOMBERG)

Venezuela

Venezuela’s Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami said he’s tested positive for COVID-19 five days after a televised meeting alongside President Nicolas Maduro.

He is the second close ally of President Maduro to contract the virus this week, following Socialist Party VP Diosdado Cabello, who announced his positive result on Thursday. El Aissami tweeted on Friday that he was isolated and undergoing medical treatment.

He was last publicly seen in a July 5 meeting of a government commission to fight the coronavirus alongside senior government officials and President Maduro in the presidential palace in Caracas. All but Maduro were shown wearing masks.

Venezuela has reported a surge in COVID-19 cases this month, with a record of 419 new infections reported on July 5.

Omar Prieto, governor of Zulia province, has also tested positive for the virus, President Nicolas Maduro said in a speech on Thursday. The western state has been particularly affected, with its hospitals overwhelmed.


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