Live COVID-19 updates: Global COVID-19 deaths surpass 4 million
People walk along the Street in New York, the United States, June 15, 2021. (Xinhua/Michael Nagle)
- Global COVID-19 deaths surpass 4 million
- China's Yunnan reports 2 new confirmed cases
- Brazil reports 1,648 more deaths
- Cuba registers new record number of daily cases
BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
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NEW YORK -- Global COVID-19 deaths surpassed 4 million on Wednesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
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BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina registered 457 more deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the total death toll from the pandemic to 97,439, the Health Ministry said Wednesday.
In the same period, tests detected 19,423 new cases of infection, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4,593,763, the ministry said.
Medical workers sort out swab samples for nucleic acid test in Ruili City of southwest China's Yunnan Province, on July 5, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Guansen)
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KUNMING -- Southwest China's Yunnan Province reported two locally transmitted COVID-19 confirmed cases, both in the city of Ruili, on Wednesday, the provincial health commission said Thursday.
The two confirmed cases were previously found and categorized as asymptomatic infections in the all-inclusive nucleic acid testing in Ruili, the commission said.
Passengers wearing face masks sit inside a bus amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Sao Paulo, Brazil on June 21, 2021. (Photo by Rahel Patrasso/Xinhua)
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazil registered 1,648 more deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 528,540, the health ministry said Wednesday.
A total of 54,022 new infections were detected, raising the total caseload to 18,909,037, the ministry said.
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SANTIAGO -- Chile reported less than 2,000 COVID-19 cases for the second consecutive day, continuing a gradual decline in infections prior to a lifting of a lockdown, the Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
In a statement, Health Minister Enrique Paris said that in the last 24 hours, 1,892 COVID-19 infections were reported, bringing the total number to 1,576,336.
A man wearing a face mask walks with a handcart in Havana, Cuba, July 3, 2021. (Photo by Joaquin Hernandez/Xinhua)
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HAVANA -- Cuba registered a new record of daily COVID-19 infections on Wednesday, with 3,664 cases, for a total of 214,577, along with 18 more deaths to total 1,405.
National director of hygiene and epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health Francisco Duran reported that of the total number of new cases, 3,622 were from community transmission. ■