The novel coronavirus has infected more than 7.8 million people worldwide and killed more than 430,000, according to Johns Hopkins University. Here’s what’s happening with COVID-19 around the world.
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The global number of confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeded 7.8 million as of Sunday morning, with over 430,000 fatalities, according to figures compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
In the United States, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country topped 2.07 million, reaching 2,074,526 as of 7 a.m. ET, with the national death toll of COVID-19 rising to 115,436, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to resume his campaign rallies next week and attendees are asked to promise they won’t sue the president or organizers if they catch coronavirus by attending.
In Brazil, the country has so far reported more than 850,000 COVID-19 cases with 42,720 deaths, the country’s health ministry reported on Saturday.
In the last 24 hours, the country registered 892 new deaths from the virus with 21,704 new cases, according to the health ministry.
Sao Paulo, the epicentre of the virus in Brazil and the country’s most populous state, has registered 172,875 cases and 10,581 deaths, followed by Rio de Janeiro with 78,836 cases and 7,592 deaths, and Ceara with 76,429 cases and 4,829 deaths.
Brazil, with the second-highest number of cases in the world after the United States, surpassed Britain to have the second-highest death toll in the world on Friday.
Also on Saturday, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Peru reached 220,749, with 6,308 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health of Peru.
Peruvian Minister of Health Victor Zamora said the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country is showing a slow decline, especially in the City of Iquitos inside the Peruvian Amazon.
According to the local media, the Health Ministry of Peru will allocate $113 million US to build temporary hospitals in Lima and nine regions of the country in about 10 days.
As of Saturday night, Argentina had reported 30 new deaths and 1,531 new cases, bringing the total number of deaths to 815 and that of confirmed cases to 30,295, with 1,407 cases from the capital city of Buenos Aires and the surrounding areas.
Nursing homes have been hit hard since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, with several institutions across the country reporting confirm