Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Brazil surpasses 100,000 new COVID cases in a day

Brazil surpassed 100,000 new COVID-19 cases in one day on Thursday, adding another grim record in country where the pandemic has killed more than 300,000 people, the health ministry said.

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Ten key moments in the pandemic

From the first cases in China to worldwide lockdowns and vaccination drives...

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More than 700,000 COVID-19 deaths in Latin America

More than 700,000 lives have been lost to COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean since the pandemic began, according to an AFP tally on Monday evening from official sources.

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Worldwide coronavirus deaths top 2.5 million: AFP count

Covid-19 has killed more than 2.5 million people worldwide since the pandemic began in December 2019, according to an AFP count based on official figures at 1730 GMT Thursday.

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New pandemic cases reduced by half since January

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a sharp slowdown in the number of new cases, which have been cut in half from a peak in early January, according to data gathered by AFP.

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African COVID deaths top 100,000

Africa on Thursday recorded more than 100,000 deaths from COVID-19, a grim milestone likely to understate the real toll, as the continent of 1.2 billion people battles a second wave of infections.

Vaccination

Colombia gets first shipment of coronavirus vaccines

Colombia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccines on Monday and will soon begin to vaccinate its population of 50 million people, the third largest in Latin America.

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