Brazil jumps to world No. 2 in coronavirus cases, behind the U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazil became the world No. 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases on Friday, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 342,410 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry said.

Brazil registered 1,001 daily coronavirus deaths on Friday, taking total deaths to 21,934, according to the Health Ministry.

In Sao Paulo, the worst hit city, aerial video showed rows of open plots at the Formosa Cemetery as it rushed to keep up with demand.

Like his American counterpart( President Donald Trump) , the Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been widely criticized for his handling of the outbreak and is at the center too of a deepening political crisis.

The former army captain has seen his poll ratings drop, hurt by his opposition to social distancing measures, support of the unproven remedy chloroquine, and tussles with experienced public health officials.

The true number of cases and deaths is likely higher than the figures suggest, as Latin America’s top economy has been slow to ramp up testing.

The outbreak is accelerating. On Monday, Brazil overtook Britain to become the country with the third highest number of infections. It surpassed Russia on Friday, but is unlikely to pass the United States soon. The world’s No 1 economy has more than 1.5 million cases.

Since the outbreak began, Bolsonaro has lost two health ministers, after pressuring them to promote the early use of anti-malarial drugs like chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine. Several high-profile public health experts have also left. Many have been replaced by soldiers.

On Wednesday, Interim Health Minister Eduardo Pazuello, an active-duty army general, authorized new guidelines for the wider use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in mild cases.

(Reuters)

World wide update

Reported Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 213 countries and territories around the world and 2 international conveyances. The day is reset after midnight GMT+0. The list of countries and territories and their continental regional classification is based on the United Nations Geoscheme. Sources are provided under “Latest Updates”. 

#	Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop	Population
	World	5,389,182	+90,975	343,460	+4,035	2,235,706	2,810,016	53,536	691	44.1
1	USA	1,665,839	+20,745	98,651	+1,004	445,353	1,121,835	17,111	5,036	298	14,322,767	43,298	330,795,837
2	Brazil	342,410	+11,520	21,934	+886	135,430	185,046	8,318	1,612	103	735,224	3,462	212,397,420
3	Russia	335,882	+9,434	3,388	+139	107,936	224,558	2,300	2,302	23	8,402,747	57,581	145,927,974
4	Spain	282,370	+466	28,678	+50	196,958	56,734	1,152	6,040	613	3,037,840	64,977	46,752,901
5	UK	257,154	+2,959	36,675	+282	N/A	N/A	1,559	3,790	541	3,348,507	49,353	67,848,130
6	Italy	229,327	+669	32,735	+119	138,840	57,752	572	3,792	541	3,391,188	56,080	60,470,956
7	France	182,469	+250	28,332	+43	64,547	89,590	1,665	2,796	434	1,384,633	21,218	65,258,400
8	Germany	179,986	+273	8,366	+14	159,900	11,720	919	2,149	100	3,595,059	42,923	83,755,775
9	Turkey	155,686	+1,186	4,308	+32	117,602	33,776	775	1,848	51	1,807,673	21,459	84,239,988
10	Iran	133,521	+1,869	7,359	+59	104,072	22,090	2,633	1,592	88	781,286	9,315	83,874,391
11	India	131,423	+6,629	3,868	+142	54,385	73,170	8,944	95	3	2,834,798	2,056	1,378,529,934
12	Peru	115,754	+4,056	3,373	+129	47,915	64,466	909	3,516	102	788,341	23,947	32,920,920
13	Canada	83,621	+1,141	6,355	+105	43,305	33,961	502	2,218	169	1,420,505	37,673	37,706,381
14	China	82,971		4,634		78,258	79	9	58	3			1,439,323,776
15	Saudi Arabia	70,161	+2,442	379	+15	41,236	28,546	339	2,019	11	684,615	19,699	34,753,259
16	Chile	65,393	+3,536	673	+43	26,546	38,174	1,062	3,424	35	457,332	23,946	19,098,478
17	Mexico	62,527	+2,960	6,989	+479	42,725	12,813	378	486	54	201,838	1,567	128,785,048
18	Belgium	56,810	+299	9,237	+25	15,155	32,418	259	4,904	797	768,706	66,358	11,584,289
19	Pakistan	52,437	+1,743	1,101	+34	16,653	34,683	111	238	5	460,692	2,090	220,403,741
20	Netherlands	45,064	+176	5,811	+23	N/A	N/A	227	2,631	339	313,755	18,315	17,130,906
21	Qatar	42,213	+1,732	21	+2	8,513	33,679	177	14,680	7	184,794	64,263	2,875,579
22	Ecuador	36,258	+430	3,096	+40	3,557	29,605	208	2,059	176	105,462	5,988	17,613,161
23	Belarus	35,244	+941	194	+4	13,528	21,522	92	3,730	21	434,618	45,993	9,449,644
24	Sweden	33,188	+379	3,992	+67	4,971	24,225	265	3,288	396	209,900	20,798	10,092,543
25	Bangladesh	32,078	+1,873	452	+20	6,486	25,140	1	195	3	234,675	1,427	164,510,959
26	Singapore	31,068	+642	23		13,882	17,163	8	5,315	4	294,414	50,367	5,845,390
27	Switzerland	30,725	+18	1,905	+2	28,000	820	51	3,553	220	367,037	42,443	8,647,829
28	Portugal	30,471	+271	1,302	+13	7,705	21,464	80	2,987	128	689,705	67,620	10,199,740
29	UAE	28,704	+812	244	+3	14,495	13,965	1	2,906	25	1,600,923	162,082	9,877,270
30	Ireland	24,582	+76	1,604	+12	21,060	1,918	54	4,984	325	295,626	59,943	4,931,752
31	Indonesia	21,745	+949	1,351	+25	5,249	15,145		80	5	239,740	877	273,208,135
32	South Africa	21,343	+1,218	407	+10	10,104	10,832	119	360	7	564,370	9,529	59,226,304
33	Poland	20,931	+312	993	+11	8,977	10,961	160	553	26	750,939	19,839	37,850,876
34	Ukraine	20,580	+432	605	+17	6,929	13,046	256	470	14	277,712	6,346	43,760,129
35	Kuwait	20,464	+900	148	+10	5,747	14,569	192	4,800	35	268,154	62,895	4,263,538
36	Colombia	19,131		682		4,575	13,874	136	376	13	235,948	4,642	50,823,711
37	Romania	17,857	+145	1,176	+10	11,187	5,494	196	928	61	361,566	18,782	19,250,526
38	Israel	16,712	+22	279		14,090	2,343	47	1,817	30	536,306	58,309	9,197,590
39	Japan	16,536	+23	808	+12	13,244	2,484	174	131	6	268,477	2,122	126,515,903
40	Egypt	16,513	+727	735	+28	4,628	11,150	41	162	7	135,000	1,322	102,115,130
41	Austria	16,486	+50	639	+4	15,037	810	28	1,832	71	396,363	44,036	9,000,927
42	Dominican Republic	14,422	+433	458	+2	7,854	6,110	113	1,331	42	65,355	6,031	10,836,077
43	Philippines	13,777	+180	863	+6	3,177	9,737	81	126	8	287,294	2,626	109,419,831
44	Denmark	11,289	+59	561		9,836	892	19	1,950	97	526,285	90,895	5,790,054
45	S. Korea	11,165	+23	266	+2	10,194	705	15	218	5	814,420	15,887	51,264,600
46	Serbia	11,092	+68	238	+1	5,699	5,155	12	1,269	27	214,212	24,507	8,740,939
47	Argentina	10,649		439	+6	3,530	6,680	171	236	10	125,893	2,788	45,150,850
48	Panama	10,267		295		6,275	3,697	72	2,384	68	55,018	12,774	4,307,167
49	Afghanistan	9,998	+782	216	+11	1,040	8,742	19	258	6	29,417	758	38,826,954
50	Czechia	8,853	+40	314	+2	6,038	2,501	29	827	29	394,499	36,845	10,706,906
51	Bahrain	8,802	+388	13	+1	4,465	4,324	8	5,195	8	276,552	163,223	1,694,317
52	Norway	8,340	+8	235		7,727	378	13	1,540	43	229,769	42,419	5,416,680
53	Algeria	8,113	+195	592	+10	4,426	3,095	22	185	14			43,761,439
54	Kazakhstan	7,919	+322	35		4,214	3,670	31	422	2	635,712	33,901	18,752,041
55	Morocco	7,406	+74	198	+1	4,638	2,570	1	201	5	133,561	3,623	36,862,538
56	Nigeria	7,261		221		2,007	5,033	7	35	1	41,907	204	205,542,168
57	Oman	7,257	+463	36	+2	1,848	5,373	31	1,425	7	72,000	14,142	5,091,392
58	Malaysia	7,185	+48	115		5,912	1,158	9	222	4	500,469	15,485	32,320,265
59	Australia	7,111	+16	102	+1	6,494	515	5	279	4	1,192,262	46,815	25,467,448
60	Moldova	6,994	+147	242	+5	3,452	3,300	286	1,733	60	40,565	10,053	4,034,922
61	Ghana	6,617	+131	31		1,978	4,608	16	213	1	193,705	6,249	30,998,526
62	Finland	6,568	+31	306		4,800	1,462	21	1,186	55	165,600	29,893	5,539,822
63	Armenia	6,302	+374	77	+3	2,936	3,289	10	2,127	26	49,080	16,566	2,962,665
64	Bolivia	5,579	+392	230	+15	575	4,774	3	479	20	14,803	1,270	11,655,388
65	Cameroon	4,400		159		1,822	2,419	28	166	6			26,468,556
66	Iraq	4,272	+308	152	+5	2,585	1,535		106	4	181,882	4,534	40,118,148
67	Luxembourg	3,990	+9	109		3,758	123	8	6,386	174	66,653	106,673	624,836
68	Azerbaijan	3,982	+127	49	+3	2,506	1,427	42	393	5	265,067	26,168	10,129,286
69	Hungary	3,713	+35	482	+6	1,655	1,576	21	384	50	159,260	16,482	9,662,856
70	Honduras	3,477	+273	167	+11	439	2,871	13	352	17	11,820	1,196	9,886,968
71	Sudan	3,378		137		372	2,869		77	3	394	9	43,730,378
72	Uzbekistan	3,115	+87	13		2,532	570	4	93	0.4	460,000	13,766	33,415,264
73	Guinea	3,067		19		1,575	1,473	24	234	1	13,726	1,049	13,090,666
74	Thailand	3,040	+3	56		2,916	68	61	44	0.8	328,073	4,701	69,781,627
75	Senegal	2,976	+67	34	+1	1,416	1,526	6	178	2	34,082	2,042	16,691,939
76	Greece	2,876	+2	171	+2	1,374	1,331	20	276	16	152,998	14,672	10,428,193
77	Guatemala	2,743	+231	51	+3	222	2,470	5	153	3	25,464	1,424	17,877,985
78	Tajikistan	2,738	+187	44		1,223	1,471		288	5			9,512,877
79	Bulgaria	2,408	+36	126	+1	808	1,474	29	346	18	73,210	10,528	6,953,654
80	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,391	+19	141		1,662	588	4	728	43	58,694	17,879	3,282,865
81	Ivory Coast	2,366	+25	30	+1	1,188	1,148		90	1	22,233	845	26,301,903
82	Djibouti	2,270		10		1,064	1,196		2,301	10	22,097	22,402	986,402
83	Croatia	2,243		99		2,023	121	6	546	24	60,864	14,817	4,107,806
84	DRC	2,025	+80	63		312	1,650		23	0.7			89,234,236
85	North Macedonia	1,941	+20	113	+1	1,411	417	21	932	54	24,762	11,885	2,083,383
86	Cuba	1,931	+15	81		1,671	179	4	170	7	92,629	8,177	11,327,329
87	Estonia	1,821	+14	64		1,526	231	2	1,373	48	75,249	56,730	1,326,442
88	El Salvador	1,819	+94	33		570	1,216	25	281	5	70,225	10,833	6,482,732
89	Iceland	1,804	+1	10		1,791	3		5,290	29	58,225	170,745	341,006
90	Gabon	1,728		12		402	1,314	6	779	5	8,622	3,884	2,219,628
91	Lithuania	1,616	+12	63	+2	1,135	418	17	593	23	264,882	97,171	2,725,949
92	Somalia	1,594		61		204	1,329	2	101	4			15,840,585
93	Mayotte	1,521		19		894	608	11	5,591	70	5,200	19,114	272,048
94	Slovakia	1,504	+1	28		1,280	196	1	275	5	156,765	28,715	5,459,368
95	New Zealand	1,504		21		1,455	28	1	312	4	255,850	53,103	4,818,013
96	Slovenia	1,468		106		1,340	22	4	706	51	75,110	36,130	2,078,908
97	Kyrgyzstan	1,365	+15	14		957	394	5	210	2	98,281	15,092	6,512,107
98	Maldives	1,313	+39	4		115	1,194	9	2,434	7	11,775	21,827	539,469
99	Kenya	1,192	+31	50		380	762	1	22	0.9	57,650	1,075	53,634,644
100	Guinea-Bissau	1,114		6		42	1,066		568	3	1,500	764	1,962,592
101	Lebanon	1,097	+11	26		667	404	4	161	4	71,814	10,517	6,828,536
102	Sri Lanka	1,089	+21	9		660	420	1	51	0.4	51,094	2,387	21,403,762
103	Hong Kong	1,066		4		1,029	33	1	142	0.5	202,930	27,092	7,490,427
104	Tunisia	1,048		47		903	98	3	89	4	46,628	3,950	11,805,138
105	Latvia	1,046	+16	22		712	312	2	554	12	97,846	51,819	1,888,237
106	Mali	1,015	+46	63	+1	574	378		50	3	3,483	173	20,181,288
107	Albania	989	+8	31		783	175	5	344	11	13,133	4,563	2,878,120
108	Equatorial Guinea	960		11		165	784		687	8	854	611	1,397,381
109	Venezuela	944		10		262	672	2	33	0.4	735,426	25,855	28,444,157
110	Niger	943	+6	61	+1	775	107		39	3	5,989	249	24,098,369
111	Cyprus	927		17		594	316	10	768	14	99,733	82,669	1,206,416
112	Zambia	920		7		336	577	1	50	0.4	20,011	1,092	18,322,805
113	Costa Rica	918	+7	10		607	301	4	180	2	22,910	4,502	5,089,080
114	Paraguay	850	+12	11		298	541		119	2	23,805	3,342	7,122,901
115	Burkina Faso	814		52		672	90		39	2			20,835,388
116	Haiti	812	+78	25		22	765		71	2	2,582	227	11,387,245
117	Andorra	762		51		653	58	3	9,864	660	3,750	48,542	77,252
118	Uruguay	753		20		603	130	5	217	6	37,178	10,707	3,472,463
119	Georgia	728	+5	12		509	207	6	182	3	45,707	11,456	3,989,952
120	Diamond Princess	712		13		651	48	4					0
121	Jordan	704	+4	9		470	225	5	69	0.9	161,722	15,867	10,192,121
122	San Marino	665	+4	42	+1	266	357	1	19,603	1,238	3,968	116,967	33,924
123	South Sudan	655	+92	8	+2	6	641		59	0.7	3,356	300	11,179,329
124	Chad	648	+37	60	+2	204	384		40	4			16,369,695
125	Sierra Leone	621	+15	39	+1	241	341		78	5			7,958,421
126	Malta	609	+9	6		473	130	1	1,380	14	59,511	134,817	441,420
127	Nepal	584	+68	3		70	511	1	20	0.1	132,195	4,546	29,077,526
128	Channel Islands	558		45		508	5		3,213	259	5,342	30,756	173,689
129	CAR	552	+73	1	+1	18	533		115	0.2	11,570	2,400	4,820,296
130	Jamaica	544	+10	9		191	344		184	3	9,554	3,228	2,959,800
131	Tanzania	509		21		183	305	7	9	0.4			59,531,669
132	Ethiopia	494	+61	5		151	338		4	0.04	76,962	671	114,630,633
133	Madagascar	488	+40	2		138	348	4	18	0.07	5,670	205	27,607,404
134	Congo	487	+18	16		147	324		89	3			5,502,218
135	Réunion	452	+3	1		411	40	2	505	1	17,200	19,226	894,627
136	Taiwan	441		7		411	23		19	0.3	70,526	2,962	23,812,274
137	Palestine	423		3	+1	348	72		83	0.6	44,876	8,821	5,087,651
138	Togo	373	+10	12		133	228		45	1	15,987	1,936	8,256,184
139	Cabo Verde	371	+9	3		142	226		668	5	1,307	2,354	555,327
140	Isle of Man	336		24		303	9	2	3,954	282	4,454	52,409	84,985
141	Mauritius	332		10		322	0		261	8	101,052	79,472	1,271,548
142	Rwanda	325	+4			227	98		25		57,077	4,420	12,914,674
143	Montenegro	324		9		314	1		516	14	10,167	16,188	628,058
144	Vietnam	324				267	57	2	3		275,000	2,828	97,243,794
145	Nicaragua	279		17		199	63		42	3			6,615,901
146	French Guiana	279	+18	1		143	135		937	3			297,772
147	Liberia	255	+6	26	+2	136	93		51	5			5,043,867
148	Sao Tome and Principe	251		8		4	239		1,148	37	175	800	218,697
149	Eswatini	238	+13	2		119	117		205	2	4,994	4,309	1,158,855
150	Yemen	212	+3	39	+6	11	162		7	1	120	4	29,750,177
151	Myanmar	201	+2	6		120	75		4	0.1	17,875	329	54,370,772
152	Mauritania	200		6		7	187		43	1	2,583	557	4,635,263
153	Uganda	198	+23			68	130		4		83,788	1,839	45,566,443
154	Martinique	197		14		91	92		525	37			375,295
155	Faeroe Islands	187				187	0		3,829		9,084	185,984	48,843
156	Mozambique	168	+4			48	120		5		7,947	255	31,151,425
157	Guadeloupe	156		13		115	28	3	390	32	3,573	8,930	400,117
158	Gibraltar	152	+1			147	5		4,511		6,101	181,082	33,692
159	Brunei	141		1		136	4	2	323	2	18,411	42,128	437,024
160	Mongolia	141				30	111	27	43		12,341	3,771	3,272,373
161	Benin	135		3		61	71		11	0.2	26,792	2,217	12,085,815
162	Cayman Islands	129		1		61	67		1,965	15	8,426	128,373	65,637
163	Bermuda	128		9		81	38	2	2,055	144	6,133	98,441	62,301
164	Guyana	127		10		57	60	3	162	13	1,366	1,738	786,150
165	Cambodia	124	+1			122	2	1	7		16,007	959	16,693,317
166	Trinidad and Tobago	116		8		108	0		83	6	2,866	2,049	1,399,011
167	Aruba	101		3		95	3	4	946	28	2,061	19,313	106,718
168	Monaco	98	+1	4		90	4	1	2,499	102			39,212
169	Bahamas	97		11		45	41	1	247	28	1,910	4,862	392,836
170	Barbados	92	+2	7		70	15	4	320	24	4,664	16,232	287,338
171	Malawi	82		3		28	51	1	4	0.2	2,411	126	19,071,854
172	Liechtenstein	82		1		55	26		2,151	26	900	23,612	38,117
173	Comoros	78		1		18	59		90	1			867,471
174	Sint Maarten	77		15		59	3	1	1,798	350	437	10,205	42,823
175	Libya	75	+3	3		39	33		11	0.4	4,351	634	6,860,947
176	Syria	70	+11	4		37	29		4	0.2			17,451,066
177	Angola	60		3		17	40		2	0.09	6,136	187	32,743,009
178	French Polynesia	60				60	0		214		3,873	13,796	280,735
179	Zimbabwe	56	+5	4		18	34		4	0.3	35,112	2,366	14,838,856
180	Macao	45				45	0		69				648,355
181	Burundi	42		1		20	21		4	0.08	284	24	11,848,359
182	Saint Martin	40		3		33	4	1	1,036	78	553	14,329	38,592
183	Eritrea	39				39	0		11				3,540,980
184	Botswana	30		1		19	10		13	0.4	16,100	6,862	2,346,198
185	Antigua and Barbuda	25		3		19	3	1	256	31	183	1,870	97,842
186	Gambia	25		1		13	11		10	0.4	1,476	613	2,408,601
187	Bhutan	24	+3			6	18		31		15,293	19,844	770,679
188	Timor-Leste	24				24	0		18		738	561	1,315,590
189	Grenada	22				17	5	4	196		3,007	26,736	112,468
190	Namibia	20	+1			14	6		8		2,847	1,123	2,535,696
191	Laos	19				14	5		3		5,194	715	7,263,819
192	Belize	18		2		16	0		45	5	1,435	3,616	396,811
193	Fiji	18				15	3		20		1,300	1,451	895,748
194	New Caledonia	18				18	0		63		5,454	19,123	285,200
195	Saint Lucia	18				18	0		98		867	4,724	183,538
196	St. Vincent Grenadines	18				14	4		162		209	1,885	110,903
197	Curaçao	17	+1	1		14	2		104	6	504	3,073	164,022
198	Dominica	16				16	0		222		433	6,017	71,967
199	Saint Kitts and Nevis	15				15	0		282		391	7,355	53,159
200	Falkland Islands	13				13	0		3,749		445	128,316	3,468
201	Turks and Caicos	12		1		10	1		310	26	126	3,259	38,659
202	Vatican City	12				2	10		14,981				801
203	Montserrat	11		1		10	0		2,204	200	36	7,212	4,992
204	Suriname	11		1		9	1		19	2	404	689	586,063
205	Greenland	11				11	0		194		1,850	32,593	56,760
206	Seychelles	11				11	0		112				98,282
207	MS Zaandam	9		2			7						0
208	British Virgin Islands	8		1		6	1		265	33	167	5,528	30,209
209	Papua New Guinea	8				8	0		0.9		2,402	269	8,927,762
210	Caribbean Netherlands	6				6	0		229		424	16,185	26,197
211	St. Barth	6				6	0		608		137	13,875	9,874
212	Western Sahara	6				6	0		10				595,623
213	Anguilla	3				3	0		200		30	2,001	14,989
214	Lesotho	2					2		0.9		274	128	2,140,421
215	Saint Pierre Miquelon	1				1	0		173				5,797
	Total:	5,389,182	+90,975	343,460	+4,035	2,235,706	2,810,016	53,536	691.4	44.1

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