translated from Spanish: Pandemic surpasses its daily world record with more than 640,000 cases

Sadly, the pandemic surpassed its daily record: today there were 640,000 positive cases of coronavirus worldwide amounting to more than 49 million cases and 1.24 million people killed since the start of the pandemic, according to johns University Hopkins.De that figure, more than half of the 49,432,800 infected are in the three most affected countries : India, Brazil and the United States. The latter is the most contagious country in the world with 9.7 million positive cases and 236,073 deaths, after recording a new record of 126,000 new cases in the last 24 hours. For its part, India has accumulated 8.4 million people infected, 50,000 of them in the last 24 hours and recorded a total of 125,562 fatalities. Brazil remains on the list with 5.6 million infected and 162,015 dead. The fourth most affected country is Russia, which accumulates 1.72 million cases and today exceeded the number of 30,000 dead. The expansion of the pandemic mainly affects Europe, with an upward curve already exceeding 12.5 million cases. For this reason, local governments on the continent continue to take restrictive measures aimed at containing the advancement of contagions and fatalities. Some of them are France, Italy, England and Germany that imposed strong restrictions to contain the spread of the virus. Global concern today also revolves around the cases of Covid-19 recorded in mink hatcheries in Denmark after Denmark reported on these animals the emergence of a new strain, called “Cluster 5”. According to early studies, this mutation of the virus threatens the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines in different countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

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