The latest figures obtained from official sources reveal that the novel Coronavirus has so far claimed the lives of at least 571,674 people worldwide since its appearance in China last December, while it infected 13 million and 41,719 people, according to "World Meter" website this morning.
The United States recorded 59,747 new infections within 24 hours, according to Johns Hopkins University, which added that the total number of pandemic patients in the country rose to 3,301,820 people, and that the number of deaths rose to 135,171.
The casualties among the Americans spread to the country's soldiers deployed in military bases in Japan. Reuters quoted a senior Japanese official saying that Tokyo and the United States are exchanging information after the outbreak sparked outrage in Japan's southern province of Okinawa.
"U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture has confirmed 32 more new coronavirus cases," the prefectural government said today, pushing the total since last week to more than 90 at three facilities there.
The prefectural government said Saturday that Futenma and Camp Hansen, another U.S. Marine base, have been put on lockdown by the military with 61 coronavirus cases. At least one other case had been reported at Camp Kinser.
The two Americas are still the epicenter of the pandemic today, as Reuters data showed that the number of coronavirus deaths in Mexico exceeded 35 thousand cases yesterday, bypassing Italy to become the fourth largest country in the number of victims in the world after the United States, Brazil and Britain.
Mexico has recorded nearly 300,000 cases of infection so far. Argentina exceeded one hundred thousand cases yesterday, despite the imposition of a strict quarantine in the capital, Buenos Aires and its surrounding areas. The number of deaths in Argentina reached 1845, with wide gap with Brazil, which reported more than 71 thousand deaths until Sunday, as well as Peru, which recorded 11,682.
In Australia, Sydney authorities have called on people to be careful while the country's second city of Melbourne is witnessing a new outbreak of the pandemic. Three bars in Sydney and its suburbs were closed because of their abandoning of social isolation procedures.
In Palestine, the government announced a two-week night curfew, aimed at combating the virus after a high number of infections were recently reported. The number of cases reached 5793, including 4,142 in the West Bank city of Hebron only.
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