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| - Here is a weekly roundup of developments in the coronavirus crisis: India, the United States and Brazil have reported the highest number of new cases over the last seven days -- with average daily infections of 61,700, 52,500 and 44,600 respectively, according to an AFP tally at 1100 GMT on Friday. That figure dropped in the United States by six percent compared with the previous week, but rose in Brazil by three percent and especially strongly in India, at 13 percent. Four Latin American countries follow: Colombia (10,900), Peru (7,500), Argentina (6,800) and Mexico (6,200). The number of confirmed cases only reflects a fraction of the actual number of infections, with different countries having differing counting practices and levels of testing. France, where authorities are increasingly imposing new mask-wearing orders, is the country in which the virus is spreading most, with an increase of 51 percent, or 1,900 cases per day. Of the countries which have registered more than 1,000 daily cases over the past week, Venezuela follows with 31 percent or 1,000 daily cases, Morocco (30 percent or 1,200). Ecuador (27 percent, 1,100), Iraq (22 percent, 3,400), Ukraine (16 percent, 1,300), Israel (15 percent, 1,500), Bangladesh (14 percent, 2,400) and Turkey (14 percent, 1,200). The rate of infections is slowing down in South Africa, by 38 percent or 5,000 new cases per day, Kazakhstan (-34 percent, 800), the Dominican Republic (-23 percent, 900), Iran (-13 percent, 2,300) and Bolivia (-10 percent, 1,400). By region, the rate of infections is picking up in Europe, with an increase of 12 percent over the previous week, in Asia (10 percent), the Middle East (10 percent) and Latin America (four percent). The number of cases is decreasing in Oceania (-28 percent), Africa (-22 percent), and in the United States and Canada (-6 percent). At the world level the pandemic is accelerating slightly by three percent. The United States has registered the most deaths over the past week with 1,010 per day, followed by Brazil (1,000), India (900), Mexico (680) and Colombia (320). Peru recorded 746 deaths a day on average, but most of them are not down to the last week, because the toll was upped significantly on Thursday. The pandemic has killed at least 754,649 people since the outbreak emerged in China last December, with nearly 21 million cases registered. The United States is the hardest-hit country with at least 167,253 fatalities, followed by Brazil on 105,463, Mexico 55,293, India 48,040, and Britain 41,317, the latter's toll having been revised downwards due to a change in methodology in England. jah/jmy/tgb
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