African continent sees 33,385 new Covid19 cases. Other updates: 🇧🇷 Brazil registers over 24,000 new cases 🇦🇺 Australia's Victoria reports 92 local cases 🇲🇽 Mexico records more than 17,000 cases For more:
In this file photo taken on June 20, 2021, a resident receives a dose of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine against Covid-19 during the first day of a mass vaccination campaign within the 'paqueta vaccinated' project at Paqueta island in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazil has registered 24,699 new coronavirus cases and 684 additional Covid-19 deaths in the last24 hours, the Health Ministry said.
This is the highest number of new daily cases in nearly a year. Of the infections, 61 were linked to existing outbreaks, the health department said on Twitter.The African continent has seen 33,385 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its daily update.
According to the update, the number of total infections on the continent rose to over 7.69 million on Saturday from the previous day’s 7.66 million. The continent of 1.3 billion people also registered a total of 193,402 deaths after 759 patients were confirmed to have died of the virus over the past one day, said the centers, based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.The number of tests the continent has so far managed to conduct stands at nearly 65.76 million.
Broken down by region, Southern Africa recorded 3.7 million cases, North Africa 2.3 million, East Africa 897,900 cases, West Africa 594,400, and Central Africa 217,600 cases.
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