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Coronavirus latest: Surge in South Africa infections

  • June 05, 2020
  • South Africa records its biggest surge in daily infections
  • India and Pakistan saw spikes in daily cases after ramping up testing efforts
  • Argentina extends its mandatory coronavirus lockdown in capital Buenos Aires
  • About 6.6 million people have now been infected with COVID-19 globally and some 388,000 have died

All times in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC/GMT)

03:53 Brazil’s coronavirus deaths crossed 34,000, giving it the third-highest tally in the world.

With an overall death toll of 34,021 Brazil has also surpassed Italy’s figures, now lying behind only the US and UK. 

The country on Thursday registered a record 1,473 deaths in 24 hours.

The total number of cases since the beginning of the outbreak is at 614,94. Experts say that due to under-testing in Brazil, the actual figures could be much higher.

03:23 Fiji has declared itself COVID-19 free after the recovery of its last known infected patient. Strict isolation measures and border controls are credited with helping to keep a surge in infections in the island nation at bay.

02:45 A Tokyo 2020 executive board member has said that organizers will need to monitor the coronavirus situation until next spring to decide whether to hold the Summer Olympics next year, Kyodo News reports.

The Games were postponed from this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

01:43 Mexico has reported a record jump in the daily numbers of coronavirus infections, with 4,442 new cases being registered.

The daily death toll was at 816.

President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador urged the country to remain calm as the new figures came out. 

”Let there not be psychosis, let there not be fear,” Lopez Obrador said, while also accusing the media of stoking fears.

Experts said confirmation and inclusion of deaths going back as far as 25 days was one of the factors behind the record surge. 

The country has reported a total to 105,680 cases and 12,545 deaths.

01:25 Argentina has extended its mandatory coronavirus lockdown in capital Buenos Aires and other regions with high cases of infection

President Alberto Fernandez made the announcement on Thursday after the country reported over 20,000 confirmed cases in its latest tally.

The lockdown was put in place in March and was set to expire on June 7. 

The rest of the country will see a phase of “mandatory and preventive social distancing.”

Argentina reported 929 new cases of infections on Thursday, one of the highest daily tally since the outbreak began. 

 A total of 608 deaths have been reported.

00:42 South Africa has seen its biggest surge in daily infections with 3,267 cases being registered in 24 hours. 

Fifty-six new deaths were reported, taking the total toll to 848.

The country is the most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa with a total of 40,792 cases of infection.

South Africa was put under one of the world’s most restrictive coronavirus lockdowns in March.

A ban was imposed on the sale of alcohol and cigarettes. However, the country has gradually eased coronavirus measures, down to the third level of the five-grade restriction. 

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government initially saw major support for its measures but after weeks of damage to an already shrinking economy, there is now criticism.

 A high court ruling earlier this week deemed some of the rules governing levels three and four of the lockdown “unconstitutional and invalid”.

 The government said on Thursday that it would appeal the ruling.

00:25 A study published in the European Heart Journal says that COVID-19 patients with high blood pressure are twice as likely to die than those without the condition. 

The study involved researchers from China and Ireland examining coronavirus patients admitted to the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan between February 5 and March 15.

About 30%, 850 patients, had a history of high blood pressure. 

Some 4% of those patients had died in contrast to just over one percent of the 2,027 patients without high blood pressure.

For the patients in the hospital who had stopped taking medication for high blood pressure, the risk of dying doubled again, the researchers noted.

00:00 Catch up on Thursday’s developments here — Coronavirus latest: Pakistan, India report record daily spike in new cases, deaths

In reporting on the coronavirus pandemic, unless otherwise specified, DW uses figures provided by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center in the United States. JHU updates figures in real-time, collating data from world health organizations, state and national governments, and other public official sources, all of whom have their own systems for compiling information.

Germany’s national statistics are compiled by its public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). These figures depend on data transmission from state and local levels and are updated around once a day, which can lead to deviation from JHU.

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