Iran Press/ America: "The rise in Brazil is no longer exponential, Brazil should seize the chance to push the disease down, to suppress the transmission of the virus and to take control of it," WHO Executive Director Michael Ryan said in a news conference.
Brazil surpassed 2 million infections Thursday and Friday it reported 34,177 new cases and 1,163 deaths from the virus. It has registered more than 2,046,328 infections and almost 78,000 death.
in Bolivia, Seven Cabinet ministers in the administration of Jeanine Ánez tested positive for COVID-19 in less than a month. The latest to confirm diagnosis was Minister of Productive Development and Plural Economy Jose Abel Martínez.
The ministers of foreign affairs, health, mining, hydrocarbons, and economy and public finance, and Anez, have all fallen victim to the Coronavirus.
Bolivia has 54,156 cases and 1,984 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
In Argentina, the government announced Friday it will gradually loosen a lockdown that has lasted four months in and around Buenos Aires, although it recorded its highest number of new cases.
The nation has 119,301 confirmed cases and 2,178 deaths.
The Coronavirus pandemic has sickened more than 13,969,500 people, according to official counts. As of Friday evening, at least 594,100 people have died, and the virus has been detected in nearly every country. 207/216
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