Covid spreads: more than 3 million deaths in the world. Alarm for Tokyo Olympics

by time news

Despite the arrival of vaccines and all kinds of containment measures attempted in various places around the world, Covid is still rampant. There are now more than 3 million deaths caused by the coronavirus. And it is alarm for the Tokyo Olympics which should be held in the summer.

The numbers come from Johns Hopkins University. According to data from Johns Hopkins University updated at 12 (Italian time) the deaths related to the coronavirus in the world were in fact 3,000,225, while the infections recorded since the beginning of the pandemic were 139,979,449. The US is the country with the most victims (566,224) followed by Brazil (368,749) and Mexico with 211,693. Brazil and India are exhausted. New Delhi enters lockdown as the second most populous nation in the world registers more than 200,000 new cases every day. In São Paulo, where President Jair Bolsonaro has refused any attempt to contain the infection since the beginning of the pandemic, saying no even to masks, people are forced to work night shifts in cemeteries for burials. New closures imposed in Bangladesh and Pakistan. And in Japan, the increase in infections feeds rumors about a new cancellation of the Games, which have already been postponed by a year.

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