The map that shows Argentina among the countries most affected by the coronavirus

crimson red. It is the color that marks the Argentina on a map on which our country appears among the hardest hit of the world by the coronavirus pandemic, measured by the rate of deaths and infections from Covid-19 per million inhabitants in the last seven days.

According to the site Our world in data, Argentina is in fifth place in terms of positive cases, in the average of the last seven days. It is behind the Maldives (2509 cases per million inhabitants on average last week); Bahrain (1107), Uruguay (906) and Seychelles (842). Argentina records 647. Then followed by Costa Rica (468), Cape Verde (388) and Sweden (385).

When it comes to the death rate per million inhabitants in the last seven days, the list is at the top Uruguay (15.3), followed by Antigua and Barbuda (14.7), Paraguay (11.7), Argentina (10.9), Seychelles (10.1), Colombia ( 9.7), Peru (9, 2) and Brazil (9.1).

Globally, the coronavirus has already stopped more than 3.4 million dead in the world, according to the latest report from the AFP news agency on Friday. And the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday 21 that the excess mortality caused by the pandemic is up to three times higher than the deaths attributed to covid-19 since the first cases were detected in China, end of 2019.

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In Latin America, where there are over 31.4 million cases, the symbolic figure of one million dead will likely be exceeded in the coming hours.

The virus first appeared in the region on February 26, 2020 in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo. Almost 90% of registered deaths are distributed among five countries which represent 70% of its population: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Peru.

Brazil, with nearly 445,000 dead, continues to fight the virus, at a time when the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation for its management of the health crisis. Mexico, the second most affected country on the continent, with more than 221,000 deaths, has seen a decline in recent days. As a sign of this improvement, classrooms will reopen in Mexico City from June 7.

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While Argentina enter strict quarantine until May 30 to try to stop infections.

This week Argentina broke records successively numbers since the start of the pandemic. On Tuesday, the Department of Health confirmed 35,543 new cases and 745 deaths for the coronavirus, a record in both cases. The next day, the number of infections set a new record: 39.652.

Last week, cases increased by an average of 35% nationwide. In the city of Buenos Aires, the increase was 23% week versus week and in the province of Buenos Aires, it was 20%. “We are living through the worst moment of the pandemic,” Alberto Fernández said last night.

Among the regions of the world, Europe is the most affected with 1,118,515 deaths and 52,257,202 infections; Latin America, 998,251 and 31,461,832; United States and Canada, 613,643 and 34,402,925; East Asia, 434,304 and 33,837,688; Middle East, 139,420 and 8,354,448; Africa, 127,484 and 4,732,254, and Oceania, 1,094 and 47,432.