Tag: 1 million cases

PHL breaches 1M total COVID cases, but 90.9 percent of these already recovered

PHL joins 25 other countries which have over 1 million total COVID-19 cases   (Eagle News) – Philippine COVID-19 cases breached 1 million on Monday, April 26, with the addition of 8,929 cases, the Department of Health reported. Total COVID-19 cases on Monday reached 1,006,428, but most of these, 915,952, are recoveries. In fact, recovered patients accounted for 90.9 percent of total cases, the highest percentage so far since March 10. New recoveries added on Monday […]

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Spain becomes first EU nation with one million virus cases

  by Daniel SILVA Agence France Presse Spain has become the first European Union nation to record a million coronavirus infections, official data showed on Wednesday, as the government mulled fresh restrictions on public life to curb the spread of the disease. The country recorded 16,973 confirmed cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, the health ministry announced, taking the total to 1,005,295 since its first case was diagnosed on January 31 on the […]

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WHO warns of virus danger as Brazil cases hit one million

by Joshua Howat Berger, with Robin Millard in Geneva Agence France Presse RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — The World Health Organization warned Friday of a “new and dangerous phase” of the coronavirus pandemic, as infections continued to surge in the Americas, with Brazil registering more than one million cases. Colombia and Mexico also passed bleak milestones, as their death tolls topped 2,000 and 20,000, respectively, showing how the virus continues ravaging the Americas and […]

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