COVID-19 deaths in Latin America race past 100,00

Summary:

More than 100,000 people have now died in Latin American and the Caribbean as the pandemic accelerates
Health experts are saying infection rates still haven’t peaked in many countries
Covid-19 has “brought this nation to its knees” said the director of the US CDC
Robert Redfield’s comments came as about half of US states are seeing a surge in new cases
Health official Anthony Fauci warns of a “disturbing surge” in infections, and calls for increased contact tracing
An outbreak in Germany has sparked fresh lockdowns
World number one tennis player Novak Djokovic has said he is “so sorry” after testing positive
Globally there are now 9.2m cases and almost 477,000 deaths

-BBC

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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