From January 7th to 13th, an average of 304,000 new infections were detected in the region every day. This was the result of a calculation by the AFP news agency based on information from the authorities. That is almost twice as much as the previous record of 155,000 new infections per day in the Corona wave in the region in May/June 2021.
The number of daily corona deaths has also increased significantly in the past seven days: with an average of 621 deaths per day, the increase compared to the previous week was 44 percent.
However, the number of victims of the current corona wave is not as high as in the previous wave. From April 6th to 12th, more than 5,500 corona deaths were reported daily in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The country most severely affected by the pandemic is Argentina. In the past seven days, it has reported an average of almost 140,000 new infections every day. Since the beginning of the pandemic, almost seven million corona infections and more than 117,000 deaths have been registered in the country of 45 million inhabitants.