Latin America has leap-frogged Europe to record the second-highest total of coronavirus cases of any continent, and is now second only to North America. There are now more than 2.7million confirmed cases of the virus in Central and Southern America and the Caribbean, narrowly topping the 2.69million in Europe. The rise is largely being driven by a rampant outbreak in Brazil, where the official case total is now just shy of 1.5million. Deaths in both North and Latin America are still lagging behind those in Europe, where the infection has been spreading for longer. The continent has just under 200,000 deaths from the virus while North America has 137,000 and Latin America has 121,000.

Source: Daily Mail July 03, 2020 14:26 UTC