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Posted: Friday, April 16, 2021. 6:21 pm CST.

By Aaron Humes: COVID-19 continues its grim march across the world, especially the Americas, the Pan American Health Organization warned this week.

1.3 million more were added to the rolls of the infected and 36 thousand to the rolls of the dead, joining 57 million total infections and 1.3 million total deaths, but asked Director of PAHO Dr Carissa Etienne, do we care at this point?

“We are not acting like a region in the midst of a worsening outbreak,” Dr. Etienne warned during a media briefing this week. “Despite ongoing transmission in many places, restrictions have relaxed. Crowds are back, and people are gathering indoors and taking public transportation, often without masks,” she continued.

She said new, highly transmissible variants are also fueling acceleration.

Describing South America as the continuing “epicenter,” Dr. Etienne reported that new COVID-19 cases are sharply increasing in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, and some areas of Bolivia. Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile are experiencing continuing increases in infections. New variants in the Guyanas have driven a rise in cases in French Guiana and Guyana.

New infections are increasing in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and smaller Caribbean islands such as Curacao, Bermuda, and Aruba. Cases also continue to increase in Canada.

 

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