Here's the latest on the global Covid-19 crisis: 🇺🇸 US report concludes Covid-19 leak from Wuhan lab 'plausible' – WSJ 🇭🇹 Haiti postpones constitutional referendum, citing pandemic 🇧🇷 Brazil sees over 1,000 new deaths For more:
Peter Ben Embarek, a member of the WHO team tasked with investigating the origins of COVID-19, attends the WHO-China joint study news conference at a hotel in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 9, 2021.
The South American country has now registered 16,984,218 cases since the pandemic began, while the death toll has risen to 474,414, according to ministry data, in the world's third worst outbreak outside the United States and India and its second-deadliest.Mexico has reported 881 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country and 34 more fatalities, bringing total infections to 2,434,562 and the death toll to 228,838, according to Health Ministry data.
Separate government data recently published suggests the real death toll may be at least 60% above the confirmed figure. Haiti has announced that it will postpone a constitutional referendum that had been scheduled for June 27 due to the coronavirus pandemic, but did not give a new date for the vote.
The decision was motivated by "difficulties" the electoral council faced as it tries "to assemble and train all the temporary staff for the realisation of the poll," said an official statement.
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