브라질, 하루 3만명씩 확진…100만명 '눈 앞'<br /><br />The number of COVID-19 cases worldwide has reached eight-point-three million.<br />The virus is spreading quickly in the Middle East as well as in Brazil, which now has the world's second highest number of confirmed cases and deaths.<br />Eum Ji-young reports.<br />The total number of coronavirus cases reported around the world has surpassed eight-point-three million. And according to Johns Hopkins University on Wednesday local time, the outbreak has killed at least 448-thousand people around the world.<br />Coronavirus cases and deaths across Brazil are rising fast. The country now has more than 950-thousand total cases, the world's second highest behind the United States.<br />Brazil reported on Tuesday local time a record 34,918 new cases during a 24-hour period.<br />Brazilian health officials also reported 1,282 COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday bringing the death toll in the country to at least 45,241.<br />"Brazil has 23% of all cases and 21% of all deaths in our region and we are not seeing transmission slowing down. That is the case in almost all countries in Latin America and a few in the Caribbean are rising."<br />The pandemic is also spreading rapidly in the Middle East.<br />Saudi Arabia on Wednesday saw 4,919 new COVID-19 cases, bringing its total to over 141-thousand, with more than 1-thousand deaths.<br />Also, the number of confirmed cases in the two worst-hit countries in the region, Iran and Turkey, is not slowing down.<br />Meanwhile, hundreds of flights in and out of Beijing were canceled and a so-called "soft lockdown" was placed on the Chinese capital as authorities tried to curb the sudden outbreak.<br />Chinese health officials reported 28 new COVID-19 cases in mainland China on Wednesday, with 21 of them coming from Beijing.<br />Eum Ji-young, Arirang News.<br />
