South America has become new COVID-19 epicenter, WHO says

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• THe World Health Organization announced Friday that South America has become a new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Brazil has taken a hard hit from the coronavirus, which causes the respiratory illness known as COVID-19, and authorities have approved the use of hydroxychloroquine — an anti-malarial drug — as a treatment, despite lack of sufficient evidence that it works.
• Meanwhile, the WHO said some African countries are seeing an uptick in coronavirus cases, but the death toll has remained relatively low.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - South America has become a new epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic with Brazil hardest-hit, while cases are rising in some African countries that so far have a relatively low death toll, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.

"The COVID-19 pandemic today reached a milestone in Africa, with more than 100,000 confirmed cases. The virus has now spread to every country in the continent since the first case was confirmed in the region 14 weeks ago," the WHO said in a statement, noting there were 3,100 confirmed deaths on the vast continent.

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