Coronavirus cases in Latin America, the region of the world worst-affected by the pandemic, exceeded 6 million and continued to accelerate, according to a Reuters tally, as most of its nations begin to relax lockdown measures.
The region, which has reported an average of more than 86,000 daily infections of the new coronavirus in the last seven days and more than 2,600 Covid-19 deaths, reached 6,000,005 confirmed cases by Friday evening and 237,360 deaths.
