Argentina is the most affected country in the region, with about 140,000 injuries per day, in addition to an average of 96 daily deaths.
The country, with a population of 45 million, has recorded about seven million infections and more than 117,000 deaths since the start of the epidemic.
The average daily new cases in Latin America are 304 thousand, which is about double the previous record toll in the last wave in the region, when 155,000 daily injuries were recorded between May 28 and June 3, 2021.
The last week saw an increase of 126 percent, compared to the previous seven days.
The number of deaths also rose, although not to the levels of the previous wave.
The daily death rate reached 621 between January 7 and 13, an increase of 44 percent over the previous seven days, and far from the record daily death toll of more than 5,500 cases between April 6 and 12, 2021.
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