Of the 183,000 new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, 60 percent are from the Americas, where the numbers of infections and deaths continues to rise.
FRANCE 24’s chief foreign editor Robert Parsons says the reasons for the virus’ rapid spread on the continent is due in part to a lack of healthcare, overcrowding, and low rates of testing.
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