(CNN) Latin America has surpassed Europe and the United States in the daily number of reported Covid-19 infections, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Tuesday, putting the region at the center of the global outbreak. PAHO is particularly concerned about Brazil, where the number of new cases reported last week "was the highest for a seven-day period since the outbreak began," Etienne said. Peru and Chile are also reporting a high number of cases, she added, warning that for countries in the region "now is not the time to relax restrictions or scale back preventive strategies." Peru and Chile are among the region's worst hit. They now hold the world's highest infection rates per capita over a seven-day rolling average, according to Our World in Data (OWID) , an independent statistics website headquartered at Oxford University.

Source: CNN May 26, 2020 19:30 UTC