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US President Donald Trump has said that Democratic-run states - known as blue states - are to blame for America's high coronavirus death toll.

“If you take the blue states out,” Mr Trump said at a White House briefing earlier this week, “we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at. We’re really at a very low level.”

He repeated a similar claim at a rally in Wisconsin on Thursday.

“Take New York and some of these other Democrat-run states out of it, you’ll see numbers that are unbelievable.”

The Democratic National Committee tweeted in response: “Covid isn't a red state or blue state issue.”

Out of the five states that have the largest numbers of coronavirus deaths two are Republican-run "red states" - Texas and Florida.

It's true that in the early stage of the outbreak states run by the Democrats like New York and New Jersey were the worst hit.

But as the pandemic has progressed, Republican-led states have contributed a greater proportion of fatalities.

The Washington Post has calculated that so far, 53% of deaths have occurred in blue states and 47% in red ones. , external

It’s also difficult to compare states, because they've taken different approaches to locking down, and they have different demographic breakdowns, including on age, race and social class.

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South Africa is no longer among the five countries most affected by coronavirus, according to the World Health Organization.

Peru now has the fifth highest number of confirmed Covid-19 cases, with 663,437 reported by Wednesday.

South Africa, which accounts for half of all the cases confirmed in Africa, has had 630,595 cases.

Although South Africa is still the hardest hit country in Africa, it has experienced a sustained decline in new cases for the past six weeks.

South Africa has been reporting fewer new cases daily compared to Peru in recent days.

The death toll in Peru is also higher at 29,259 compared to South Africa’s 14,263.

Total cases in Africa have been on a downward trend for about a month, although it is too early to celebrate, says Africa Centres for Disease Control head John Nkengasong.

Over the past month, there has been an overall 14% decrease in the number of new cases being reported each week on the continent.

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