Originally posted by the Voice of America. Voice of America content is produced by the Voice of America, a United States federal government-sponsored entity, and is in the public domain. Argentina Now Has 1 Million Confirmed COVID-19 Cases VOA News Argentina is now the world's fifth country with more than one million confirmed COVID-19 cases. Data collected by Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center shows the South American country has 1,002,662 total cases. Argentina is in fifth place behind the United States (8.2 million), India (7.5 million), Brazil (5.2 million) and Russia (1.4 million). The one million coronavirus cases in Argentina include 26,716 deaths. The new figures from Argentina push the total number of worldwide coronavirus infections to more than 40.4 million cases, including 1.1 million deaths. .