Endless escalation in Brazil: new record of daily deaths from coronavirus

BRASILIA.- Brazil faces its most difficult week in its fight against Covid-19. Today 1972 more deaths have been recorded, a number that surpassed the previous record, which had been last Wednesday (1910). The President’s Advisory Committee Jair Bolsonaro estimates that if the necessary precautions are not taken, the daily death toll from the coronavirus could exceed 3,000 in the coming weeks.

It was only between March 1 and March 7 that 10,482 deaths were recorded, a figure that exceeds the deaths recorded in the first 72 days of the pandemic, between February and April 2020, when there were 10,022 death, published today. leaf by S. Pablo.

The report notes that last week there were a record number of deaths in nine of the country’s 27 states and the situation tends to worsen in the coming days due to the saturation of hospitals and the lack of vaccines. Today, Brazil has reached 268,370 deaths from Covid-19.

The moving average, which measures the average number of cases over the past seven days, was 1,540, which marked a new record. On the other hand, the total number of infections recorded today stands at 11,122,429.

The sum of the lack of beds in intensive care units and President Bosonaro’s resistance to social distancing measures nationwide has experts feared of an imminent collapse of the second country’s health system.

ANSA and AFP agencies

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