Brazil has overtaken India and is the second country with the most coronavirus cases in the world

Brazil, the current global epicenter of the pandemic, has overtaken India in number of infections and assumed second country with the most cases of the disease in the world, just behind the United States.

The Latin American giant, which is also the second in number of coronavirus deaths in the world also after the United States, recorded 85,663 new infections on Friday, the second highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic, with what has accumulated 11,336,380 infected.

With this number, Brazil had already overtaken India in number of infected until Friday, since the Asian country then had 11,308,846 cases, but the Indian government has already disclosed its total of new cases on Saturday (24,882) , with which its accumulated to date (11 333 728) was also lower than that of Brazil.

According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, The United States remains the first country in number of covid infections in the world, with 29.35 million cases, now followed by Brazil (11.36 million), India (11.33 million), Russia (4.33 million), United Kingdom (4.26 million), France (4.07 million) and Spain (3.18 million).

As the pandemic is uncontrollable in Brazil and stabilizing in India, the trend is that the difference between the South American nation and the Asian nation in the number of cases continues to increase in the coming days.

This is because the average number of cases over the past week in Brazil hit a record high on Thursday, 70,593 per day, jumping 55.25% from the weekly average measured a month ago. (45,470 daily infections on February 12).

Brazil ranked second in the number of infections globally for several weeks, but was overtaken by India last September, when that country suffered a resurgence of the pandemic.

Regarding the number of deaths, the figures in Brazil are also expected to continue to grow in the coming days, according to the current case fatality curve of the pandemic in the country.

The country recorded 2,216 new deaths from the disease on Friday, which has led to three consecutive days with more than 2,200 daily casualties and accumulated 275,105 deaths since the start of the health crisis.

Friday was Third highest number of coronavirus deaths in one day in Brazil since the start of the pandemic, after the 2,286 recorded on Wednesday and 2,233 on Thursday, bringing the average number of deaths last week to a record 1,762 per day.

The average number of deaths in Brazil last week was 65.47% higher than the average of a month ago (1,065 daily victims on February 12), confirming that the pandemic continues to worsen in Brazil as it tends to stabilize in much of the world.

According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the list of countries with the most COVID-19 deaths also leads the United States (532,593) and Brazil (275,105), followed by Mexico (193,851), India (158446) and the United Kingdom. (125,580) and Italy (101,564).

The high averages of recent days confirm that Brazil is currently undergoing a new wave of pandemic, more virulent and deadly, in part caused by the circulation of new strains of the virus, including the Brazilian variant that originated in the Amazon and which researchers say is three times more contagious than the original.

Brazil, with its 210 million inhabitants, has just under 3% of the world’s population, but accumulates 10.4% of deaths from the coronavirus worldwide and 9.5% of the total infected.

The percentage of infected Brazilians stands at 15% of the global total if only data from the last two weeks are taken into account, according to a report released on Friday by the organization Médecins sans frontières (MSF).

(With information from EFE)

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