New record for COVID-19 deaths in Brazil: 3,780 in last 24 hours

Brazilian health authorities reported a new record of COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday, with 3780 in the last 24 hours, and 84,490 new infections. The Latin American giant has accumulated 12,658,109 infections and 317,646 deaths.

According to the most recent data from the World Health Organization (WHO), last month the coronavirus made Brazil the new epicenter of the pandemic, with records of deaths and infections almost daily.

Although the United States remains at the top of the list of countries with the highest number of cumulative cases (nearly 30 million) and deaths (over 540,000), Brazil, however, has around 210 million people, compared to 328 million in the United States.

This daily record comes in a week in which Sao Paulo, the most populous city in the country, as well as Rio de Janeiro find their activities very restricted for the holiday decreed by its municipal authorities and which has been in effect since last Friday.

the festive period, which implies the advancement of the holidays planned for the rest of the year until 2022, will be linked to Good Friday, a national holiday in Brazil, and to the following weekend.

But, despite continued calls from the authorities to avoid contact with crowds and collective parties, It was only in Sao Paulo that last weekend police forces detected 450 points where there was an agglomeration of people with a higher number than allowed.

And as a bad sign on the degree of compliance with these restrictions in the state of Rio de Janeiro, in the city of Itaipava, the governor in office, Claudio Castro, gave last Sunday at his home a private birthday party “very well attended”.

According to images released by local media, people without masks and a dozen vehicles were seen at his home at the door of his residence. This despite the fact that, two days earlier, Castro had asked the inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro to stay at home because “it is not the time of the holidays”.

His press office kept abreast of these publications and clarified that only family members attended the acting governor’s birthday party and the vehicles at the gate belonged to them and their escort.

In Brasilia, and after a fortnight when only “essential activities” were allowed, commerce and other sectors resumed operating from Monday, albeit with limited hours. The authorities in the capital maintained the Nighttime curfew imposed two weeks ago, but they relaxed the rest of the restrictive measures, despite the fact that the pandemic curve continues to rise and out of control, with saturated hospitals and intensive care unit (ICU) beds being 95% occupied.

Meanwhile, the vaccination process is late, and Until today, only 10% of the population have received the first dose and 3% the second.

Vaccination is done mainly with the vaccine Coronavac, which comes from the Chinese laboratory Sinovac, and to a lesser extent from Covishield, the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca and the UK University of Oxford.

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