Brazil unrelenting: 2,922 deaths and 70,238 COVID-19 infections recorded in last 24 hours

Brazil added around 3,000 deaths and more than 70,000 cases of covid-19 this Good Friday in the past 24 hours, after closing the deadliest March since the start of the pandemic.

According to the latest bulletin from the Department of Health, the South American country, most affected by the pandemic today, accounted for a total of 2,922 deaths and 70,238 infections in the last 24 hours.

Thus, Brazil, a nation of 210 million inhabitants, is already registering a total of 328,206 deaths from covid-19 and 12,910,082 cases since the start of the health crisis, a little over a year ago.

The Latin American giant is going through the worst phase of the pandemic and over the past week he has made several records of deaths and infections, at a time when hospitals across much of the country are collapsing or are on the verge of collapse, including those in Sao Paulo.

According to the data to which the information portal had access G1, at least 11 people died on the last day in the São Paulo metropolitan area due to the lack of beds in intensive care units (ICU).

Hospitals continue to be on the edge despite restrictive measures imposed by the mayor’s office to stop the movement of people and relieve pressure on the health and funeral system in São Paulo.

For the past week, in the capital of São Paulo and in many cities of the state, the operation of activities deemed non-essential has been prohibited and a night curfew has applied, measures not always respected by all. of the society.

The state of São Paulo, the most populous in the country with 46 million inhabitants and the most affected by the pandemic today, surpassed the threshold of 2.5 million cases of covid-19 on Saturday, after counting 16 762 infections in the last 24 hours.

São Paulo also has 76,552 deaths, of which 818 were recorded on the last day, after reaching the tragic mark of 1,209 daily deaths from the coronavirus this week.

For its part, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that if he decides to apply the covid-19 vaccine, he will be the “last Brazilian” to do so, as it is his duty to “lead by example” and put himself forward. in the last place. .

“I already had coronavirus. Once the last Brazilian is vaccinated and if there is a vaccine left, I will decide whether to get the vaccine or not., this is the example that a boss must set. Just like in the barracks where the commander is the last in the line, ”Bolsonaro said on his weekly Facebook live show.

The agent, one of the leaders most skeptical of the severity of the pandemic, He has always objected to the mandatory nature of the vaccine, as an area of ​​Congress and the Supreme Court wanted to establish, and he was a staunch critic of some vaccines that he ended up buying due to lack of supply.

Bolsonaro welcomed the approval by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa, regulator) of the emergency use of the vaccine from the Belgian laboratory Janssen, the European branch of the American multinational Johnson & Johnson, and reiterated the goal of vaccinating one million people per day in April.

Brazil, the second country in absolute numbers most affected by covid-19, with more than 328,000 deaths and 12.9 million confirmed cases in thirteen months, with a daily toll of deaths and infections in recent days, He distributed 34 million doses and applied 18 million, according to figures given by Bolsonaro himself.

With information from EFE

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