Brazil has passed 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus …

Brazil exceeded 500,000 deaths from Covid-19 this Saturday and experts warn against the imminent arrival of a third wave disease, according to the latest data from a media consortium that is running a parallel registry to that of the Ministry of Health.

According to the consortium, which collected data from the regional health secretariats of the 27 Brazilian states, at 2:15 p.m. local time this Saturday, and without counting all the data for the day, Brazil has accumulated 500,022 deaths from the coronavirus and 17,822 659 people infected.

In addition, the country has recorded 1,401 daily deaths and 20,483 new infections, although those numbers are higher at the end of the day, when the health ministry releases the final toll.

These data confirm that Brazil, with a population of 210 million, is the second country with the most deaths from Covid-19 in the world, only surpassed by the United States, which has a total of 601,500 deaths.

In turn, Brazil is the third country with the most positive cases after the United States, which has 33.5 million positive cases, while in second place is India, with 29.8 million infections.

The epidemiological curve has accelerated further in recent weeks in Brazil and many experts agree that the country is on the verge of a third wave of the pandemic.

The daily average of deaths over the past seven days has passed 2,000, after falling to 1,600 in early June. However, those numbers are still a long way from the 3,000 deaths that were reached on April 12, when the country experienced its phase with the highest number of deaths.

As for positive coronavirus cases, the daily average climbed to 72,000, close to the peak of 77,000 reached on March 25.

Despite the critical situation of the pandemic, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro continues to insist on his denialist position and this week he again assured that contracting the new virus is “more effective than the vaccine”, an idea that has already been denied by the scientific community.