Brazil has reported 4,195 COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, a new record since the start of the pandemic

Brazil registered for the first time more than 4,000 deaths from covid-19 in 24 hours, reported on Tuesday the Ministry of Health of the government of Jair Bolsonaro.

Amid the worsening health crisis, the country of 212 million people recorded 4,195 deaths, with which the total stands at 336,947 deaths in more than thirteen months of pandemic, a balance surpassed only by the United States.

The report of the National Council of Secretaries of Health of Brazil (Conass) also noted, 86,979 new coronavirus infections, with which the total balance of those infected rose to 13,100,580, at a time when the country faces the worst phase of the pandemic.

Brazil is the second country with the most deaths and confirmed cases of the disease, only behind the United States, although it is currently the place on the planet with the most deaths from covid-19, with a average exceeding 2,500 deaths per day.

The previous daily maximum for coronavirus deaths in Brazil was March 31, when it reached 3,869.

The data confirm a worsening of the pandemic in this country of 212 million inhabitants, where The vaccination campaign, which began on January 17, continues at a slow pace, as only 10% of the population received the first dose.

San Pablo, el estado más rico y desarrollado de Brasil, con una población de 46 millones, similar to la de países enteros como Argentina o España, volvió a registrar este martes un nuevo record diario de fallecimientos al llegar a los 1.389 en las últimas 24 Hours.

Almost 90% of intensive care units in the São Paulo region are occupied and in the capital of the same name, given the rising death toll, local authorities were forced to allow nightly burials and hire school buses to transport the corpses.

The same situation is practically experienced in the other 26 states of the country, where the public network of hospitals is at the limit of its capacity and also addresses the lack of essential drugs for the intubation of the most serious patients of covid-19.

In addition, there are concerns about the circulation of variants of the coronavirus considered to be more infectious, such as the one that emerged in the state of Amazonas (north), known as P.1 and already predominant in several states of the countries, such as Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

Of this new variant, which according to the Ministry of Health is “up to three times” more contagious, cases have been detected in 21 of the 27 Brazilian states, and of the British variant in 13 of them, according to the data. of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a leading medical research center in Latin America.

Fiocruz warned on Tuesday in its latest bulletin that the pandemic “could remain at critical levels throughout April”, which would put even more pressure on the nearly collapsed public health system. “The analysis shows that the Sars-CoV-2 virus and its variants continue to circulate intensely throughout the country ”, indicated the institution.

With information from AFP and EFE

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