Brazil on alert: records more than a thousand deaths per day – El Ancasti

Brazil has recorded more than a thousand coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, a figure that has not been exceeded since September 30 and shows the resurgence of the disease in one of the most affected by the pandemic in the world.

According to data released Thursday by the health ministry, Brazil has recorded 1,092 deaths from covid-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease in the country to 184,827.

The last time Brazil recorded more than a thousand daily deaths from the pandemic was on September 30, when 1,031 deaths were recorded.

In the past 24 hours, 69,826 new cases of the disease have also been recorded, slightly lower than the record 70,574 infections recorded on Wednesday and the second highest since the country suffered the first case on February 26.

The high number of new infections on Thursday brought the total number of COVID cases recorded in Brazil to 7,110,434.

Before the number of infections hit a record high on Wednesday, the day with the most cases so far was July 29, four and a half months ago and when 69,070 infections were reported.

Data released this Thursday by the Ministry of Health confirms Brazil, with its 210 million inhabitants, as one of the global epicenters of the pandemic and the second country with the highest number of deaths from covid, after the States United, and the third with more cases, after the United States and India.

The 1,000 deaths recorded on Thursday brought the daily average of covid deaths in Brazil over the past 14 days to 682.64, a jump of 15.07% from the average of a week ago (593.21 deaths per day on October 10 December) and 32.57% compared to two weeks ago (514.93 deaths per day on December 3).

For its part, the daily average of infections over the last 14 days was 44,520 as of Thursday, with a growth of 7.90% compared to the average of a week ago (41,260 cases on December 10) and 23 , 36% compared to two weeks ago (36,090 cases on December 17).