Brazil passed 4,000 coronavirus deaths in one day – telam

Brazil broke the barrier of 4,000 deaths in one day from the coronavirus on Tuesday for the first time since the start of the pandemic, the health ministry reported.

Amid the worsening health crisis, the South American giant, out of 212 million inhabitants, it has killed 4,195 people in the last 24 hours.

With this figure, the cumulative total rose to 336,947 deaths in more than 13 months of the pandemic, a toll surpassed only by the United States, according to the AFP news agency.

The total number of deaths recorded the day before by Covid-19 is twice as high as the 1,319 that had been reported on Monday, after the Easter holidays and which also resulted in 28,645 cases.

In addition, 86,979 new infections were recorded, bringing the total figure to 13.1 million.

In the first six days of April, the death toll rose to 15,432, continuing the trend of March, the deadliest month yet, with 66,573 deaths, more than double the previous record.

The daily seven-day average is 2,757 deaths.

Brazil surpasses 4,000 coronavirus deaths for first time in 24 hours

Experts say in the coming weeks the nation could face a darker scenario, with hospitals collapsing, vaccination progressing slowly and Jair Bolsonaro’s government rejecting the application of a quarantine, due to its negative economic impacts. .

One of the states hardest hit by the pandemic is São Paulo, which reported 1,389 deaths in one day today, an increase of 1.8% over the period, from cases of 22,794, or about 85% of the historical maximum. last week, with growth of 0.9% the day before, according to the Terra portal.

According to data from the National Data Analysis System (Seade) Foundation, São Paulo, which has totaled more than 2.5 million infections and 78,554 deaths since December 2019, recorded one every week until Monday. 6, 6% in new cases, but deaths increased by 4.3%.

There, school groups have been allowed to transport bodies and nightly burials are underway to meet demand.

Earlier, Brazil’s new Foreign Minister Carlos Frana has pledged “real health diplomacy” due to the urgency of tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, as stated in his inaugural address.

“The first emergency is the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian diplomatic missions and consulates abroad will be more and more involved in genuine health diplomacy”, promised the new minister, according to the Sputnik agency.

“My commitment is to involve Brazil in an intense effort of international cooperation, without exclusions, and to open new avenues of diplomatic action, without preferences of this or that nature,” he noted.

His in-office predecessor, Ernesto Arajo, left the government amid fierce criticism of the full alignment of Brazilian diplomacy with the interests of the then-Donald Trump government in the United States, which ended up undermining the Brazil in access to vaccines against Covid-19.

But Frana said there was now more and more contact with governments and laboratories to map available vaccines and drugs needed to treat patients in the most serious condition.

In order to access as many vaccines as possible, the Minister of Foreign Affairs appreciated the statements of the new Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the need for a “broad consensus” guaranteeing the access to vaccines, with more production and better distribution.

However, he made no progress on whether to change Brazil’s position regarding the proposal to suspend the patents of vaccines presented by India and South Africa in this organization, a proposal rejected by the former leader. diplomacy.

The country began vaccinating in early January, several weeks after the United States, much of European countries and even Argentina and Chile.

In the absence of clear guidelines from the Bolsonaro government, states and cities were left to fend for themselves, faced with many setbacks, frauds and even the suspension of vaccination as happened in Rio de Janeiro or in Salvador, in the absence of doses.

To date, 20 million (9.8% of the population) have received the first dose and 5.8 million (2.7% of the population) the second.