Brazil records higher number of coronavirus deaths …

Brazil to deal with alarming rebound in coronavirus infections, which could correspond to a third wave. In the past 24 hours, 52,448 positive cases and nearly 2,700 deaths have been reported.

Authorities and specialists have warned that the relatively slow progress in immunization, premature reopening of the economy and the circulation of the Indian variant heralds a new wave of pandemic. Brazil is the second country in terms of the number of deaths from covid.

The number of positives, which brings the total number of infections to 17.03 million, represents a big jump compared to the day before, when 39,712 had been recorded.

On the other hand, the total number of deaths reached 477,307 after adding 2,693 others, the highest figure since May 5, with a moving average of 1,714 per day last week.

Some experts speak of the arrival of a third wave of June more deadly than the first two, since it is part of a much higher plateau of daily deaths.

Others assure that in Brazil it is not possible to speak of waves, because never in the 16 months of the pandemic has the circulation of the virus been stifled until deaths and cases are reduced. at a minimum, as has happened in other countries in the region or in Europe for example.

The Federal Government’s Fiocruz Research Institute reported yesterday that The intensive care occupancy rate increased for the third week in a row for patients infected with covid-19. In 11 of the 27 capitals, the occupancy rate of these rooms exceeded 90 percent, the institute said.

During the dramatic months of March and April, when more than 4,000 people were killed in a single day, nearly all governors imposed the shutdown of non-essential services and nighttime curfews.

However, as soon as the numbers started to drop, the measures were relaxed, experts say, prematurely, as the country of 212 million people nears half a million dead and presents one of the highest death rates per 100,000 population in the world (over 220).

Fiocruz warned that the “easing” of the measures would lead to “an intensification of the pandemic” in the coming weeks.

Applied vaccines

Yesterday, Brazil immunized 1.6 million people against the coronavirus, while receiving a ninth shipment of vaccines from the US laboratory Pfizer.

Some 1.3 million Brazilians received the first dose of a covid 19 vaccine yesterday, the highest number since the vaccination campaign began on January 17, health officials reported. Since 74.2 million AstraZeneca, British, Coronavac, Chinese and Pfizer vaccines have been placed.

So far, 23.3 million people have applied both doses, which is 24% of the Brazilian population.

On the other hand, last night, a batch of 526,500 units of the Pfizer antidote arrived at Viracopos airport, inside São Paulo. This was the ninth shipment of products from this North American laboratory, which has already sent 5.9 million injections, under two sales contracts of 200 million that will be delivered until 2022.

Health Minister Marcelo Queiroga admitted to Congress yesterday that there will be a drop in the vaccination rate in July, given that the flow of imported products is below expectations.