Coronavirus: Brazil exceeds 400,000 deaths due to covid-19 | Society

Brazil has passed 400,000 deaths from covid-19. The country, mired in a serious health situation and slow vaccination, recorded its first death from coronavirus on March 12, 2020. After 14 months, health authorities counted 401,186, as reported on Thursday. Deaths from covid in Brazil represent 13% of those recorded worldwide.

Jair Bolsonaro’s management as the head of the pandemic has led Brazil to be the second country with the most deaths from covid-19, only behind the United States with around 570,000 deaths, according to data from the World Organization health (WHO).

This Thursday alone, Brazil’s health ministry added about 70,000 new infections and 3,000 new deaths. The start of 2021 was a big blow for Brazil. From January to April, the country recorded 14.6 million cases of contagion, double the number of 2020: 7.7 million, according to the agency Efe.

Bolsonaro began by trivializing the epidemic as “the flu”. The Brazilian president even declared that “you have to die of something” and, to his compatriots frightened by the death certificates, he blurted out a month ago: “Stop complaining and whining”. Only complaints from the public of the economy class convinced him of the need to promote vaccination. And it was these same demands that created the environment for the Supreme Court to order the Senate to open a commission of inquiry.

Brazil records more than 400,000 deaths from Covid-19, in pictures

A study coordinated by the European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) concluded that infections caused by the three covid variants that have worried authorities most in recent months – Britain, South Africa and Brazil – are more serious. clinical images than the others circulating on the continent. The Brazilian multiplies the risk of requiring hospitalization by 2.6 and 2.2 to enter an intensive care unit (ICU).

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