Coronavirus: Brazil records 22 days in a row with record number of deaths

BRAZIL (Reuters) .- Brazil was the second most affected country in the world by the coronavirus pandemic (It is only exceeded by the United States) and the figures for the last few weeks do not show a downward trend, quite the contrary. In the past 24 hours, the nation ruled by Jair Bolsonaro recorded 2,331 deaths from Covid-19 and reached a total of 292,856 people died.

But the proximity to the 300,000 victims is not the data that most worries the authorities but the chain of recorded files. Yesterday’s moving average was 2234 and thus marked the record number 22, followed since February 27. The high death toll has already made March the deadliest month.

According to what was published by the newspaper O Globo, regarding those infected, 72,326 cases have been reported since Friday evening, bringing the total to 11,949,335. Likewise, the moving average was 72,869 positives, 9% of more than the calculation of 14 days ago.

Regarding the coronavirus vaccination, eighteen states and the Federal District updated their data yesterday and confirmed that nationwide, 11,721,357 people received the first doses, which is equivalent to 5.54% of the population. In turn, the second dose was applied to 4,140,109 people, or 1.96%.

The slow progression of vaccination by Brazilians causes inconvenience throughout the country but more than anything in the hardest hit areas, where the health system cannot cope with it. In São Paulo, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás and the Federal District, infections are on the rise and there is no capacity to take care of all the patients.

The warning comes from an analysis conducted by health workers from the UFRJ Institute for Collective Health Studies, Ligia Bahia and Leonardo Mattos. Called “Health system and Covid-19 in Brazil: the announced and neglected collapse”, ensures that the health measures to stop the epidemic must be equal and dictated by the nation, and not in particular by the governors who understand it.

Since the start of the pandemic, Right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro refuses to enact national isolation measures and even claims that the governments that have made such decisions are exaggerated. As several regions of Europe are once again confined by the third wave, the Brazilian leader, who already had coronavirus and has always discredited the severity of the crisis, insists that the economy must come before the disease.

Amid the collapse, the government has been in negotiations since March 13 on the possibility of importing excess doses of vaccines available in the United States, the Foreign Office said on Twitter.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Brazilian Embassy in Washington, in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, are negotiating with the White House, which on Friday announced its intention to “lend” 4 million doses of vaccine to AstraZeneca in Canada and Mexico, that have already been produced.

However, an official of the administration of Joe biden He said the United States has no plans to offer doses to other countries.

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