Coronavirus in Brazil: they recorded 98,000 cases in one day, the second highest figure since the start of the pandemic

Brazil recorded 2,495 new deaths from COVID-19 on Friday, bringing the total number of deaths from the disease in the country to 498,499, the health ministry reported. According to the portfolio, there were also 98,832 new cases of the coronavirus, so the total number of infections in the country rose to 17,801,462.

It’s him second highest number of cases recorded in a single day since the start of the pandemic, just below the mark on March 25 of this year, when they reported 100,158 new infections.

Data collected by the agency Reuters show that, in the midst of this increase in the number of cases, Brazil again leads the daily average for new infections globally, currently responsible for one in five cases globally recorded every day.

In absolute terms, Brazil has the second highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, just behind the United States, and the third highest record for confirmed cases, behind the United States and India.

The Brazilian state most affected by COVID-19 in absolute numbers, São Paulo, reached the mark of 3,552,727 cases and 121,238 deaths. minas Gerais is the second state with the highest number of recorded coronavirus infections, with 1,724,506 cases, but Rio de Janeiro it is the second with the most deaths, with 53,923.

The federal government has also reported that 16,136,968 people have recovered from COVID-19 and there are 1,165,995 patients under follow-up.

The death toll in Brazil is lower than in the United States, where more than 600,000 people have already died. Brazil’s per capita rate is much higher, at 213 million people, two-thirds of the population of the United States.

As of last week, official information reflected some 2,000 daily deaths from COVID-19 in Brazil, a fifth of deaths worldwide. Some experts believe that the increase in the number of deaths per day may reflect the arrival of a third wave of infections.

Bolsonaro has been playing down the virus for 15 months and keeping the economy running. At first he said it was “a little cold” and laughed at the masks. He hasn’t changed even after contracting the virus himself. And he continued to talk about the beauties of hydroxychloriquini long after others promoting it, including Donald Trump, stopped doing it.

Last week, microbiologist Natalia Pasternak, president of the Questão de Ciência Institute, a non-profit organization that promotes the use of scientific evidence in government policies, criticized before the committee the “denial” of reality. He regretted that the myth of hydroxychloroquine continues to spread.

“In the sad case of Brazil, this is a lie orchestrated by the federal government and the Ministry of Health,” he said. “And this lie is killing” people.

With information from Reuters and AP

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