Just before carnival they recorded the worst weekly average of COVID-19 deaths in Brazil

Brazil closed a week with a record number of deaths from COVID-19 in the average deaths over the past seven days, which stood at 1,102 deaths on Sunday, while the total has reached 239,294 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

These are figures from the Brazilian media consortium that have been monitoring the impact of the pandemic from the start, after considering that the balance provided by the government does not reflect reality.

According to their figures, this assumes the moving average of deaths is the highest since the start of the pandemic in Brazil, which takes three weeks with an average of over 1,000 deaths per day.

This Sunday’s media report reveals that 9,833,695 Brazilians have had or have the coronavirus, of which 22,440 were confirmed in the last day.

For its part, the Brazilian Ministry of Health has confirmed 713 deaths in the past 24 hours, with a death toll of 239,245. It was the first time in nearly a week that the number of deaths per day fell below a thousand, but according to the authorities themselves, the drop could be due to the fact that on weekends the number of people working on the count is reduced. The data.

In any case, specialists consider that the data on the pandemic could worsen in the next two weeks, among other factors due to the virtual carnival holidays that the country has been experiencing since last Friday and which will last until next Wednesday. .

Although parades of samba schools and comparsas have been canceled across the country to avoid the crowds, many Brazilians have turned to the beaches of the country’s vast sea coast.

In many spas the beaches were full and in most cases dozens of people were seen crammed together without any distance and in most cases without using the proper mouth masks.

In the main cities of the country, such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro or Belo Horizonte, there were also many clandestine parties that came to gather hundreds of people who did not respect the preventive measures, and who ended with the intervention. of the police. authorities.

In addition, this weekend, health authorities increased concern about the new variant of the coronavirus that emerged in the Amazon, after confirming the first contagion of this mutation in a person from Sao Paulo who had not left this region. city ​​in recent years.

The Ministry of Health had already warned this week that the new Amazonian variant had already spread throughout “the whole country” and that, according to initial analyzes, it is “three times more contagious” than the original.

(With information from Europa Press and EFE)

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