Uncontrolled Covid-19 in Brazil: for the first time more than 100,000 cases were recorded in one day – economic, financial and economic news

Brazil recorded 100,158 new cases of coronavirus on Thursday, exceeding for the first time since the start of the pandemic the level of 100,000 infections in a single day, according to data from the Ministry of Health.

Thus, the total number of cases in the country rose to 1,2320,169, the second highest level in the world, behind only United States. The previous daily record was 90,570 infections recorded on March 19.

In addition, the ministry also reported 2,777 new deaths Due to Covid-19, bringing the total number of deaths in the country to 303,462, also the second highest figure in the world.

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Entities such as the National Association of Private Hospitals (which brings together some of the most important medical institutions in the country, such as Albert Einstein and Sirio Libans Hospital) and the Brazilian Federation of Hospitals (which brings together some 4,200 centers), warned that the stock of medicine for intubation (sedatives, pain relievers and muscle relaxants, among others) It’ll be over in the next three or four days.

“Everything in Srio [Hospital Sirio Libans] We used all the pure sedatives, and now we’re starting to dilute it because we don’t have them, ”a nurse technician told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.

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Earlier, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said that within the next 40 days the government hopes to vaccinate one million people per day. But the worsening pandemic llev al central bank to slightly cut the growth projections of economic growth for this year from 3.8% to 3.6%, due to “the above-usual uncertainty” around the pace of the recovery.

Yesterday, Brazil exceeds 300,000 deaths from Covid-19 after a new daily record of 3,251 deaths. Wednesday, during his first lecture as Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga He said vaccines, masks and social distancing are key to tackling the virus and no one wants lockdowns, especially since Brazilians are unlikely to adhere to it.

Paraguay says Brazilian variant is already circulating in the country

the Brazilian variants of the P1 and P2 coronaviruses circulate in various regions of Paraguay and will be the cause of the high number of infections in recent weeks, the Ministry of Health, who is also wary of the presence of the British variant.

Paraguay, which shares a vast border with Brazil, I received a report containing the results of samples taken from infected patients between January and February. The report confirmed local studies of the so-called worrying variants, particularly P1 which has emerged in the Manaus region in northeastern Brazil and is more contagious.

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“Today, the situation is that in Paraguay, in different departments of the country, worrying variants circulate, the Brazilian variant”Guillermo Sequera, director of health surveillance at the Ministry of Public Health, said at a press conference.

“This is probably the majority variant in circulation,” added the official, who has so far ruled out a local variant and said he has suspicions about the UK variant B.1.1.7. “In the full sequencing study, this was not reported, so we can’t say for sure,” he said.

The Case of Covid-19 in Paraguay they rose sharply in March, leaving health services to collapse. The occupancy rate of intensive care beds is 100%, according to the Paraguayan government, which decreed a strict quarantine at Easter to slow the rate of infections. The country has already passed the 200,000 case mark and deaths from Covid stand at 3,869.