Worrying record of COVID-19 cases in Brazil: more than 110,000 in one day

In the middle of the America’s Cup 2021 and after Jair Bolsonaro continue in your campaign against restrictions due to COVID-19, the Brazilian Ministry of Health has signed a new record of cases. In 24 hours they were recorded 115,228 new cases of coronavirus and is the highest figure since the start of the pandemic. On the other hand, there were also 2,392 deaths.

Over the weekend, Brazil became the second country to exceed half a million deaths from COVID-19. On the other hand, there is also a sharp acceleration in the number of cases that have been recorded in recent weeks. On the other hand, these new figures are published in full America’s Cup and when there are projections of a new “third wave” in this country which could be further aggravated by the arrival of winter in Brazil.

On the other hand, it was also known that there was a new variant called P5 and that it was recognized in Rio de Janeiro, but there are not many details about it.

This new number has thus exceeded the daily maximum that occurred on March 25. As of that day, 100,158 cases of coronavirus had been reported in the country. It is currently third on the list of countries with the most confirmed infections, just behind the United States and India. While it is second in number of confirmed deaths, only behind the United States. So far the the definitively approved vaccines are AstraZeneca / Oxford and Pfizer.

They detect a new strain of COVID in Rio de Janeiro: Brazil already has four

Advance the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemicn throughout Latin America and given the considerable efforts made by the majority of national governments, including Argentina, to speed up the vaccination plan, government in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil announces new bad news: they recently detected a new variant of the coronavirus never reported before. “Until now, we cannot say that [la nueva cepa] is more lethal or transmissible ”than other strains, detailed the Secretary of State for Health.

The new strain of COVID-19 was already called P5, after being registered in the municipality of Porto Real, in the south of the state, a town bordering the state of San Pablo. There, according to health authorities, 19 cases have already been confirmed. While between the two states, the total number of infections is already 25.