In the online transmission, Gilson Machado Neto, president of the Brazilian Agency for International Tourism Promotion, also known as Embratur, played the accordion and sang the song “Ave Maria”, at the request of Bolsonaro.
“I wanted to take advantage of Gilson here. I know that many radio programs play ‘Ave Maria’ at this hour. So I would like to pay tribute to all who were victims of the coronavirus and ask Gilson to play ‘Ave Maria'”, said the head of state.
With 1,141 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, Brazil now totals 54,971 fatalities due to the covid-19, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.
Regarding the number of infected, Brazil registered 39,483 new cases, in a total of 1,228,114 people diagnosed with the new coronavirus.
The South American country has already recovered 673,729 infected patients, with 499,414 patients still being monitored, according to the executive.
The lethality of the disease in Brazil, the second country in the world with the most deaths and infections, remains today at 4.5%.
São Paulo remains the focus of the pandemic in the country, officially concentrating 248,587 cases of infection and 13,759 fatalities.
Next are the states of Rio de Janeiro, which has 105,897 infected and 9,450 fatalities, Ceará, which today has 102,126 confirmed cases and 5,875 deaths, and Pará, which officially accounts for 94,036 contagions and 4,748 deaths due to the covid-19.
Brazil has an incidence of 26.2 deaths and 584.4 cases of the disease per 100,000 inhabitants, in a nation with an estimated population of 210 million people, the Government said.
A consortium formed by the Brazilian press, which decided to collaborate in the collection of information from state health departments, reported that the country registered 1,180 deaths and 40,673 new ones infected by the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
In total, the consortium formed by the main media in Brazil indicated that the country totaled 1,233,147 cases and 55,054 fatalities since the beginning of the pandemic, figures higher than those advanced by the executive.
The consortium’s balance sheet did not include data from Amazonas, which did not send its figures in time for the count to end.
To deal with the pandemic, Bolsonaro said, in his online transmission, that the Government could pay three more installments of emergency aid, allocated monthly to informal workers [sem contrato de trabalho] and on their own, hit by the new coronavirus crisis.
The monthly subsidy, in the amount of 600 reais (about 99 euros) and which was announced in March, will now be gradually reduced, with installments of 500, 400 and 300 reais (83, 66 and 49 euros, respectively), according to Bolsonaro.
Subsequent to this payment, aid to informal workers should be terminated, due to the high cost of the measure for the State coffers.
The Ministry of Health also informed that, starting next Monday, it will deploy 21 health professionals, in addition to medical equipment, to strengthen care for indigenous peoples from the Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol lands, in Roraima.
“This is the Government’s 5th mission in indigenous lands, reinforcing the executive’s commitment to the health of all Brazilians. The Yanomami and Raposa Serra do Sol lands have a population of around 75,000 indigenous people,” said the guardianship at social network Twitter, adding that the entire medical team will check the new coronavirus before boarding, in order to protect native peoples, sensitive to respiratory diseases.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed nearly 484,000 deaths and infected more than 9.5 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
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