Rio de janeiro Brazil /
The total deaths from covid-19 in seven days in Brazil has reached its lowest level since the start of the pandemic, according to the research site Our World in Data.
In the seven days until November 1, the country registered 2 thousand 188 deaths (a level not seen since April 2020) while the vaccination campaign spreads more and more.
After a slow start, the largest country in Latin America has already fully vaccinated more than 50% of its population. The percentage is even higher in some large cities, such as Sao Paulo, where practically 100% of the adult population has received at least one dose and more than 90% is fully vaccinated. And a higher percentage of Brazilians have received at least one dose, compared to Americans, according to the site.
That has caused virus-related deaths to drop in the South American country in the last four months. So far, the experts’ concern that Brazil would have a new peak of infections has not materialized by the spread of the delta variant.
The country’s current daily cases are just one-tenth of the terrible April 2021 peak.. That increase, coupled with outrage over the way President Jair Bolsonaro has responded to the pandemic, prompted a commission to be formed in the Senate to investigate the government’s actions.
After six months of hearings, the commission recommended last week that Bolsonaro and dozens of others face criminal charges.
Its nearly 1,300-page report highlighted the government’s slow response to respond to the offer from pharmaceutical companies. to buy millions of vaccines, as well as Bolsonaro’s insistent promotion of dubious treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that scientists long determined to be ineffective.
The Brazilian president has denied doing wrong and presents himself as someone brave that ignored political correctness and recommendations from global health experts that would have hurt the economy and hurt the poor.
Brazil has registered about 609 thousand deaths from coronavirus, the second most in the world after the United States.
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