According to the balance sheet released by the Ministry of Health, the increase in the number of deaths was 14%, from 2,906 deaths on Wednesday to 3,313 today. Regarding the number of infected, the growth was 8.2%, from 45,757 to 49,492 confirmed cases.
According to the tutelage, the lethality rate of covid-19 rose today to 6.7%.
Asked about the record number reached by the South American country today, the new Minister of Health, Nelson Teich, said, in a press conference, he still does not know if it is the result of “an effort to close diagnoses or an upward trend line. ”.
São Paulo continues to lead the list of Brazilian states with the highest number of cases, concentrating 1,345 deaths and 16,740 cases of infection, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 530 fatalities and 6,172 confirmed cases of covid-19.
Globally, according to an AFP report, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 186,000 deaths and infected more than 2.6 million people in 193 countries and territories.
More than 708,000 patients were considered cured.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
To combat the pandemic, governments sent 4.5 billion people home (more than half the world’s population), ended non-essential trade and drastically reduced air traffic, paralyzing entire sectors of the world economy.
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