Of this total, 685 deaths and 35,294 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, at which time the covid-19 lethality rate in the country is set at 2.8%.
São Paulo (1,178,075), Minas Gerais (385,427), Bahia (375,374) and Rio de Janeiro (330,009) are the Brazilian states with the highest number of infections.
The federative units with the most deaths are São Paulo (40,749), Rio de Janeiro (21,474), Minas Gerais (9,531) and Ceará (9,448).
The transmission rate of the new coronavirus in Brazil, the Portuguese-speaking country most affected by the pandemic and one of the hardest hit in the world, rose again, according to data from Imperial College London, a reference in the monitoring of epidemics.
The index registered in the South American country is now 1.10, that is, every 100 infected people transmit the virus to another 110, which, in turn, transmit it to another 109, progressively reducing the scope of the disease.
The contagion rate is one of the main references to monitor the epidemiological evolution of covid-19, and now shows an increase in this indicator in Brazil, after several weeks of decline.
Last week, Imperial College London indicated that Brazil reached the lowest value since April: 0.68.
In Brazil, 5,361,592 diagnosed citizens have already recovered from the disease and 383,467 infected patients are under medical supervision.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,328,048 deaths resulting from more than 55 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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