Brazil registers an average of 540 deaths and 185,000 cases of covid per day
Brazil, one of the three countries most affected by the pandemic in the world, currently registers an average of 540 deaths per day from covid and an average of 185,000 cases per day, figures that have been growing rapidly driven by the spread of the omicron variant, reported this Monday the Government. According to data released today by the Ministry of Health, the Latin American giant registered 284 new deaths from coronavirus and 77,947 new infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 627,138 and the accumulated number of cases since the beginning to 25.4 million. of the pandemic, in February 2020. Such figures confirm Brazil as the second country in number of victims of the pandemic, behind the United States, and the third in number of infections, after the US and India. The numbers disclosed this Monday, however, are much lower than those that actually occurred because, as the Ministry acknowledges, many municipalities do not record their figures on Saturdays and Sundays due to the lower number of officials processing the data, so the Statistics are only updated on Tuesdays.
Before the arrival of the omicron in the country, the pandemic seemed neutralized in Brazil with the death and infection averages at their lowest levels in 20 months (92 victims per day on December 26 and 3,101 daily cases on December 22), similar to those at the beginning of the health crisis. The sharp drop in figures until December was attributed to the success of the vaccination campaign, which Brazil began late and slowly in January 2021, but which has allowed 151.8 million Brazilians to have the complete immunization cycle until Monday. (the two doses or the single dose vaccine), which is equivalent to 71.3% of the 213 million inhabitants of the country. (Eph)
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