Brazil registered 1,242 new deaths from covid-19 in the last 24 hours, bringing the number of deceased moves toward 200,000, at a time when a second wave of the virus takes boom in the country, reported this Wednesday, January 6, 2021 the government.
According to the most recent newsletter of the Ministry of Health, the fatalities from the new coronavirus already total 198,974, while the contagions close to 7.9 million.
Since the confirmation of the first case of the virus, on February 26, 2020, the number of infected in the South American giant has already reached 7,873,830.
Only between Tuesday and Wednesday, Brazil added 63,430 new cases, the fourth highest number of infections since record recorded on December 16 (70,570), the cases recorded on the 17th of the same month (69,830) and the 69 070 that were recorded on July 29.
The figures confirm Brazil, with its 210 million inhabitants, as one of the main epicenters of the pandemic on the planet, placing it as the second country in the world with the most deaths from covid, after the United States, and as the third with the most infections of the virus, behind from the US and India.
Despite the figures, the Government indicates that more than 7 million people have recovered from the disease, representing 89.4% of those who have suffered from the disease.
Another 638,326 patients are under medical supervision in hospitals or in their residences after having tested positive in clinical tests.
Brazilian Amazon, on red alert
The pandemic is at its highest peak in the entire Brazilian Amazon region, affecting mainly the states of Amazonas, Pará, Roraima and Tocantins, where public health systems are collapsing.
To face the situation, especially in the state of Amazonas, the most affected by the virus, the Ministry of Health announced a series of actions to strengthen the public health system in its capital, Manaus.
Among them are the reorganization of health posts, the hiring of more personnel and the opening of new Intensive Therapy Units (ICU).
According to the ministry, the hiring of about 200 doctors and 300 nurses has already begun and 78 more respirators will be sent to Manaus, where 178 new ICUs are also expected to open.
“It will be a difficult AO”
Despite the fact that the Ministry of Health has denied that the country is facing a second wave of the pandemic, several Governments regional governments have been admitting it since the pandemic worsened in Brazil.
Such is the case of the governor of Sao Paulo, Joao Doria, who requested this Wednesday the collaboration of all mayors to face the new wave of covid that is hitting the country.
Sao Paulo, with more than 46 million population, is the most populated region in Brazil and the main epicenter of the pandemic in the country with about 1.5 million cases and about 48,000 deaths, of which 289 occurred in the last 24 hours.
Doria accepted this Wednesday that the country entered a second peak of the pandemic and pointed out that that is why 2021 will be “a difficult year.”
“The compassion of mayors and government officials must be a priority. We will have a difficult year, much more difficult than we imagined until last October. But it will pass, if we have the ability to act with the principle of defending life,” he said during a virtual meeting held with the mayors of the state of São Paulo.
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