Brazil, one of the three countries in the world most affected by the pandemic of the new coronavirus in absolute numbers next to U.S e India, walk towards ten million cases confirmed less than a year after detecting the first infection, as reported this Wednesday, February 10, 2021 by the government.
In his most recent epidemiological bulletin, the Ministry of Health disclosed that in the last 24 hours there were 59,602 cases and 1,330 deaths, a figure similar to that of Tuesday and that maintain Brazil with an average of more than a thousand deaths a day in recent weeks, intensifying the so-called second wave of the pandemic.
From the first contagion, on February 26, and from the first death, on March 12, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 9,659,167 confirmed cases and totals 234,850 deaths.
According to the official report, in the nation of just over 210 million inhabitants 8,596,130 patients have recovered from the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which represents 89% of all infected.
Another 828,187 patients are in medical accompaniment in hospitals or their residences after having given positive in clinical trials.
Thus, the country registers a mortality rate of 112 deaths and one incidence of 4 596 people infected per 100,000 inhabitants.
The state of Sao Paulo, the most populated in the country with 46 million inhabitants and located in the southeast region, continues to be the region with the most confirmed cases (1,878,802) and deaths (55,419).
In the days before Carnival, the most popular festival in the country and that was canceled in most of the cities, the related activities With this event, in particular tourism, they feel the effects of the crisis in the sector caused by the pandemic.
For the first time in its history Rio de Janeiro it will not have its pompous carnival -which would begin this Friday- and the economic consequences of its cancellation to prevent a further spread of the covid carry losses estimated by merchants at 2,700 million reais (509 million dollars).
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