Brazil accounted for 1,910 deaths due to covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest number since the beginning of the pandemic and which brings the total to 259,271 fatalities, the Brazilian government said.
This is the second consecutive record of deaths that Brazil has recorded in 48 hours. On Tuesday, the South American country totaled 1,641 deaths, down 269 compared to today’s figures.
At the moment when several health experts say that this is the worst moment of the crisis in Brazil, the Nation, with about 212 million inhabitants, still registered 71,704 new cases of infection in the last 24 hours, the second highest number ever , after January 7, when there were 87,843 diagnoses of covid-19.
In total, Brazil has concentrated 10,718,630 cases of infection since the pandemic arrived in Brazilian territory, just over a year ago.
The data are part of the latest epidemiological bulletin released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, and show a second wave of the pandemic that was more pronounced than the first, which peaked in mid-July.
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