Brazilian authorities confirmed the notification of 10,100 new cases of the disease on Sunday, which raised to 5,545,705 the number of infections by the new coronavirus confirmed in the country since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to the Ministry of Health, 4,980,942 infected people have already recovered from the disease, while 404,689 infected people are under medical supervision.
The states of São Paulo (39,331), Rio de Janeiro (20,611), Ceará (9,360) and Minas Gerais (9,038) have the highest number of deaths caused by the pandemic in Brazil.
Considering the number of cases, São Paulo (1,117,147), Minas Gerais (359,991), Bahia (354,043) and Rio de Janeiro (311,014) are the ones that add up to more infections so far.
The Minister of Health of Brazil, Eduardo Pazuello, was released today from the hospital DF Star, in Brasília.
Pazuello confirmed that he had a positive diagnosis for covid-19 ten days ago and was admitted last Friday (30th) after tests indicated a condition of dehydration.
In the early afternoon, hundreds of supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro protested in São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, against the mandatory vaccination that the regional government said it wanted to implement when authorized to administer vaccines against covid-19.
Wielding flags of Brazil, protesters gathered in front of the city’s Museum of Modern Art, located on Avenida Paulista, a traditional meeting place for protests in São Paulo.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed almost 1.2 million deaths and more than 46 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report 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.
Brazil is the second country in the world with the most deaths from covid-19, after the United States, where there are more than 230 thousand confirmed deaths.
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