Covid-19: Brazil totals 117,665 dead and exceeds 3.7 million infected – News

Of this total, 1,085 deaths and 47,161 new cases of infection were registered in the last 24 hours, and the Government is still investigating the possibility that 2,889 deaths are related to the disease.

Of the 1,085 deaths notified in 24 hours, 377 occurred in the last three days, according to the tutelage.

Brazil, the second country in the world most affected by the pandemic, is also the second nation with the largest number of recovered patients: 2,908,848. On the other hand, 690,642 infected people are still under medical supervision.

The disease incidence rate in Brazil is 56 deaths and 1,768.8 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, with a lethality rate of 3.2%.

The state of São Paulo (southeast) is the focus of the pandemic in the country, totaling 776,135 people diagnosed and 29,194 fatalities due to the new coronavirus.

This is followed by Bahia (northeast), which concentrates 245,021 confirmed cases and 5,116 deaths, and Rio de Janeiro (southeast), which totals 216,675 infected patients and 15,700 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic, which was officially registered in the country on 26 February.

The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 820,000 deaths and infected more than 23.9 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.

After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.

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