Confirmation that the severity of the pandemic in Brazil is declining was made this Friday in Geneva by Michael Ryan, director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Sanitary Emergencies Program, who said that the transmission of the new coronavirus in that country begins to show trends of “stabilization or decline”.
“The situation in Brazil has stabilized somewhat in terms of the number of infections detected per week and certainly the pressure must have eased in intensive care services,” said Ryan, in a press conference.
The acceleration in the number of cases has stopped in several regions and there is a “clear drop” in others, added the official of the World Health Organization, stressing that if Brazil, the country most affected by the pandemic in Latin America, halted the transmission of the virus quickly , that would be “a success for the world”.
According to the director of the WHO emergency program, Brazil is going through a crucial phase “in which it seems that things can improve”. In this sense, the official encouraged local authorities to take the time to do whatever is necessary to confirm this trend.
Until last week, the daily average number of fatal victims of SARS-CoV-2 in Brazil was over a thousand, with more than 40 thousand new cases of daily infection, but these numbers have decreased slightly, with the daily balance of deaths now below of a thousand.
According to the Ministry of Health of Brazil, the central-west region of the country is the only one that continues to register an increase in the average number of deaths, mainly in the federative units of Goiás and the Federal District, with the most pronounced reductions in the northeast, with the exception of the state of Bahia.
With 210 million inhabitants, more than 8.5 million square kilometers and an immense variety of landscapes, climates and socioeconomic conditions, Brazil has been greatly affected by the pandemic for months, which has aggravated the economic situation and the increase in unemployment .
To face the situation, President Jair Bolsonaro announced Friday that he will extend until December the subsidy that his government created for the poorest and unemployed affected by the pandemic, although with a different value, which has not yet been defined.
Since April, Bolsonaro’s executive has allocated a monthly subsidy of 600 reais (90.5 euros) to the most needy.
So far 113,358 people have died from covid-19 in Brazil, with more than three and a half million cases of infection by the new coronavirus having been registered in the country since February 26, making it the second country in the world most affected by disease, just behind the United States.
The trend of falling contagions now confirmed by WHO is good news, and a hope that the situation will improve in the near future.
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