Brazil has registered 407 new deaths in 24 hours due to coronavirus, a record figure since the start of the epidemic, bringing to 3,313, the total death toll in this country, said Thursday the Ministry of Health. The number of people infected now approaches 50,000 with 49,492 cases, added the ministry.
The death curves and new cases remain ascending in a country where President Jair Bolsonaro regularly shows his impatience with the restrictive measures decided by the governors of the states that make up Brazil. New Health Minister Nelson Teich, who took office on Friday after the controversial sacking of his predecessor, said it was premature to attribute the increase in the number of deaths to an upsurge in Covid-19 disease. also be an increase in tests now performed.
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Wednesday, Nelson Teich had said that the government of the first Latin American economy was working on a plan to restart activity, in accordance with the wishes of President Bolsonaro, very critical of the containment which he considers to be paralyzing the economy. Sao Paulo, the state most affected with a third of the cases of coronavirus, plans to resume gradually and by sectors economic activities from May 11. The states of Rio de Janeiro or Minas Gerais (south-east) are also preparing similar measures, while the federal district of Brasilia and the state of Santa Catarina (south) have already reopened certain activities.