05/09/2020 - 20:11
- Clarín.com
- World
Brazil registered 730 new deaths from coronavirus on Saturday, so the list of fatalities in the country exceeded 10,000 , out of a total of 155,939 confirmed positive cases.
This was reported by the Government, whose leader Jair Bolsonaro, is in the focus of the questions while insisting on relaxing the restrictions despite the progress of cases and deaths.
According to the report of the Ministry of Health, there are 10,611 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours. It is the Latin American country hardest hit by the pandemic and the sixth in the world in the number of deaths, which now exceed 277,000 worldwide.
Despite being a high number, the scientists project that the real balance of cases could be more than 15 times higher, given the country's inability to carry out generalized tests.
São Paulo, a state in the south-east of Brazil with almost 46 million inhabitants, concentrates more than 3,600 deaths and more than 44,400 cases.
Neighboring Rio de Janeiro, where more than 16 million live, follows with 1,653 deaths and 16,929 infections.
Less populated states like Ceará, Pernambuco (northeast) and Amazonas (north) are already around a thousand dead each.
Resisting pressure from Bolsonaro, who opposes isolation measures due to their impact on the economy, the governors of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro will extend the partial quarantine measures in force since March until the end of May.
After exceeding the 10,000 dead mark, the Brazilian Congress decreed an official mourning period of three days and asked the population to follow the recommendations of the health authorities to reduce the rate of infections while the country prepares for "a safe and definitive return back to normal. "