Brazil recorded an average of daily deaths from Covid-19 on Saturday over seven days, less than 1,000. This is a first for more than seven months and due to the advance of vaccination.
The latest report from the Ministry of Health reports, since the start of the pandemic, 556,370 deaths and more than 19,917,855 confirmed cases for this country of 212 million inhabitants, the second most bereaved in the world by the pandemic after the United States.
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With 910 new deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, Brazil has averaged 989 daily deaths over the last seven days.
This figure had not been less than 1,000 since January 20, with 981 dead, at the start of a particularly deadly second wave.
The number of deaths and contaminations in Brazil has been falling for several weeks, but epidemiologists fear a new outbreak of cases because of the Delta variant.
One million injections per day since June
After a late and chaotic start due to the lack of available doses, vaccination has finally reached its cruising speed, with more than a million injections per day since June.
In total, more than 100 million people have received at least one dose and 40 million have been fully immunized.
At the beginning of the week, however, vaccination was suspended for several days in some large cities due to delays in deliveries of new doses.
On Thursday, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro also announced a plan for the gradual relaxation of restrictions, including the authorization of the public in football stadiums with a gauge of 50% from September, only for vaccinated supporters.
He also announced the lifting of the obligation to wear a mask outdoors in November.
In addition, a Senate commission of inquiry has been looking for three months into how the government of President Jair Bolsonaro has handled the health crisis. This management is considered chaotic by the specialists, with in particular delays and suspicions of corruption in the purchase of vaccines.
