05/03/2020 - 18:45
- Clarín.com
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Brazil beat on Sunday 100,000 cases of coronavirus, with more than 7,000 dead , according to the report released Sunday that the Ministry of Health of that country. Currently, the mortality rate is 6.9%.
This country of 210 million inhabitants and continental dimensions is ranked ninth in the world in terms of infected people, with 101,147 cases and 7,025 deaths, according to the latest official balance.
According to the government, 275 new deaths were confirmed in the last 24 hours, plus 4,588 new cases. The number, however, is lower than the total registered in the last five days, when the daily average of confirmed deaths was more than 400, as confirmed by the local newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo .
Currently, the mortality rate is 6.9% in Brazil. Behind São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro has 11,139 cases and 1,019 deaths. Followed in the ranking by Pernambuco (8,643 cases and 652 deaths) and Ceará (8,370 cases and 663 deaths). In fifth place is the state of Amazonas, with 6,683 and 548 deaths.
Data published by the Ministry of Health also indicates that the states of Amapá, Amazonas, Roraima, Ceará and Pernambuco as those with the highest incidence rates of Covid-19, an indicator that covers the total number of cases in the population. .
Brazil is the seventh country in relation to the deceased, surpassing Germany, with 275 new deaths from Covid-19 in the last 24 hours. Furthermore, many specialists consider that the total number of confirmed cases is 15 times less than reality , since only serious patients undergo screening tests for the disease.
On Sunday night, a projection on the famous statue of Christ the Redeemer of Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro, will try to give the impression that the face of Jesus is covered by a mask, to encourage the population to wear it.
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Watch the specialThe situation is critical in several states, with hospitals already appearing overwhelmed, despite the fact that the peak of the pandemic is far from being reached in the largest country in Latin America.
President, Jair Bolsonaro , tried from the beginning of the pandemic minimize its scope and criticized the containment measures taken by the governors of the vast majority of states.
Bolsonaro warned that a "limit" was reached in reference to what he considers political interference by the Federal Supreme Court or Parliament in his actions by the government and appealed to the Armed Forces that "are with the people."
In a new gathering of hundreds of his followers before the Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Bolsonaro asked God "that we have no problems this week" because "the Constitution will be fulfilled at any price."
"You know that the people are with us. The Armed Forces are with the law, with order, with freedom and they are also on our side. I ask God that we have no problems this week because we have reached the limit. We have no more conversation From now on we will not only demand, but we will enforce the Constitution, "he threatened.
source: agencies.