03/08/2021 8:16 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 03/08/2021 8:16 PM
Brazil, one of the countries most affected by covid-19 in the world, registered 987 new deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 266,398 and
the average number of deaths in seven days exceeded 1,500 newspapers
for the first time since the start of the pandemic.
According to the data released this Monday by the Ministry of Health, the average of deaths from covid-19 in Brazil in the last seven days rose to 1,525 per day,
with a growth of 24.5%
compared to the average of ago a week (1,225 daily on March 1) and a jump of 50.99% compared to a month ago (1,010 daily on February 8).
The average number of deaths in the last fourteen days, which the Ministry considers a more representative index, also reached its highest level since the beginning of the pandemic on Monday, with 1,380 daily deaths and a jump of 31.42% compared to the average. a month ago (1,050 daily on February 8).
Despite the strong increase in the averages,
this Monday was the first time that Brazil registered fewer than 1,000 deaths in one day
in the last week, from the 778 recorded on Monday of last week.
That number hit a record
1,910 deaths on Wednesday, March 3,
and dropped to 1,086 last Sunday.
Photograph taken with a drone that shows the empty Iracema beach, today in Fortaleza, capital of Ceará (northeast).
Photo EFE
Brazil recorded in the last week the deadliest period since the start of the health crisis.
The death toll was 1,641 on Tuesday, 1,910 on Wednesday, 1,699 on Thursday, 1,800 on Friday, 1,555 on Saturday, 1,086 on Sunday and 987 on Monday.
But the Ministry of Health itself admits that
the figures are usually lower on Sundays and Mondays
, since there are fewer officials processing the data on weekends, and that they tend to jump on Tuesdays, when the statistics are updated.
More infections
According to the bulletin released this Monday, Brazil registered 32,321 new infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of accumulated cases since the start of the pandemic
to 11,051,665.
The average number of infections in the last seven days stood at 66,381 per day this Tuesday, also a record since Brazil registered the first case, on February 26 of last year.
The high averages in recent days confirm Brazil as one of the epicenters of the pandemic and as the second country in number of deaths, only surpassed by the United States, and
the third in number of infections, behind the United States. and India.
They also confirm that the Latin American giant, with its 210 million inhabitants, is currently suffering a new wave of the pandemic, more virulent and lethal, in part caused by the circulation of new strains of the virus,
including the Brazilian variant that originated in the Amazon.
A woman waits in front of a closed store in São Paulo, Brazil, on March 6, 2021. Photo Xinhua
According to the Ministry's bulletin, since the beginning of the pandemic 9,782,320 patients have recovered from the disease, representing 88.5% of the total infected, and another 1,002,947 continue to receive medical attention, equivalent to 9 % of those infected.
The bulletin also indicates that the fatality rate from covid-19 in Brazil
was 2.4% of the population,
the mortality rate at 126.8 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and the incidence rate at 5,259 infected per 100,000 population.
The economy
In the midst of the worsening of the pandemic, the Minister of Economy of Brazil, Paulo Guedes, guaranteed this Monday that the Government will advance in a plan of
"mass vaccination"
against covid-19 and that it will keep economic activity "in motion" .
Guedes told reporters that "mass vaccination" will be a reality in the next two quarters, through supply agreements with various laboratories, and that the Government will reactivate a subsidy program for the poor and unemployed as soon as it is authorized by the Congress,
which is scheduled for this week.
He added that President Jair Bolsonaro,
whose questioned management of the pandemic
and his constant disdain in relation to the real severity of COVID-19 have generated waves of criticism, is determined to accelerate the purchase of vaccines, which are in short supply in the world.
In that sense, he said that Bolsonaro held a virtual meeting on Monday with directors of the Pfizer laboratory, with whom he agreed to deliver 14 million doses of his vaccine before next June.
According to the Government, Brazil can count on about 50 million doses of different vaccines for the second quarter of this year, a
number that would increase substantially in the third quarter
with the local production of antidotes from Chinese Sinovac and AstraZeneca- Oxford
"Mass vaccination is the government's first priority and that is what we will do," Guedes said.
So far, according to the Ministry of Health, just over 8 million Brazilians have received the first dose of any vaccine, and only 2.8 million have already taken the two that are necessary.
Source: EFE
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