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The deadliest day: Brazil exceeded 2,800 daily deaths from coronavirus for the first time and broke a new record

2021-03-17T02:13:27.921Z


Since the beginning of the pandemic, there are already more than 282,000 deaths and 11.6 million infections in the country.


03/16/2021 19:03

  • Clarín.com

  • World

Updated 03/16/2021 11:09 PM

Brazil, the current global epicenter of coronavirus,

registered 2,841 deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours

, a new daily record of victims since the start of the pandemic, which already leaves more than 282,000 deaths and 11.6 million infections in the country , reported official health sources.

According to the bulletin released by the National Council of Health Secretariats (Conass), the number of deaths this Tuesday exceeds that of Wednesday of last week (2,286 victims), which was until now

the most lethal day since the beginning of the pandemic.

Thus, the daily average for the last week rose to 1,894 deaths, a figure that is also a record since the arrival of the first case in Brazil and Latin America, on February 26, 2020.

Regarding infections, the Conass report indicates that 83,926 new infections were notified in the last day,

bringing

the number of confirmed cases in the country

to 11,603,535

.

The high averages in recent days ratify Brazil as one of the countries most affected by the pandemic and place it as the second nation in number of deaths and infections from Covid-19 in the world, only surpassed by the United States.

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 variants of the virus, including the Brazilian one that originated in the Amazon. .

According to the bulletin that gathers data from the 27 health ministries of Brazil, the fatality rate from Covid in the country remained at 2.4% of the population, the mortality rate

was 134.7 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants

and the incidence rate was 5,292.7 infected in the same population proportion.

The increase in infections and hospitalizations has much of the country on the verge of a health collapse, since in 24 of the 27 states of the country the rate of use of Intensive Care Units (ICU) exceeds 80%.

This serious situation forced a large part of the regional and municipal governments to re

-impose measures to restrict mobility

, such as curfews, partial confinements and trade closures, in order to reduce the spread of the virus and avoid the imminent collapse. hospitable.

São Paulo, the most populous state in Brazil, with about 46 million inhabitants and which since the day before has been under strict control of mobility, broke a new daily record of deaths from covid on Tuesday,

with 679 deaths

in the last 24 hours with what already borders the 65,000 deaths by the virus.

EFE source

PB

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