Brazil has entered a very high plateau for a week at around 2,500 daily deaths from Covid-19, after several months of dizzying increases in death and contamination curves.
"The curves have apparently stabilized, but at a very worrying level, with the number of deaths still extremely high,"
Mauro Sanchez, epidemiologist at the University of Brasília, told AFP.
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Brazil, the second most bereaved country in the world in absolute numbers by the coronavirus, with just over 383,500 dead, had recorded an average of 2,580 daily deaths Thursday evening over the last seven days, and this figure has remained below 3,000 since April 15.
The country already has the worst death rate in the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere, with 182 deaths from Covid-19 per 100,000 inhabitants, ahead of the United States (172).
Far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who has repeatedly downplayed the pandemic, is criticized from all sides for his handling of the health crisis and a Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (ICC) is due to start looking into next week on government “omissions”.
