Brazil exceeded the milestone of 400,000 deaths from Covid-19 on Thursday, April 29, according to figures from the Ministry of Health which show 401,186 deaths in the second most bereaved country behind the United States.
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Brazil has recorded 3,001 additional deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours and nearly 70,000 new cases of contamination, very high levels at the end of April which, along with that of March, will have been the deadliest in 14 month of pandemic in this country of 212 million inhabitants.
The death toll has increased exponentially since the start of the year under the pressure of the P1 variant: it took more than five months to go from 100,000 to 200,000 deaths on January 7, but then only 77 days to reach the 300,000 (March 24) and 37 for the 400,000.
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Even as the curves begin to stabilize on a high plateau, the death rate in Brazil is the highest in the Americas and the Southern Hemisphere: it is 189 per 100,000, exceeding that of the United Kingdom (188).
A parliamentary commission of inquiry was set up in the Senate on Tuesday to study how the government of Jair Bolsonaro handled the health crisis, deemed inept and irresponsible by many specialists.
