Brazil exceeded 30 million cases of COVID-19

Brazil, one of the countries most affected by COVID-19 in the world and with more than 660,000 deaths from the disease, surpassed 30 million cases of coronavirus on Monday since the start of the pandemic, in February 2020, according to the bulletin released this Monday by the Ministry of Health.

With 13,361 infections recorded in the last 24 hours, Brazil has accumulated 30,012,798 cases of COVID-19 since the start of the crisis, making it the third most infected country in the world, after the United States (79.4 million) and India (43 million).

The 165 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours, for their part, placed the total number of deaths from the disease in Brazil at 660,312, confirming the country as the second most deaths in the world due to COVID-19 after the United States (974,179 deaths).

Despite the high numbers of deaths and infections, the average number of deaths from COVID-19 in the last week fell this Monday to 194 per day, one of its lowest levels since January 18 (183 per day).

This average is much lower than the record that Brazil recorded on April 12 last year (3,124 deaths per day), when the country was at the peak of the second wave of the pandemic.

The average number of deaths from COVID-19 in a week fell to 94 a day on January 6, a level very similar to that in the first weeks of the pandemic (March 2020), but the arrival in the country of Ómicron, a much more contagious variant, caused the average to jump to 951 deaths per day on February 11, from when is falling.

The average number of cases, which reached the record of 189,526 infections per day on February 3 due to the rapid spread of Omicron, fell sharply in the last two months and this Monday stood at 22,921 daily infections, one of its lowest levels since January 6 (15,670 cases daily).

The sharp drop in both deaths and cases is attributed to the advance of the vaccination campaign in Brazil, where 161 million people already have the full course of immunization (the two doses or the single-dose vaccine), which is equivalent to 75.6% of the population.

The reduction in incidence allowed that last week, for the first time since July 2020, the country's 27 states were “outside the alarm zone” due to COVID-19, that is, with bed occupancy rates for infected persons in hospitals below 60% of capacity.

(With information from EFE)

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