The average number of coronavirus cases in Brazil fell to its lowest level in 18 months

Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19 in the world, registered 436 new deaths and 13,353 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the average number of cases in a week to 9,672 per day, its lowest level in 18 months, the Government reported this Thursday.

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The average number of infections per covid In the last seven days in the largest Latin American country, with its 213 million inhabitants, it was not so low since the one registered on May 13 of last year, when the average was 9,108 infections per day.

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The average number of cases per day this Thursday is equivalent to one eighth of that registered on June 23, when the country had a record average of 77,328 infections per day in a week.

According to the bulletin released today by the Ministry of Health, Brazil accumulated until this Thursday 608,671 deaths due to covid since the start of the pandemic, in February of last year, as well as 21,849,137 infections.

These numbers confirm the Latin American giant as the second country in the number of deaths from coronavirus in the world, surpassed only by the United States, and as the third in number of infections, behind the United States and India.

Despite the high figures accumulated in a year and eight months of health crisis, the pandemic has been easing rapidly in Brazil, with a drop in both deaths and deaths of nearly 80% between June and October.

Average deaths in the past seven days rose slightly from 222 daily on Wednesday to 229 this Thursday, but still the second-lowest in nearly 19 months.

With the exception of Wednesday, the average number of deaths per covid it was not that low since that registered on April 24 of last year (218 daily deaths), when the pandemic was only beginning.

On April 12, at the peak of the second wave of the pandemic, Brazil it registered a record average of 3,124 deaths per day in a week, a number almost fourteen times higher than this Thursday.

According to the Ministry of Health, the number of Brazilian municipalities that did not register any deaths due to covid In one month it jumped from 3,279 in September to 3,614 in October, which is equivalent to 65% of the country’s municipalities, the highest percentage since May 2020.

According to the portfolio, of the 21.8 million Brazilians who contracted the disease, some 21 million have already recovered, which is equivalent to 96.3% of the total, and another 193,170, 0.9%, are still under care doctors.

The sharp drop in numbers has been attributed to progress in the vaccination campaign, which Brazil it started late and slowly.

According to the Ministry of Health, as of Thursday about 155.3 million Brazilians, 72.9% of the 213 million inhabitants of the country, had received the first dose of some of the vaccines against covid and 121.1 million (56.9%) already had the complete immunization scheme.

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