Brazil registers 4,043 new cases and 92 deaths from coronavirus in one day

Brazil registered in the last 24 hours 4,043 new cases and 92 deaths associated with covid-19, the second lowest number of deaths in one day this year, according to the figures released this Sunday by the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass).

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Since the start of the pandemic in February 2020, the country now has 22,080,906 confirmed cases and a total of 614,278 deaths, according to the most recent epidemiological bulletin from the Ministry of Health.

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The number of deaths in one day is the second of the year, after the 59 reported on Sunday, November 7.

On weekends, however, there is usually a lower number of new cases and deaths due to the lack of personnel to compute the data in some remote municipalities of the country and this consolidated is updated until the following Monday or Tuesday.

The average number of cases in the last week fell moderately this Sunday to 9,090 daily infections, which exceed 8,330 for the weekly period ended on November 20 and which is the lowest level so far this year and the lowest since May 2020 .

The average number of daily deaths in the last week, meanwhile, stood at 231 this Sunday, slightly above the 195 on November 20, which was also the lowest of the year and the lowest since April 2020.

Despite the low averages, the country is on alert for the new “omicron” variant, of which its potential and resistance against vaccines are unknown, and on Saturday it expanded to 10 the list of African nations with restrictions for their travelers bound for Brazil.

Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and Namibia joined South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) on the list of countries with closed air borders with Brazil.

In that sense, the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa, regulator) reported this Sunday that a Brazilian in Sao Paulo, from South Africa, tested positive for covid-19, but the presence of the new variant in his body has not yet been identified. and the patient – in quarantine – will continue to be monitored.

According to the report of the Ministry of Health, with a one-day delay in the item, in the nation of 213 million inhabitants, 21,288,281 patients from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus had recovered until Saturday, which is 96.4 % of all infected.

Brazil, the second country in the world most affected by the pandemic in absolute numbers behind the United States, registers a mortality rate of 292.3 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and an incidence of 10,507 people infected in the same proportion.

Since Friday, when the country totaled 308.8 million doses applied since January 17 and was approaching 65% of its population with the complete immunization cycle, the Ministry of Health reports that its official platform for the dissemination of data from vaccination is in technical maintenance.

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