Brazil exceeds 24 million cases of coronavirus with an average of 150,000 per day

Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the world, registered 135,080 new cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours, which exceeded 24 million infections since the start of the pandemic at a time when it reaches a record average of almost 150,000 infections per day.

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According to the bulletin released this Sunday by the Ministry of Health, in addition to the 135,080 new cases, the South American giant registered 296 new deaths from covid in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of victims to 623,097 and the number of infections to 24,044,255. since the start of the pandemic, in February 2020.

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The data for this Sunday may be much higher than that disclosed by the Ministry because, in general, some regional governments do not update the statistics on weekends or partially register them due to the lack of officials processing the numbers.

Even so, the average number of infections in the last week, driven by the rapid spread of the omicron variant in the country, stood at 149,085 daily this Sunday, setting a record for the sixth consecutive day.

The average number of infections has been setting consecutive daily records since Tuesday, when it was 83,205 cases per day.

Since then it has grown to an average of almost 15,000 infections per day, reaching almost 150,000 cases per day this Sunday, double the average recorded at the worst moments of the second wave of the pandemic, on June 23 last year. , when Brazil recorded 77,328 new infections per day.

The arrival of the omicron in the country and its rapid spread caused the average number of infections to multiply by almost 50 in the last month, from 3,090 cases per day on December 23 to 149,085 daily infections this Sunday.

According to particular studies, the omicron not only caused a huge jump in the average number of daily cases, but also became the hegemonic variant in Brazil in one month, already being responsible for more than 95% of new infections throughout the country. country.

The more than 623,000 deaths and 24 million cases accumulated since the beginning of the crisis confirm Brazil as the second country in number of deaths from covid in the world after the United States and as the third in infections after the US and India.

Despite the fact that in a smaller proportion than the cases, the average number of deaths has also been growing in recent days, driven by the omicron, and multiplied by three in less than a month, from 92 victims per day on December 26 to 293 deaths per day this Sunday.

Today’s average is the highest in almost three months, since the one measured last November 1 (303 daily deaths).

Before the arrival of the omicron, Brazil had managed to reduce the number of deaths and cases from covid to its lowest in 20 months, since last December the figures were almost at the same levels as at the start of the pandemic.

This reduction was attributed to the progress of the vaccination campaign, which allowed that until this Saturday at least 150.5 million Brazilians, 70.66% of the 213 million inhabitants of the country, have the complete cycle of immunization ( two doses or the single dose vaccine).

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