Brazil registers a new daily record of coronavirus infections and exceeds 625,000 deaths

Brazil This Thursday, it registered again a daily record of infections of COVID-19, with 228,954 new cases confirming the spread of the omicron variant, and added 672 deaths in a day that exceeded the 625,000 deaths associated with the coronavirus throughout the pandemic.

According to the most recent epidemiological bulletin of the National Council of Secretaries of Health (Conass) of the 27 Brazilian states, since the start of the pandemic, in February 2020, the country has 24,764,838 confirmed cases and a total of 625,085 deaths.

The number of infections increased this Thursday by 1.95% over those that occurred on Wednesday (224,567), which had also been a record, while the number of deaths had a rise of 17.8% compared to the 570 deaths reported last week. eve.

The figures keep the country with a growing number of infections, the largest in the pandemic, but still with death figures below the peaks of 2021, in a situation that, however, has put the public health system on alert, with some regions maxed out in their intensive care units (ICUs).

In addition to the cancellation of public events, such as Carnival, and adopting the vaccination passport, some regions also reversed their relaxation decisions that they had adopted at the end of 2021 when infections and deaths registered minimum numbers.

The governor of the Federal District of Brasilia, Ibanes Rocha, for example, published this Thursday a decree that again completely prohibits the presence of the public at sporting events due to the advance of the covid-19 pandemic in the Brazilian capital.

BrazilFurthermore, it has diagnostic problems due to the lack of laboratory tests in some regions, such as Rio de Janeiro.

Rio authorities have stated that they only have clinical tests in stock for a week, which increased the search for them and caused endless lines of people at the Maracanã stadium.

Brazil, one of the three countries most affected by the pandemic in absolute numbers along with the United States and India, registers a mortality rate of 297.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and an incidence of 11,784 people infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the same population proportion.

The average number of cases in the last week stood at 168,514 infections per day this Thursday, confirming the upward situation, and the number of daily deaths in the same period stood at 411 deaths, far from the numbers of April and May 2021 .

On the other hand, the Ministry of Health celebrated on its social networks the 350 million doses of vaccines applied, with 151 million for second doses or single application.

Thus, the country reached the complete cycle of immunization in 70% of the 213 million inhabitants.