RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Health has reported another case of coronavirus in the country, this time in Minas Gerais.
On Sunday, Alagoas and Minas Gerais joined the list of states with the presence of the virus. With this record, there are now 16 cases in São Paulo, three in Rio de Janeiro, one in Espírito Santo, two in Bahia, one in the Federal District, one in Alagoas and one in Minas Gerais.
Of the 25 cases, four of them occurred through local transmission, through contact with people who had been confirmed infected by the coronavirus. The other 21 cases concern people who had been abroad. São Paulo and Bahia were the two states reporting people infected by local transmission.
The Ministry of Health is monitoring 663 suspected cases. Another 632 have already been ruled out. The data are updated daily on the Ministry’s Integrated Health Surveillance Platform. On Sunday two updates were made by the portfolio, the last of them occurred at 5:30 PM.
One of the confirmed cases is severe. A 52-year-old woman is hospitalized and is breathing with the aid of equipment. However, a medical bulletin released yesterday by the Federal District Health Department pointed to “a slight improvement” in the patient’s condition.