RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil passed 135,000 Covid-19 deaths on Friday, September 18th. The number was released in the Ministry of Health’s update. In the past 24 hours, 858 deaths by Covid-19 were recorded, totaling 135,793 since the start of the pandemic. There are a further 2,352 deaths under investigation by health authorities.
According to official data, the country is nearing the 4.5 million cumulative cases mark. Between Thursday and Friday, 39,797 patients diagnosed with Covid-19 were added to the statistics, totaling 4,495,183 cumulative cases.
On Thursday, the Ministry of Health also released the weekly Covid-19 epidemiological bulletin. According to the data, the number of cases dropped 30 percent and the number of deaths was down by 13 percent compared to the preceding epidemiological week.
Still according to the update, 570,251 people are in follow-up and another 3,789,139 have already recovered.
Lethality (number of deaths out of total cases) stood at three percent. Mortality (number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) was 64.6. The incidence (total number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants) increased to 2139.1.
States
The states with the highest number of deaths are São Paulo (33,678), Rio de Janeiro (17,575), Ceará (8,790), Pernambuco (7,971), and Minas Gerais (6,574).
The states with the fewest lives lost to date are Roraima (613), Acre (647), Amapá (690), Tocantins (850), and Mato Grosso do Sul (1,148).
Source: Agência Brasil