RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The balance released by the Ministry of Health (MS) on October 4th, shows 8,456 new cases of covid-19 in the past 24 hours. There are now 4,915,289 cases since the start of the pandemic. A total of 365 new deaths were recorded, totaling 146,352 fatalities. To date, 4,263,208 Brazilians (86.7 percent) have recovered from the disease.
Lower figures on Sundays are common, due to the obstacles in feeding data by state and municipal Health Secretariats on weekends. However, the 8,400 new cases registered yesterday are lower than on previous Sundays. The past three Sundays (September 27th, 20th, and 13th), reported 14,300, 16,300, and 14,700 new cases, respectively.
According to the Ministry of Health, 505,729 patients are currently under treatment.
São Paulo, which reached a total of one million Covid-19 cases on Saturday, October 3rd, reached 1,003,902 accumulated Covid-19 cases. The other states with more incidence in the country are Bahia (315,440), Minas Gerais (307,199) and Rio de Janeiro (271,701). Acre accounts for the lowest number of cases (28,672). Next are Amapá (48,628), Roraima (51,368) and Rondônia (66,623).
São Paulo also leads in the number of deaths, with 36,178. Rio de Janeiro (18,769), Ceará (9,051), and Minas Gerais (7,643) appear in sequence.
The states with the fewest deaths are Roraima (661), Acre (667), Amapá (716), and Tocantins (968).
Source: Agência Brasil