RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil reported this Sunday, May 9, 1,024 new deaths and 38,911 cases of Covid-19. At the same time, police operations against clandestine parties continue the last one last night with 600 people in the metropolitan area of São Paulo.
According to the bulletin of the Ministry of Health, the country has accumulated 422,340 deaths and 15,184,790 infected by the new coronavirus since the beginning of the health crisis some fourteen months ago.
This is the first time in the last six days that the country has recorded fewer than 2,000 deaths per day associated with the disease. However, the statistics are usually much lower on weekends due to the reduced activity of public agencies.
Brazil is the country with the second-highest number of deaths from Covid-19 after the United States, and the third-highest number of people infected, behind the United States and India.
Although the number of cases and deaths has fallen slightly in the last month, the slowing trend is still weak, and the virus is still out of control in large part of the national territory. In the last seven days, Brazil has reported an average of 61,500 infected and 2,100 deaths per day due to coronavirus.
AN ILLEGAL PARTY WITH 600 PEOPLE IS SHUT DOWN
Since the beginning of the health crisis, the Brazilian state with the worst numbers is São Paulo, which counted more than three million infected and 100,799 deaths through this Sunday.
According to official data, the public health system in São Paulo is still under heavy pressure, as 78.6% of the beds in intensive care units (ICU) in the region are occupied.
Despite the seriousness of the crisis, the authorities closed early Sunday morning a clandestine party with 600 people in the town of Osasco, in the metropolitan area of the São Paulo capital.
In the place, which was closed for not complying with the restrictions still in force in the region, most of the attendees, about 400, were enjoying the evening without masks, according to the police.
In addition, another 100 people were also caught in the early hours of Sunday morning in another part of the city of São Paulo.
The proliferation of this type of ‘celebrations’ forced the government of São Paulo to create a specific working group dedicated exclusively to hunting down parties during the pandemic. Between the end of February and March, they managed to deactivate more than 700.
BOLSONARO RIDES WITH HUNDREDS OF BIKERS
Seemingly unaware of the delicate health situation, the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, gathered Sunday hundreds of bikers in a ride through the streets of Brasilia.
The president led the motorcycle rally in support of his government and homage, he said, to Mother’s Day, which is celebrated this Sunday in Brazil.
At the end of the ride, he greeted a group of supporters at the gates of his official residence.
“You can be sure that, as supreme chief of the Armed Forces, I will never take the Army to the streets to keep you, prisoners, at home”, insisted Bolsonaro, in criticism of the restrictions imposed by local governments and still in force in several parts of the country.