Brazil Records 1,223 Deaths and 22,169 Confirmed Coronavirus Cases (April 12th)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The balance of Covid-19 cases released by the Ministry of Health on Sunday, April 12th, shows:

• 1,223 deaths;
• 22,169 confirmed cases;
• Mortality rate: 5.5 percent.

On Saturday, April 11th, there were 1,124 deaths and 20,727 confirmed cases. There are 1,442 cases (up seven percent) and 99 more deaths (up nine percent) in the last 24 hours.

Tocantins is still the only state in the country with no deaths due to Covid-19. São Paulo (8,755), Rio de Janeiro (2,855), Ceará (1,676), Amazonas (1,206) and Pernambuco (960) are the states with the highest number of cases.

The Southeast region recorded 12,799 (57.7 percent) of the country’s cases. The Northeast region is the second most affected with 4,246 (19.2 percent), followed by the South with 2,159 (9.7 percent); North with 1,898 (8.6 percent); and Midwest with 1,067 (4.8 percent).

Deaths more than double in a week

The death toll has more than doubled since last week. On Monday, April 6th, there were 553 deaths. The increase in relation to the total reported on Sunday was 121 percent.

On Sunday, no press conference was held with journalists; the data were published on the Ministry of Health’s website.

Source: G1