Brazil records 2,371 fatalities and nears 460,000 deaths due to Covid-19 (May 28)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil was this Friday close to 16.4 million infections and 460,000 deaths due to covid-19, after registering in the last 24 hours 49,768 new cases and 2,371 deaths associated with the coronavirus, according to official figures released by the Government.
Since the first infection, on February 26, 2020, and the first death, on March 12 last year, both in Sao Paulo, the country now has 16,391,930 confirmed cases and 459,045 deaths.
In its most recent epidemiological bulletin, the Ministry of Health indicated that between Thursday and Friday, the number of infected persons decreased (-26.23%), and there was a slight increase in the number of daily deaths (5.61%) compared to the previous 24 hours.
According to the official report, 14,811,266 patients in the nation of nearly 212 million inhabitants have recovered from the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which is 90.3 % of the total number of infected.
Another 1,121,619 patients undergo medical treatment in hospitals or their homes after testing positive in clinical tests.
Brazil, one of the three countries in the world most affected by the pandemic in absolute numbers, and the United States and India, has a mortality rate of 217 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and an incidence of 7,777 people infected in the same proportion.
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