Brazil records 45,022 Covid cases and 1,605 deaths (July 13); average daily deaths in decline

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil on Tuesday (13) reported 1,605 new deaths from Covid-19, bringing the total number of fatalities from the disease in the country to 535,838, the Ministry of Health said.

Also, 45,022 new cases of coronavirus were reported, according to the ministry. The total of confirmed infections in the country advanced to 19,151,993.

In terms of the average number of deaths, the number dropped 19% in two weeks. On average, there are 1,297 deaths per day.

According to Statista, the leading German company specializing in market and consumer data, Brazil ranks seventh in the number of deaths per million among the ten most affected nations like Peru, the Czech Republic, Colombia, Argentina, Italy, Belgium, and other European countries.

Data published by Imperial College London on Tuesday once again indicated a slowdown of the disease in the country.

According to the British institution, the transmission rate of the virus in Brazil fell to 0.88 this week, from 0.91 in the previous week, which represents the lowest rate of Covid-19 transmission in the country in 2021. When the index falls below 1, it indicates that there is a deceleration of the contagion.

The third wave has not materialized in Brazil, although it has been announced almost daily since March.

According to federal government data, Brazil reports 17,770,617 people recovered from Covid-19 and 845,538 patients still in follow-up.

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Some 4.7 million Latin Americans ceased to belong to the middle class and fell in social class in 2020 due to the overly strict anticovid measures that have stifled the economies of these countries.

But the impact would be even stronger, with a total of 20 million people losing their place in the middle class, if Brazil had not implemented a broad temporary social protection program that benefited millions in the South American nation, according to the report “The slow rise and sudden decline of the middle class in Latin America and the Caribbean”, by the World Bank.

The situation is similar with poverty. Across the region, poverty is expected to decline marginally from 22% in 2019 to 21.8% in 2020, representing 400,000 fewer poor people.

If Brazil had not implemented its mitigation measures, some 28 million people would have joined poverty in 2020, according to the report presented at a virtual conference.