Brazil Records Over 1,100 Deaths for Second Consecutive Day (July 8th)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – For the second consecutive day, Brazil recorded over a thousand deaths by Covid-19 in 24 hours on July 8th. There were 1,187 new deaths and 41,541 additional confirmed cases of infection between Tuesday and Wednesday, according to data from the survey conducted by the news outlet consortium of Estadão, G1, O Globo, Extra, Folha, and UOL working directly with the state Health Secretariats.

In total, 68,055 Brazilians have already lost their lives to Covid-19, and 1,716,196 people have been infected.

Brazil ranks second in the world, having the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths except for the United States, which counts three million confirmed infections and 132,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The total number of Covid-19 deaths in the state of São Paulo was 16,788 on Wednesday, according to data from the State Health Secretariat. A further 313 deaths from the disease have been confirmed by health authorities in the last 24 hours.

With Wednesday’s figures, the total number of people infected with the disease reached 341,365. Thus, another 8,657 patients tested positive for the disease. The rate of social isolation in the state on Tuesday stood at 45 percent.

Rio de Janeiro, another state greatly affected by the pandemic, recorded 89 deaths between Tuesday and Wednesday and reached 10,970 deaths by Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic. The total number of infections reached 126,329, according to the State Health Secretariat (SES).

Covid-19 affects 96.4 percent of municipalities; interior leads death toll

The Ministry of Health reported on Wednesday that 5,371 municipalities (96.4 percent of the total 5,570) have recorded cases of Covid-19. There are deaths from the disease in 51 percent of these. The data were released on the 27th epidemiological week ending on July 4th. In the preceding week, 90.1 percent of municipalities reported cases and 45.8 percent showed deaths from Covid-19.

According to the ministry, 63 percent of cases of the disease are found in the interior, whereas capitals and metropolitan regions account for 37 percent. The country’s interior has led in the number of cases since late May but has seen more deaths (52 percent of the total) in the 27th week.

Brazil recorded seven percent more deaths in the week that ended on July 4th than in the preceding week and an increase of one percent in the number of deaths. Arnaldo Correia, the Health Regulatory Secretary, said Brazil appears to be on a “plateau” (stabilization) of the number of deaths. “Although very high, (the number of deaths) has shown to be relatively constant, with slight upward and downward variations,” Correia said in a press interview.

Source: Estadão Conteúdo