Covid-19: Brazil Exceeds 5.7 Million Cases (November 10th)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil has passed the 5.7 million Covid-19 case mark. According to the update released on Tuesday, November 10th, by the Ministry of Health, 25,012 new positive diagnoses of the disease have been notified. As a result, the cumulative number has reached 5,700,044.

Brazil ranks third in number of cases, according to the global map of Johns Hopkins University, used as a world reference for monitoring pandemic statistics. Both India (8.59 million) and the United States (10.2 million) have more cases, but both are more populous countries than Brazil.

The number of deaths by Covid-19 rose to 162,829 in Brazil. In the past 24 hours, health authorities recorded 201 new deaths from the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

The data was released by the Ministry of Health in a new update last night. The balance is based on information collected by the state Health Secretariats on deaths and cases in each location.

There are still 2,295 deaths under investigation, as well as 364,575 patients under follow-up and 5,064,344 who have already recovered. However, these data are related to November 4th. The Ministry of Health has been experiencing difficulties in updating due to technical issues experienced in the body’s system last week.

States

The states with the highest number of deaths (data from November 5th) are São Paulo (39,717) and Rio de Janeiro (20,905). Next come Ceará (9,416), Minas Gerais (9,204), and Pernambuco (8,763).

The states with the lowest number of cases are Roraima (695), Acre (704), Amapá (766), Tocantins (1,115), and Rondônia (1,482).

Source: Agência Brasil