Covid-19: Brazil Has Over 1,200 New Deaths, 60,000 New Cases (August 13th)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Health’s daily report on the novel coronavirus pandemic, released yesterday, August 13th, reported 1,262 deaths and 60,091 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours by the state Health Secretariats.

It was the day, since the start of the pandemic with the third-highest daily number of new infections. On July 22nd, there were 67,860 cases and 69,074 on July 29th.

With yesterday’s numbers, the total number of deaths caused by the pandemic reached 105,463. On Wednesday, August 12th, the Ministry’s panel reported 104,201 deaths and a further 3,411 are still under investigation. The data per epidemiological week pointed to the maintenance of stability in terms of deaths, with a three percent downward slope.

The accumulated cases total 3,224,876. On Wednesday, The Ministry of Health’s report recorded 3,164,785 people infected since the start of the pandemic. According to the epidemiological bulletin, the case curve is also stabilizing, with a three percent downward slope in the last epidemiological week.

To date, 2,356,640 people have recovered from Covid-19. Currently, there are 762,773 patients under follow-up.

The states with the highest numbers of Covid-19 deaths are São Paulo (26,324), Rio de Janeiro (14,412), Ceará (8,088), and Pará (5,917).

The states with the fewest deaths are Tocantins (493), Roraima (561), Mato Grosso do Sul (570), Acre (574), and Amapá (609).

Brazil ranks second in deaths and cases, losing only to the United States, which had 5,236,599 people infected and 166,77 fatalities to date, according to the Johns Hopkins University map, a world reference survey.

When population proportions are considered, Brazil falls to the eighth position in the incidence of the disease (cases per one million inhabitants) and drops to the ninth position in mortality (deaths by Covid-19 per one million inhabitants), according to the latest data from the Ministry of Health’s Epidemiological Bulletin announced on Wednesday.

Source: Agência Brasil