Covid-19: Brazil Reaches 2.6 Million Cases and 91,200 Deaths (July 30th)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil has reached a total of 2,610,102 Covid-19 cases. A further 57,837 people have been recorded as infected over the past 24 hours. On Wednesday, July 29th, the system reported 2,552,265 cases since the start of the pandemic. The data are from the Ministry of Health’s daily update, released early on Thursday evening, July 30th.
Also according to the report, 91,263 lives have been lost since the start of the pandemic. The panel was provided with 1,129 new records over the past 24 hours. There are currently 3,591 deaths under investigation. On Wednesday, the system had recorded 90,134 deaths from the disease.
Still according to the Ministry of Health’s daily update, there are 694,744 patients under follow-up. Another 1,824,095 people have recovered from Covid-19.
The lethality rate (number of deaths by the total of cases) stood at 3.5 percent. The mortality rate (number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) reached 43.4. The incidence of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants is 1,242.
The states with the most deaths are São Paulo (22,710), Rio de Janeiro (13,348), Ceará (7,661), Pernambuco (6,526), and Pará (5,699).
The states with the fewest deaths from the pandemic are Mato Grosso do Sul (357), Tocantins (368), Roraima (501), Acre (521), and Amapá (561).
In terms of cases, São Paulo leads (529,006), followed by Ceará (171,468), Rio de Janeiro (163,642), Bahia (161,630) and Pará (153,350).
The states with the fewest infections so far are Acre (19,573), Tocantins (24,278), Mato Grosso do Sul (24,287), Roraima (31,455), and Amapá (36,272). However, according to the epidemiological bulletin released yesterday by the Ministry of Health, several of these states have recently seen large increases.
Roraima experienced a higher growth in both deaths and cases in the 30th epidemiological week compared to the preceding one (80 and 146 percent, respectively). Amapá saw a large increase in deaths over the same period (53 percent), as did Tocantins (41 percent).
Source: Agência Brasil
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