Brazil Counts 727 New Deaths in 24 Hours; Infections Exceed 1.3 Million (June 29th)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil has recorded 727 deaths and 25,234 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours, according to data from a survey conducted by the consortium among news outlets Estadão, G1, O Globo, Extra, Folha and UOL with the state Health Secretariats. Consequently, the total number of deaths stood at 58,385 and the total number of infections at 1,370,488, on Monday, June 29th.

The country ranks second in the world with the highest number of both infections and deaths from the virus, behind only the United States, which counts some 2.5 million confirmed infections and 125,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The count of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Brazil tends to slow on weekends and Mondays, when there is a backlog in notifications, and pick up along the week as the tests are processed.

The state of São Paulo, which has been the epicenter of the disease in Brazil since its onset, has counted 3,408 new cases and 60 deaths, raising the total to 275,145 and 14,398 respectively.

Rio de Janeiro is next on the list of the most affected states, with 29 deaths recorded by Covid-19 and 585 new cases of the disease in 24 hours. There are now 9,848 deaths and 111,883 cases in total.

Last Sunday, the world reached the mark of half a million deaths from the novel coronavirus. As the pandemic spreads in the United States and Brazil, accounting for over a third of all deaths, the disease becomes less lethal in European and Asian countries, despite an increase in cases.

The W.H.O. alerts that part of humanity is still vulnerable to Covid-19

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), alerted yesterday that there is a large portion of humanity still vulnerable to Covid-19. “This is far from over,” he said during a press conference. “The worst is yet to come,” he said at another time on the pandemic, criticizing the political and ideological differences that hinder the fight against the disease.

“We don’t have a vaccine now, but there is a lot we can do to contain the spread,” said Michael Ryan, WHO Executive Director, also speaking at the press conference. “There is no guarantee there will be a vaccine, that’s why there are so many candidates,” he noted.

Data disclosure

Early on Monday evening, the government reported that Brazil counted a further 692 deaths and 24,052 infections from the novel coronavirus. Consequently, in total there are 1,368,195 confirmed cases and 58,314 deaths caused by the coronavirus, according to the Ministry of Health. This figure differs slightly from that collected by the media outlet consortium mainly on account of the time the data was collected.

Source: Estadão Conteúdo