RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil has surpassed the United States and has become the country with the highest number of people recovered from Covid-19 in the world, reports Johns Hopkins University, which has monitored the novel coronavirus pandemic in partnership with bodies similar to the Ministry of Health in all countries.
The Johns Hopkins panel shows that Brazil counts 660,469 recovered patients, while the United States totals 656,161. Russia ranks third and records 374,557 people who have been infected but no longer have symptoms of the disease.
Released on January 22nd, 2020, the dynamic panel run by the university hosts medical data from all 188 World Health Organization (W.H.O.) signatory countries and several secondary medical care centers.
The figures are updated regularly. “The availability of accurate and robust epidemiological data on an epidemic is a valuable guide for public health decisions. Consistent storage of data is critical to understanding transmissibility, risk of geographical spread, transmission routes and risk factors,” says the scientific article explaining the tool’s operation, published in the British medical-scientific journal The Lancet.
The map also shows that São Paulo is the second-most affected state in the world, with 238,822 confirmed cases of Covid-19. New York comes first, with 390,415 people infected with the disease.
According to the Johns Hopkins survey and the forecasted development of the novel coronavirus, the world is expected to pass the 10 million confirmed cases mark soon. The number of deaths is also growing at the same rate, with 484,155 recorded to date as a result of complications caused by Covid-19.
The United States leads the ranking in number of tests. According to the US university data panel, over 28.5 million tests have already been conducted there. The state of California ranks first, with 3.6 million people already tested. New York, the state with the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the world, comes second with 3.5 million tests conducted.
Source: Agência Brasil
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