Brazil Records 555 Additional Covid-19 Deaths in 24 Hours (July 26th)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The balance released yesterday by the Ministry of Health indicates that 555 people died of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.
This brings to 87,004 the total number of lives lost to the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
In addition, 24,578 cases were confirmed, bringing the total to 2,419,091. This number includes 1,634,274 people (67.6 percent) who had the disease and were cured.
States
The states with the highest number of Covid-19 deaths are São Paulo (21,606), Rio de Janeiro (12,835), Ceará (7,493), Pernambuco (6,352), and Pará (5,716).
The states with the lowest number of deaths from the pandemic are: Mato Grosso do Sul (305), Tocantins (346), Roraima (473), Acre (486), and Amapá (554).
The states with the highest number of confirmed cases of the disease are São Paulo (483,982), Ceará (162,085), Rio de Janeiro (156,325), Pará (148,463), and Bahia (148,179).
The states with the fewest infections to date are Acre (18,745), Mato Grosso do Sul (21,514), Tocantins (21,767), Roraima (29,829), and Amapá (35,220).
Source: Agência Brasil
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