Covid-19: Brazil registers reduction in daily number of deaths and cases (May 2)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil registered in the last 24 hours 28,935 new cases and 1,202 deaths associated with the coronavirus, reducing more than half compared to the previous day, according to official figures released Sunday by the Government.

Since the first infection, on February 26, and the first death, on March 12, both in São Paulo, the country now has 14,754,910 confirmed cases and 407,639 deaths.

In its most recent epidemiological bulletin, the Ministry of Health indicated that there was a considerable decrease in the number of daily deaths (-54.7%) and in the number of infected (-56.7%) compared to the previous 24 hours.

However, the figures on weekend days are usually lower because there is no personnel to compute the numbers in some municipalities far from the main urban centers. The consolidated figures are not available until the following Monday or Tuesday.

According to the official report, 13,278,718 patients have recovered from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the nation of nearly 212 million inhabitants, which is 89.9 % of the total number of those infected.

Another 1,068,553 patients are under medical follow-up in hospitals or their homes after testing positive in clinical tests.

Brazil, one of the three countries in the world most affected by the pandemic in absolute numbers, together with the United States and India, has a mortality rate of 194 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and 7,021 people infected in the same proportion.

The state of São Paulo, the most populous in the country with 46 million inhabitants and located in the Southeast region, continues to be the state with the most confirmed cases (2,923,367) and deaths (97,058).

The country, which experienced in April the deadliest month of the fourteen months of the pandemic and slowed down the vaccination campaign due to lack of immunizers, began to receive this weekend newly imported doses in addition to the locally produced doses of Coronavac (Sinovac/Butantan) and Covishield (AstraZeneca/Fiocruz).

Four million doses of the Anglo-Swedish Covishield, produced in India and China, are arriving on different flights to the country through the Covax Facility alliance of the World Health Organization and join the first shipment on Thursday of the Cominarty vaccine from the US-German consortium Pfizer-BioNtech.