Brazil reports more than 2,500 Covid-19 deaths per day for second day in a row (May 19)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil reported more than 2,500 deaths per day due to covid-19 for the second consecutive day. According to the government’s bulletin released by the government on Wednesday, the total number of deaths now stands at 441,691, according to the bulletin released by the government.

According to the latest balance of the Ministry of Health, 2,641 deaths and 79,219 coronavirus infections were reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to more than 15.8 million.

The figures confirm Brazil, with its 212 million inhabitants, as the second country in the world in number of victims, behind the United States, and the third in number of cases, only surpassed by the USA and India.

Despite the timid slowdown of the pandemic in recent weeks, the epidemiological curve of infections has risen again, and the average number of daily cases in the last 7 days now stands at 64,665, after falling to 56,533 on April 26.

However, the average number of infections is still far from the peak of 76,545 cases per day reached on March 23.

Deaths, meanwhile, continue to fall, with a daily average of 1,950 deaths in the last 7 days, after having exceeded 3,000 between the beginning and mid-April.

According to the Ministry of Health, of the 15.8 million infected in Brazil, some 14.3 million, just over 90% of the total, have already recovered and have been discharged. At the same time, 1.04 million are still under medical care.

The management of the pandemic by the government of President Jair Bolsonaro is under the scrutiny of a parliamentary commission, which this Wednesday questioned the former Minister of Health Eduardo Pazuello.

During his appearance, Pazuello, minister between May 2020 and last March, defended Bolsonaro and stressed that all decisions were his alone while he was minister.

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