Brazil Totals 4.6 Million Cases and 138,900 Deaths from Covid-19 (September 23rd)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus pandemic reached 138,977 in Brazil, according to the most recent data update from the Ministry of Health, released on Wednesday evening, September 23rd.
In the past 24 hours, 869 new deaths were recorded. On Tuesday, the total stood at 138,108. Health authorities are investigating 2,422 deaths that may or may not be related to the disease.
Between Tuesday and Wednesday, the state Health Secretariats added 33,281 new diagnoses of Covid-19 to the Ministry of Health’s system. On Tuesday, the system registered 4,591,604 infections since the start of the pandemic.
Considering the evolution of the case and death curves, Brazil has shown growth in both, according to the Ministry of Health’s Epidemiological Bulletin, also released on Wednesday by the body’s team.
Still according to the update, 493,022 people are under follow-up and another 3,992,886 have already recovered.
São Paulo
In the past 24 hours, the state of São Paulo, which holds the highest absolute number of cases and deaths in the country, accounted for 6,551 new cases and 226 new deaths from Covid-19. As a result, the state totals 951,973 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus, with 34,492 deaths.
From the total of diagnosed cases, 818,593 people have already recovered from the disease, 104,209 of them after hospitalization.
There are 3,972 people in the state hospitalized in critical condition for suspected or confirmed novel coronavirus cases, as well as 5,280 hospitalized in wards. The intensive care unit (ICU) bed occupancy rate stands at approximately 46.9 percent in the state and 46.1 percent in Greater São Paulo.
States
In addition to São Paulo, the states with the highest number of deaths are Rio de Janeiro (17,911), Ceará (8,861), Pernambuco (8,085), and Minas Gerais (6,897).
The states with least lives lost so far are Roraima (616), Acre (652), Amapá (697), Tocantins (890), and Mato Grosso do Sul (1,204).
Source: Agência Brasil
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