Covid-19: Brazil Has Accumulated 142,000 Deaths and 4.74 Million Cases (September 28th)
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Health’s daily bulletin, released on Monday, September 28th, shows that Brazil has recorded 4,745,464 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.
Of this total, three percent of cases resulted in death (142,058); 10.9 percent of patients are under treatment (519,224); and 86.1 percent of Brazilians who contracted Covid-19 have recovered (4,084,182).
In the past 24 hours, 317 deaths and 13,155 new cases were registered. The number of cases is typically lower on Sundays and Mondays due to the constraints on feeding the database by the Health Secretariat teams. On Tuesdays, the figure has been higher due to the sending of data accumulated over the weekend.
Health authorities are still investigating if another 2,533 deaths were caused by coronavirus.
Sates with highest number of Covid-19 cases in Brazil:
São Paulo = 973,142; Bahia = 306,629; Minas Gerais = 290,137; Rio de Janeiro = 262,006; and Ceará = 239,062.
Sates with highest number of Covid-19 deaths in Brazil:
São Paulo = 35,125; Rio de Janeiro = 18,291; Ceará = 8,921; Pernambuco = 8,190; and Minas Gerais = 7,240.
Source: Agência Brasil
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