Covid-19: Brazil has 406,400 deaths and 14.7 million cases (Mai 1)

RI DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The number of deaths from covid-19 has reached 406,437 in Brazil. In the last 24 hours, 2,656 more lives were lost to the disease, according to today’s (1) bulletin from the Ministry of Health. Yesterday (30), the daily balance showed 403,781 deaths. There are still 3,629 deaths under investigation by health teams.

The total number of people infected since the pandemic began totaled 14,725,975. Between yesterday and today, 66,964 new positive covid-19 diagnoses were recorded.

The number of people recovered totaled 13,242,665. The number of patients with active cases being followed up by health teams was 1,076,873.

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