RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazil has reached just over four million cumulative cases of Covid-19, according to the Ministry of Health’s briefing released yesterday, September 3rd.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 4,041,638 people have been infected with the coronavirus. Between Wednesday and Friday, the Health Secretariats added 43,773 new patients diagnosed with the disease to the statistics. On Wednesday, the pandemic data system recorded 3,997,865 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
According to the update, the novel coronavirus pandemic is responsible for 124,614 deaths. In the past 24 hours, 834 new deaths were recorded as a result of the disease.
The report also shows that the rate of recovery has increased, and is now over 80 percent of the total number of victims.
Brazil records 3,247,610 recovered patients – 80.4 percent of the total number of infections. Another 669,414 people are still under medical care and are considered cases under monitoring.
On Wednesday, September 2nd, the Ministry of Health introduced the new epidemiological bulletin that pointed to an 11 percent decrease in deaths when comparing the current epidemiological week (35th) with the preceding week (34th). Considering the number of cases, the weekly figure was stable.
States
The states with the highest number of deaths are São Paulo (30,905), Rio de Janeiro (16,394), Ceará (8,493), Pernambuco (7,619), and Pará (6,215).
The states with the lowest number of deaths by Covid-19 are Roraima (596), Acre (622), Amapá (669), Tocantins (712), and Mato Grosso do Sul (914).
Source: Agência Brasil
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