Covid-19: Brazil Records Further 561 Deaths; Total Reaches 94,665 (August 3rd)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Ministry of Health’s report released yesterday, August 3rd, recorded a further 561 deaths in the past 24 hours from Covid-19. This has raised the total number of deaths to 94,665. There are still 3,578 deaths under investigation.

The Ministry’s update also reported 16,641 new cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours. With this increase, the total number of infections since the start of the pandemic has reached 2,750,318.

Also according to the Ministry of Health’s daily bulletin, there are 743,334 patients under follow-up. To date, 1,912,319 people have recovered from the disease.

The lethality rate (number of deaths by the total number of cases) stood at 3.4 percent. The mortality rate (number of deaths per 100,000 inhabitants) reached 45. The incidence of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants stands at 1,308.8.

On Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, the disease-related daily records tend to be lower due to the challenge in feeding the databases by municipal and state Health Secretariats.

On Tuesdays, the figure is typically higher due to the updating of cases accumulated over the weekends.

The states with the highest death toll from the novel coronavirus are São Paulo (23,365), Rio de Janeiro (13,604), Ceará (7,752), Pernambuco (6,669), and Pará (5,784).

The states with the fewest deaths from the pandemic are Mato Grosso do Sul (421), Tocantins (402), Roraima (513), Acre (539), and Amapá (576).

Source: Agência Brasil

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