Covid-19: Brazil Records 1,270 New Deaths, Toll Now Exceeds 70,000 (July 10th)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yesterday, Brazil passed the 70,000 deaths mark from the novel coronavirus. According to a survey by the media outlets consortium, there were 1,270 deaths recorded until 8 PM (Brasília time) yesterday. A total of 45,235 new cases was also registered.

The media consortium also pointed out that Brazil has passed 1.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19. A total of 45,235 new diagnoses over the past 24 hours have been reported throughout the country.

Of the deaths registered yesterday, 586 occurred in the Southeast, 345 in the Northeast, 123 in the Midwest, 108 in the North, and 108 more in the South, a region that beat record deaths for the third consecutive day.

In relation to the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic, the Southeast also leads the ranking with 32,193 deaths, the equivalent of 46 percent of victims nationwide. The Northeast follows with 22,781 deaths (32 percent). In the North, there were 10,413 victims (15 percent). Next comes the Midwest, with 2,798 deaths (four percent), and the South, with 2,339 (three percent).

Government report shows more than 1,200 deaths for the 4th straight day

The Ministry of Health’s new daily balance reported 1,214 new deaths over the past 24 hours, raising the total to 70,398. This was the fourth consecutive day that the portfolio recorded over 1,200 deaths.

In addition to the death toll, the diagnostics for Covid-19 also showed another advanced stage of the pandemic in Brazil. According to the federal government, there were 45,048 recorded cases between Thursday and Friday. As a result, the total number of infections in the country reached 1,800,827.

Still according to the Ministry, Brazil today has 651,666 patients under follow-up while the number of recovered patients reached 1,078,763.

Cases quadruple in Minas Gerais; Federal District is under control

Minas Gerais is in the midst of a worrying time, heading towards the estimated peak of Covid-19 on July 15th: in one month, the number of confirmed cases in the state has quadrupled. The report provided yesterday by the authorities shows that 70,086 residents have tested positive for the disease since the start of the pandemic. On June 10th, this figure stood at 17,501.

Eduardo Hage, the under-secretary for Health Regulation, said the Federal District is heading toward a plateau in cases. On Thursday, it was reported that eight out of 10 people diagnosed with Covid-19 in the Federal District have recovered. In general, out of 64,314 confirmed cases, 50,879 patients are cured – 79.1 percent of the total. “We still can’t talk about case reduction, we need to analyze this week, but cases should stabilize soon,” Hage said.

Currently, Brasília is the city with the most infections per capita in the country, with 2,133 confirmed cases per 100,000 residents, more than twice as many as the metropolitan area of São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health. The city reopened its establishments last Tuesday, but on Thursday the Federal District government retreated after new assessments.

São Paulo: quarantine extended until July 30th

The governor of São Paulo, João Doria, yesterday submitted an update on the plan to gradually reopen economic activities. The state has made progress and now only four regions are in the red phase, with greater restrictions. The quarantine in São Paulo has been extended. The new period of social isolation in the state runs from July 15th to 30th.

The capital’s City Hall released new results of the serological survey on Covid-19. The data show that coronavirus infection was higher among the city’s mixed-race and poor population and that 9.8 percent of residents contracted the virus.

Completing the profile of infection in the capital of São Paulo, a survey by Rede Nossa São Paulo showed that neighborhoods with fewer formal jobs recorded more deaths from the coronavirus, demonstrating that the proportional amount of formal jobs in each neighborhood and the average income of these regions have directly influenced the number of deaths by Covid-19.

Source: UOL