With 2,009 deaths in the last 24 hours, Brazil surpasses 300,000 Covid-19 fatalities (March 24th)

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – As Brazil faces one of the worst moments of the Covid-19 pandemic, with several states reporting collapse in the health care system, the country reached 300,000 COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, March 24th.

According to data from the Ministry of Health, 2,009 deaths from the new coronavirus were registered in the last 24 hours and, with this, the total reached 300,685.

According to the report released late Wednesday afternoon, 89,992 more cases were reported in the country in the last 24 hours and, with this, the total number of infected people in the country reached 12,220,011.

The first death occurred one year ago

A little more than a year ago, in March 2020, São Paulo registered the first death in the country. In April, the number of deaths in Brazil passed one thousand. The first 100,000 were noted in August 2020 and 200,000 in January this year.

According to Johns Hopkins University, in cumulative numbers, Brazil is the second country in the ranking of deaths and cases, behind only the United States. The United States registers, according to the university’s monitoring platform, 543,849 deaths and 29,923,370 cases of the disease.

São Paulo is the Brazilian state with the highest concentration of deaths and cases, with 68,904 and 12,191,346, respectively. Minas Gerais comes next, with 1,053,994 cases and 22,497 deaths.

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