World Health Organization Urges Brazil to Take Covid-19 Surge “Very Seriously”
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Monday urged Brazil to be “very, very serious” about its rising coronavirus infection numbers, a trend that W.H.O. Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described as “very, very worrisome”.
Brazil has the second-highest number of deaths by Covid-19 in the world, behind only the United States. Over 6.3 million people have been infected and almost 173,000 have died from the virus in the country, according to Ministry of Health data.
The daily rolling average of deaths caused by the novel coronavirus in Brazil stood at 522 on Sunday, November 29th. This average considers data from the past seven days and avoids distortions caused by the daily record variations. In total, 6,313,656 people have been infected with the disease and 172,848 have died from Covid-19.
In the past 24 hours, another 23,496 cases and 261 deaths were recorded, according to a survey conducted by news outlets Estadão, G1, O Globo, Extra, Folha, and UOL with the state Health Secretariats. The Ministry of Health’s balance shows that 5,578,118 people have recovered and another 563,789 are under follow-up.
Source: Estadão Conteúdo
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