Brazil exceeds 5,900 deaths from COVID-19, with more than 85,000 cases
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate in Brazil and in the last 24 hours, 435 new deaths were registered in the country, bringing the total number of deaths to 5,901, according to the Ministry of Health reported on Thursday.
The daily situation bulletin issued by that office says that, since the day before, 7,218 new cases were also confirmed, the highest number in a single day recorded in Brazil so far, which brought the total number of infected to 85,380.
The state of Sao Paulo, the most populous in the country, with 46 million inhabitants, remains the most affected by the pandemic, which has led the local authorities to suspend their intention to go towards a partial lifting of the measures that For more than a month, they restrict circulation and economic activities.
According to the Ministry of Health, until this Thursday Sao Paulo had 28,698 confirmed coronavirus cases, with 2,375 deaths.
The health authorities are also concerned about the situation in Rio de Janeiro, where the local government has already warned that the hospital system will collapse in the coming days.
The epidemiological bulletin says that in Rio de Janeiro there are 9,453 people infected and that 854 deaths have been verified by COVID-19.
The pandemic is also advancing in the northeast of this country of 210 million inhabitants, with special incidence in the states of Ceará and Pernambuco, where 482 and 565 cases of deceased people have been registered, respectively.
According to the Ministry of Health, another focus of attention continues in the Amazonas state, which borders Venezuela, Colombia and Peru and whose capital, Manaus, has already declared itself in "sanitary and funeral collapse", since both the capacity of the hospitals as from the cemeteries it has been overflowed.
That region located in the middle of the Amazon has about four million inhabitants and, until this Thursday, it has registered a total of 5,254 infections and 425 deaths, although, as well as in other areas of Brazil, the figures are suspected to be much higher, due to the underreporting and the paucity of tests for the coronavirus.
According to the Covid-19 Brazil portal, which brings together scientists and students from various national universities, the situation in the country may be much worse than reflected in official balances, due to high levels of underreporting.
According to that portal, the number of infected in the country could already have passed 1.2 million, even higher than that of the United States, the nation most affected by the pandemic in the world, at least until today.
