Brazil Hits 500,000 Deaths by Covid [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

The country is the second in the world to surpass the figure and has not yet managed to contain the spread of the virus

Jun.19.2021 4:18PM

Everton Lopes Batista

SÃO PAULO
Brazil has hit the mark of half a million deaths by Covid-19 this Saturday (19), according to official records from the local health departments of the states, gathered by the consortium of Brazilian press vehicles. The real number, however, must be even higher, since not all of those infected do indeed take the test to detect the presence of the coronavirus.

With that, Brazil becomes the second country to surpass the mark of 500 thousand deaths by the virus. The United States had done it previously, surpassing 600 thousand deaths on June 15. The difference is that, over there, over 148 million Americans (45% of the population) are currently immunized; around here, this number is around 24 million Brazilians (11% of the population).

With vaccination still at a slow pace, the virus keeps spreading to all regions. In the last week, there was an average of 2,000 deaths per day from the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus. The daily average of new cases is around 70 thousand, which qualifies the current moment among the worst ones in the pandemic.

Since the first record of the disease in the country, in February 2020, over 17.8 million people have been infected by Sars-CoV-2 in Brazil — a number that is probably also underestimated.

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