Brazil enters the list of the 6 countries that crossed the 10,000 deaths by Covid-19; see comparative | Coronavirus

Covid-19 killed 10,017 people in Brazil, making the country the sixth deadliest due to the disease, behind the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and France. The first official death of the new coronavirus in Brazil occurred 53 days ago. Since the initial registration, the country has reached more than 146 thousand infected.

Like Brazil, other countries have seen the number of cases and deaths increase and are part of the group with more than 10,000 Covid-19 victims. In all of them, measures were taken to stop the spread of the disease, although attitudes against social isolation were common:

• With a less rigid quarantine at the beginning of the epidemic, Italy saw its death toll rise rapidly and even became the epicenter of the disease in Europe.
• The United Kingdom took a long time to find an effective response to the disease and bet on alternative forms of fighting, such as immunizing herds, and became the country with the most deaths on the continent.
• Germany took longer than Italy to implement measures of social distance, but the good preparation of its health system helped guarantee less lethality and the country already plans to reopen it.
• The United States was slow to implement isolation actions, and when massive tests were carried out, the country appeared as the new epicenter of the disease in the world.
• When Spain became one of the countries most affected by Covid-19, the Spanish government decided to enact an emergency and make isolation mandatory.
• Expected to last only 15 days, the French government has extended the isolation for at least 6 weeks due to the spread of the disease in the country.

Researchers after the coronavirus outbreak worldwide (read below) They point out that the rate of confirmed cases in the countries depends on the testing policy adopted in each country, and also on the amount of equipment available.

Furthermore, experts reinforce that each country has a specific scenario to combat the pandemic and that containment measures must take into account local specificities.

See below the landmarks of the countries with the most victims of Covid-19:

• 03/17 – First confirmed death in São Paulo
• 08/05 – Daily peak of deaths (827; according to the count of the Ministry of Health, there were 751)
• 05/08 – The country reaches more than 10,000 cases

Brazil completed more than 10,000 deaths while beginning to have more severe isolation measures in areas that are already experiencing an overload on the health system, such as cities in the north and northeast of the country.

On Tuesday (5), the government of Pará decreed a confinement in the capital, Belém, and in other important cities of the state. In the northeast region, Maranhão and Ceará also enacted similar measures. In São Paulo, the state where Covid-19 was first confirmed in the country, measures of social distance and the closing of non-essential businesses were expanded.

The Health Ministry says there is no way to know exactly how many people were infected with the new coronavirus in the country. Without massive testing, most asymptomatic patients or those with mild symptoms are not evaluated and the priority is for critically ill patients.

• 03/15 – First death in France
• 04/07 – Daily peak of deaths (1,417)
• 04/07 – The country registers 10,328 deaths

THE France recorded its first Covid-19 death on February 15. The daily peak of cases occurred 53 days later, and in 24 hours, the country counted 1,417 dead, the same day in which it exceeded the 10,000 deaths mark.

The European country came to extend the term of the isolation measures to contain the spread of the disease and, due to blockages, France saw a drop in hospitalizations and has already announced the reopening of schools from Monday (11).

• 03/03 – First confirmed death in Spain
• 04/02 – Country records the daily peak of deaths (1,417)
• 04/02 – The country reaches 10,328 deaths

On March 3, Spain recorded its first death from complications of Covid-19, just one month later, the country already represented 10,348. The same day, April 2, he arrived at the peak of deaths, registering 961 victims in 24 hours.

The country was one of those who took more controlled isolation measures across the European continent. With the drop in the number of infected and the reduction in daily death counts, the country is already gradually reopening.

On Sunday (3), residents were able to leave the house to walk and play individual sports, for the first time in more than 1 month.

• 02/23 – First confirmed death in Italy
• 03/27 – Death Peak (919)
• 03/28 – Reached 10,023 deaths in Italy

For the longest time, the most affected country in Europe, Italy, had its first death on February 21. Almost 5 weeks later, the country had already exceeded 10,000 victims of the new coronavirus. A day after reaching the daily peak of 919 deaths, the Italian government counted 10,023 Covid-19 victims.

The country was slow to respond to the emergency and prevented regional governments from taking individual isolation measures. The decision affected the way the country faced the epidemic and until May 9, Italy recorded more than 30,000 deaths.

• 03/06 – First confirmed death in the UK
• 04/10 – The country reaches 10,760 deaths
• 04/21 – Peak of death in the UK (1,172)

The country initially opted for a vertical isolation and commitment to immunization of the herd, but returned seeing the projections of cases and deaths increase in the country that surpassed Italy and became the one with the most cases across Europe, so far there are more than xxxx thousand deaths.

The UK represented her first death on March 6, and little more than 1 month later, he marked the 10,760 victims. The peak came a few days later, on April 21, when the country recorded 1,172 deaths in just 24 hours.

• 02/29 – First confirmed death in the United States
• 04/04 – The country has 10,855 deaths
• 04/29 – Peak of Deaths (2,612)

The United States recorded its first death in late February, but in just 36 days the country exceeded 10,000. On April 4, the US government. USA He announced the count of 10,855 deaths, but was still far from reaching the peak of the disease so far.

On April 29, the country had the highest daily number of deaths, at 2,612, but the United States has existed for more than 1 month with a daily count of over 1,000. Most of the victims, more than 25,000, are concentrated in New York City, which has suffered a collapse in its health and funeral system.

President Donald Trump changed his speech several times during the epidemic and went so far as to say that he would end isolation measures in the United States before Easter. He stepped back and guaranteed that he would not finish the measures “hastily.” The country today has more than xxxxx million confirmed cases of the disease.

Subinformation and governance

Domingos Alves, professor at the USP School of Medicine in Ribeirão Preto, told the G1 that in Brazil, underreporting makes it difficult to monitor the epidemic and develop policies to combat and protect it.

“The government must start publishing more reliable and more structured data so that the epidemic can be monitored” – Domingos Alves, professor at FMRP.

It still estimates that deaths in the country are already more than 10,000.

For the former director of the Adolfo Lutz Institute and epidemiologist at the USP School of Public Health, Eliseu Waldman, the high rates in the US. USA They are unexpected but, according to him, they accompany poor governance in the country.

“Initially the pandemic was not expected to achieve results in the dimensions it has reached in the United States” – Eliseu Waldman, epidemiologist.

It justifies the surprise because, being one of the largest economies in the world and having a very effective health surveillance system, the response from the United States was expected to be effective. But the researcher points out that one of the country’s weak points is its non-universal health system.

Waldman also noted that Belgium, a small country with a good health structure, took the risk at first by not taking stricter control and isolation measures. For him, this is also one of the reasons that placed the country among the most affected in all of Europe.