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Posted on 09/15/2020 7:28 PM / Updated 09/15/2020 7:34 PM
(credit: Rovena Rosa / Agência Brasil)
After registering less than a thousand deaths a day from covid-19 for five days in a row, Brazil reconfirmed on Tuesday (9/15) more than a thousand deaths from the disease in the last 24 hours. From Monday (9/14) until today, the Ministry of Health confirmed more than 1,113 lives lost. With that, the country already has 133,119 deaths from the new coronavirus. In addition, 36,653 new cases have been confirmed. Since the start of the pandemic, 4,382,263 Brazilians have been infected by the virus.
With a mortality rate of 3%, Brazil sees that most of its states already add more than a thousand deaths each. Currently, 23 states have reached the milestone of 1,000 deaths each. Mato Grosso do Sul was the last to reach this level. The state, which totals 1,106 deaths, is ranked 23rd in the ranking of states that have lost the most lives to the disease to date.
Below Mato Grosso do Sul there are only four states, which are the only ones with less than a thousand deaths each. They are: Tocantins (822), Amapá (682), Acre (642), Roraima (611). At the top of the table, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are the only federative units with more than 10,000 deaths. The state of São Paulo leads the negative ranking of deaths from covid-19, with 32,963 lives lost by the new coronavirus; in Rio there are 17,180 victims.
They are followed by: Ceará (8,739), Pernambuco (7,914), Pará (6,387), Minas Gerais (6,328), Bahia (6,040), Rio Grande do Sul (4,174), Paraná (3,918), Amazonas (3,907), Goiás (3,885) ), Maranhão (3,601), Espírito Santo (3,372), Mato Grosso (3,124), Federal District (2,970), Paraíba (2,649), Santa Catarina (2,569), Rio Grande do Norte (2,326), Alagoas (1,991), Piauí (1.988), Sergipe (1.962) and Rondônia (1.269).
