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According to the Ministry of Health on Friday 539,903 new infections were registered last week and 17,798 died from complications of the disease caused by the Covid-19 virus.. In terms of both the number of infected and the number of deaths, this is the fourth week since the epidemic began that these rates are the highest, respectively.
The day before, the number of infected people increased by 70,238 to 12,910,082 and there were 2,992 deaths. The number of fatalities thus amounted to 328,206.
There are 6,143 cases of infection and 156 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
The first infected coronavirus was registered in the most populous country in Latin America on February 26 of last year. This year, on March 12, the country again climbed to second place behind the United States in terms of the number of infected, ahead of India. It also ranks second after the United States in terms of number of deaths.
Maria Van Kerkhove, an expert with the World Health Organization (WHO), warned Thursday that Brazil faces an extremely serious epidemiological situation. The epidemic is in crisis in several Brazilian states and hospitals are overcrowded.
According to Van Kerkhove, the saturation of various health institutions already exceeds 90 percent.
Brazil, where a much more contagious variant of the coronavirus is spreading than before, has become one of the epicenters of the pandemic in the world.
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