[ad_1]
The increase in the number of deaths in Brazil was 3.7%, going from 7,025 on Sunday to 7,288 today. Regarding the number of infected, the growth was 4%, going from 101,147 to 105,222 confirmed cases.
According to Tutela, the fatality rate of the disease in the country is still today at 6.9%.
São Paulo, the epicenter of covid-19 in the country, officially totals 2,654 dead and 32,187 infected.
It was followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 1,065 deaths and 11,721 cases of infection, Pernambuco, with 691 deaths and 8,863 cases, Ceará, with also 691 deaths and 8,501 infected, and Amazonas, with a total of 585 deaths and 7,313. people diagnosed with covid-19.
At the regional level, southeastern Brazil, which includes São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, is the most affected region in the country, with 49,417 cases of the disease. On the opposite side is the Midwest, which concentrates 3,247 cases of infection with the new coronavirus.
Globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency, the covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 249,000 deaths and infected more than 3.5 million people in 195 countries and territories.
More than a million patients were considered cured.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
