Brazil registered this Tuesday 396 new deaths associated with the COVID-19the highest figure since March 17 (485), at a time when the country is experiencing a new rebound in the coronavirus pandemic, according to government data.
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Brazil, one of the nations hardest hit in the world by SARS-CoV-2, has already accumulated 672,429 deaths and 32,610,514 infected, after the 74,591 positives reported in the last day, according to the latest bulletin from the Brazilian Ministry of Health. .
The curve of infections and deaths began to rise in the last days of May and continued to rise in June, coinciding with the entry of the austral winter in the southern half of Brazil, which favors the circulation of respiratory diseases.
Currently, the daily average of deaths linked to COVID-19 is 226 in Brazil, while the number of cases is close to 60,000, averages that have not been observed since last March.
This Tuesday, the Minister of Justice of Brazil, Anderson Torres, reported that he tested positive for coronavirus, a few hours after having participated in a cabinet meeting called by President Jair Bolsonaro, who disdained the seriousness of the virus from the beginning.
On the other hand, epidemiological experts suspect that the real number of positives could be much higher given the widespread use of home tests that are sold in pharmacies.
The data maintains Brazil as the country with the second highest number of deaths from COVID-19, just behind the United States (1 million), and the third with the most infected, after the North American nation (86.7 million) and India. (43.5 million), according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
So far, 78% of the 213 million Brazilians have completed the vaccination schedule, while 47% have already received their first booster dose, according to official statistics.
The management of the pandemic in Brazil has been marked by the denialism of President Bolsonaro, who censored the isolation measures, minimized the severity of COVID-19 and even questioned the effectiveness of vaccines and masks.