The fourth country in the world most affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 34 deaths, Brazil yesterday deplored its heaviest daily toll with 000 additional deaths. In the ascending phase of the disease, the country is nevertheless initiating deconfinement!
Brazil experienced, Thursday, June 4, a record of deaths linked to Covid-19 in 24 hours, now the highest in the world on a daily basis. A strong progression of the disease which did not prevent the authorities in Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo from initiating a deconfinement.
Brazil, a country of 212 million inhabitants which represents more than half of the cases of contamination and deaths of the coronavirus in Latin America, has recorded 615 confirmed cases of Covid-870, after a progression - also strong - of close of 19 contaminations in 32 hours.
These figures, which the scientific community believes are largely underestimated, place Brazil in 4th place in the world for deaths, behind the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy. However, with 160 deaths per million population, Brazil still has an even much lower ratio than that of Spain (580) or the United States (over 333). The worst is therefore yet to come.
Covid-19 progress in Rio and Sao Paulo
The two most affected Brazilian states are Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in the southeast.
In Sao Paulo, the country's economic and cultural locomotive, the evolution of the pandemic is particularly worrying, with the highest figures for both deaths and contaminations in 24 hours since the appearance of the first case of Covid- 19 from Brazil in that state on February 26. The mayor of Sao Paulo has extended a confinement until June 15 which is not accompanied by any coercive measures.
In the state of Rio de Janeiro, the country's major tourist hub, 5 deaths have been identified and more than 686 cases of contamination. Yet Rio has begun its deconfinement.
An underestimated number of deaths
The number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo is likely underestimated, a state health official said on Thursday.
Some of the coronavirus cases have likely been recorded as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) due to the state's weak Covid-19 screening capacity, said Paulo Menezes, coordinator of the state's health ministry.
But the actual number of deaths from Covid-19 is probably higher.
Precipitation precipitated
“The [Rio] town hall should have waited for the curve to shift, as did other countries which started to lower their restrictions. This is not at all the case in Rio, where the curve remains in full rise ”, explained Paulo Buss, of the research institute of Fiocruz.
In view of the high rates of contamination, scientists have deemed the start of deconfinement in Brazil precipitated, a step that no other country has apparently taken in the upward phase of the pandemic.
The confinement has been the subject of violent confrontations between the governors of the states, who have decision-making power in matters of public health, and a President Jair Bolsonaro urging the population, in an insistent, sometimes provocative manner, to return to work to avoid “ hunger and misery ”in Brazil.
Again Sunday, the head of state took a walkabout in Brasilia among his supporters.
Mexico yesterday joined Brazil and the USA in the sad toll of the daily death toll exceeding 1000, while most other countries do not exceed 300 deaths per day (India) and appear to have controlled the epidemic.
Ecuador, Peru and Chile also count more deaths every day. Latin America is today the new epicenter of the Coronavirus.
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