by João Marcelo
SAO PAULO – Brazil recorded a new record in the number of deaths due to COVID-19 on Tuesday. There were 4,195 lives lost according to data from the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass). In addition to overcoming the 4,000 daily deaths for the first time, the brand surpassed last week’s figures, when 3,869 deaths were reported on Wednesday, March 31.
With the update, the country reaches 336,947 deaths from the disease. The Conass survey, which gathers data from the health departments of the 26 states and the Federal District, also pointed out 86,979 new cases of covid-19 in 24 hours, with a total of 13,100,580 records in more than a year of the pandemic. According to data from the Our World in Data platform, associated with the University of Oxford, only two other countries have already had more than 4,000 victims of the disease in a single day, the United States, in January this year, and Peru, in August 2020.
These numbers were pulled by data from the state of São Paulo, which registered another 1,139 deaths by Covid-19 this Tuesday, a record number in the state. According to the State Department of Health, the update contains data accumulated since the holiday of last Friday, the 2nd. Experts across the country say that a Lockdown would be an effective measure to curb these numbers, in addition to the acceleration in the pace of vaccination is also critical to this goal.
According to an article published by the newspaper Poder 360, a projection made by scientists and researchers from a study center linked to the University of Washington, in the United States, points out that, on July 1, Brazil may have accumulated 562,863 deaths caused by covid -19. For April alone, the estimate is another 100,000 deaths.
This estimate is reinforced by the physician Miguel Nicolelis, full professor at Duke University (USA). For the scientist, if restrictive measures are not implemented immediately,