According to cnn website reported on the 13th, Brazil has recently become the storm center of the global epidemic, and it has set a new high of more than 4,000 deaths in a single day. According to the data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, as of 19:00 local time on April 13, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in Brazil was 13599994, an increase of 82,186 cases over the previous day; the cumulative number of deaths was 358425, an increase of 3,808 over the previous day. For the sixth consecutive month, the death toll in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro surpassed the number of births, a devastating indicator for the country.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in many parts of Brazil exceeds the number of births
The number of deaths exceeds the number of births
According to Brazil's national civil register, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's second-most populous city, died 36,437 people in March, 16 percent more than the 32,060 births that month. Last month, at least 10 other Brazilian cities with a population of more than 500,000 also had more deaths than births.
According to Johns Hopkins University, 77,515 people have died from COVID-19 in Brazil in the past month, and more than 2 million new cases have been diagnosed. According to the State Health Secretariat, 24 of Brazil's 27 states and the Federal District currently have an intensive care unit occupancy rate of 80 percent or higher.
The healthcare system is on the verge of collapse
Brazil's outbreak "heading for disaster"
So far, Brazil has become the second most affected country in the world. The U.N. office in Brazil has warned that Brazil is "heading for disaster." Due to vaccine shortages combined with a collapse of the healthcare system, Brazil accounts for a third of the world's deaths every day.
In order to speed up vaccination, Brazilian Senate Speaker Rodrigo Pacheco and House Speaker Arthur Lira confirmed that they had called UN Secretary-General Guterres on the 13th, hoping that the WHO-led COVAX program would increase and deliver COVID-19 vaccines to Brazil in advance to help fight the epidemic.
House Speaker Lila
The severe epidemic situation in Brazil stems from inadequate protective measures, and the P.1 variant has accelerated its spread in and around the country. France has suspended all flights to and from Brazil on the 13th.
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