Brazilone of the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, reached the end of the health emergency due to Covid-19 this Sunday after more than 665,000 Brazilians died from the virus for two years and three months, they reported. official sources.
The Ministry of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, announced the measure last April but set a deadline of 30 days for it to come into effect, so that the federal states and municipalities can adapt to the new reality in good time.
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The government then decided to lower the national alert level due to the “progress of the vaccination campaign” which allowed 77% of the 213 million Brazilians to be fully vaccinated and due to a “weaker” epidemiological scenario.
However, the South American country is currently experiencing a slight increase in SARS-CoV-2 cases, which is putting medical facilities on red alert again.
According to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), one of the most prestigious medical research centers in Latin America, Covid-19 infections are again the leading cause of hospitalizations for severe acute respiratory syndrome, at almost 42%, according to the records.
Despite this, Brazil It is today very far from the nearly 200,000 infected per day it recorded on average earlier this year, or the 3,000 deaths per day it recorded in April 2021, at the worst moment of the pandemic.
The current average of cases is nearly 14,000 positives and the death toll is nearly one hundred, according to the National Council of Secretaries of Health (Conass).
Brazil It is the second country in the world with the most coronavirus-related deaths (665,528) behind the United States and third with the highest number of cases (30.8 million) after the North American power and India.
The pandemic was drawn Brazil for the erratic management of President Jair Bolsonaro’s administration, which dubbed Covid-19 a “little flu,” censored social distancing measures, and questioned the effectiveness of masks and vaccines to fight the virus.