Brazil, one of the countries most affected by the corona pandemicit arrived this sunday at the end of the health emergency due to COVID-19after two years and three months, during which more than 665,000 Brazilians have died from the virus, official sources reported.
Health Minister 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 local authorities can adapt to the new reality in good time.
The government then decided to lower the national alert level due to the “Progress of the vaccination campaign”allowing 77% of the 213 million Brazilians to comply with the full directive and due to a “weaker” epidemiological scenario.
However, the South American country is currently experiencing a slight rebound in SARS-CoV-2 cases, which has put medical facilities on 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 today is very far from whatThat’s almost 200,000 infected per day on average earlier this year, or the 3,000 deaths per day recorded in April 2021at the worst moment of the pandemic.
The current average number of cases is approx 14,000 positives and the death toll is close to a hundredaccording to the National Council of Secretary of Health (Conass).
Brazil is the second largest country in the world after the United States with the most deaths related to the coronavirus (665,528) and the third largest with the most cases (30.8 million) after the North American power and India.
The pandemic has been marked in Brazil by the unpredictable management of President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, which has dubbed COVID-19 a “little flu,” censored social distancing measures, and questioned the effectiveness of masks and vaccines to fight the virus. (I)