The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 41,273 cases had been confirmed in the previous 24 hours. Two weeks earlier, the number was 10,415, ranging between 10,000 and 20,000 in April.
Outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2 have risen in recent weeks in Brazil, raising concerns among scientists that a fourth wave of the pandemic is occurring in the country, which has the second-highest COVID-19 death toll in the world.
The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 41,273 cases had been confirmed in the previous 24 hours. Two weeks earlier, the number was 10,415, ranging between 10,000 and 20,000 in April.
Epidemiologists are already talking about a fourth wave as winter approaches in the southern hemisphere, particularly affecting the south of the country where the pandemic has claimed the lives of nearly 667,000 people since its outbreak in March 2020. It is the second highest death toll in the world. , behind only the US.
The increase in cases “is explained by the abolition of the measure of compulsory use of the mask indoors, the arrival of the period when the weather is colder, the appearance of variations of Omicron (…) and the fact that a relatively low percentage of the population has received “according to Ethel Masiel, an epidemiologist at the Federal University of Espirito Santo.”
Another 127 patients died in 24 hours in the country of 213 million inhabitants, according to official statistics.
The government of the state of Sao Paulo (46 million inhabitants), again this week advised citizens to wear masks in closed countries, as in May the admission of patients with COVID-19 to hospitals increased by 120%.
Almost 80% of the population of Brazil has been fully vaccinated, however the number of people who have received a booster dose does not exceed 93 million, while only 3.5 million Brazilians have received a second booster dose so far.
