Brazil’s total number of deaths as a result of the Covid-19 has on Friday passed the Uk and is now the second-highest globally after the UNITED states.
It shows figures from Brazil’s ministry of health on Friday, according to news agency Reuters.
The last 24 hours, there is registered a further 909 deaths, which brings Brazil’s total up on 41.828.
In the same period, the number of infected persons increased by almost 26,000 people, bringing the total number of smittetilfælde up on the good 828.000. Which is a little over 365.000 registered healthy again.
the Uk has registered 41.566 deaths, according to a current statement from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the UNITED states.
the UNITED states has the most deaths in the world with almost 115.000.
Converted the numbers in relation to population size, Britain is the worst affected country of the three with about 63 dead per 100,000 inhabitants.
In Brazil, which has about 210 million inhabitants, is the number 20, while the UNITED states is up around 35 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
While the number of dead and infected is slowing in Europe, makes the opposite trend in Brazil and several other south and central american countries.
In all, more than 70,000 died in South and central america with Brazil as the new epicenter, writes news agency AFP.
health experts in Brazil, according to Reuters warned that the real number smittetilfælde can be 10-15 times higher than the official figures.
the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has previously equated the outbreak of the new coronavirus with a ‘little flu’.
Bolsonaro has also criticized the political leaders of the country’s states to implement the closures and to introduce other measures to reduce the risk of infections.
Coronavirusset appeared originally up at the end of last year in China.
