Brazil, the current global epicenter of the covid pandemic, surpassed India in infection rates and became the second country with the most cases of the disease in the world, surpassed only by the United States.
The Latin American giant, which is also the second in number of deaths from coronavirus in the world, including after the United States, registered 85,663 new infections on Friday, the second-highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic. accumulated with 11,363. 380 infected.
By that number, Brazil had already surpassed India in the number of infected up to Friday, as the Asian country accounted for 11,308,846 cases at the time, but the Indian government has already announced its total number of new cases (24,882) this Saturday, thus revealing itself. The accrued date (11,333,728) was also among the Brazilian.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the United States remains the first country in the world with the number of covid infections with 29.35 million cases, now followed by Brazil (11.36 million), India (11.33 million), Russia ( 4.33 million). million), the United Kingdom (4.26 million), France (4.07 million) and Spain (3.18 million).
With the pandemic spiraling out of control in Brazil and stabilizing in India, the trend is that the difference between the South American nation and the Asian nation will continue to increase in numbers in the coming days.
This is because the average number of cases in the past week in Brazil hit a record high on Thursday, 70,593 per day, with a 55.25% jump from the weekly average recorded a month ago (45,470 daily infections on Feb. 12.).
Brazil had ranked second in the number of infections in the world for several weeks, but was outperformed by India last September, when that country faced a resurgence of the pandemic.
In terms of deaths, numbers in Brazil should also continue to grow in the coming days, according to the country’s current pandemic death curve.
The country recorded 2,216 new deaths from the disease on Friday, leading to three consecutive days of more than 2,200 daily victims and 275,105 deaths since the onset of the health crisis.
Friday was the third highest number of deaths from coronavirus in one day in Brazil since the start of the pandemic, after 2,286 recorded on Wednesday and 2,233 on Thursday, bringing the average number of deaths in the past week to 1,762 per day. .
The average number of deaths in Brazil in the past week was 65.47% higher than the average of a month ago (1,065 daily victims on February 12), confirming that the pandemic in Brazil continues to worsen, while it is continuing in much of the world is stabilizing.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the list of countries with the most deaths from covid is also topped by the United States (532,593) and Brazil (275,105), followed by Mexico (193,851), India (158,446), United Kingdom (125,580) ).) and Italy (101564).
The high averages of the past few days confirm that Brazil is currently suffering from a new wave of the pandemic, more virulent and deadlier, partly caused by the circulation of new strains of the virus, including the Brazilian variety that originated in the Amazon region, according to for researchers it is three times more contagious than the original.
Brazil, with its 210 million inhabitants, has just under 3% of the world’s population, but accumulates 10.4% of deaths from coronavirus worldwide and 9.5% of the total number of infected.
The percentage of infected Brazilians rises to 15% of the total in the world if only data from the past two weeks are included, according to a report released on Friday by the organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF).