People wearing face masks walk on the street in Sao Paulo, Brazil
BRASILIA, May 5 (NNN-Xinhua) — Brazil on Tuesday reported 2,966 new deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the nationwide death toll to 411,588, according to its health ministry.
Meanwhile, 77,359 new COVID-19 cases were detected, bringing the accumulated caseload to 14,856,888.
Brazil now has the world’s second-highest COVID-19 death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest outbreak, behind the United States and India.
According to the health ministry, Brazil now has a rate of 196 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants and 7,070 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants.
Sao Paulo, the country’s most populous state, is the hardest-hit, with 98,021 deaths and 2,941,980 infections, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 45,232 deaths and 753,732 cases.
According to a consortium of media outlets, Brazil had vaccinated 48.5 million people against COVID-19 as of Monday.
The country’s first case was detected on Feb. 26, 2020.
Meanwhile, ARGENTINA on Tuesday reported 412 more deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the pandemic death toll to 65,202.
A total 26,238 new infections were reported over the same period, bringing the national count to 3,047,417, the country’s health ministry said.
The South American country has administered 8,327,751 doses of COVID-19 vaccines since the start of its vaccination campaign on Dec. 29, 2020.
Health Minister Carla Vizzotti, during a visit to the northwestern province of Salta, announced the region is receiving 10 new ventilators to better tackle the current second wave of COVID-19 infections, adding to the 123 ventilators already sent to Salta since last year.
National and provincial authorities are “applying the lessons learned last year” in dealing with the outbreak, said Vizzotti, stressing the importance of self-care measures to minimize the transmission of the virus. — NNN-XINHUA
