BRASILIA, Aug 31 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Brazilian government said Sunday that 566 deaths were reported over the past 24 hours, bringing to 120,828 the national death toll of COVID-19.
The Health Ministry said that a total of 3,862,311 cases have been reported, up by 16,158 cases from the previous day.
In recent days, Brazil managed to slightly reduce the average daily deaths caused by the pandemic, although the number of infections increased considerably.
Brazil is one of the countries hardest hit by the COVID-19, second only to the United States in terms of cases and deaths.
Brazil’s most populated state, Sao Paulo has recorded 803,404 COVID-19 cases and 29,978 deaths, the highest in the country, followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 223,302 cases and 16,027 deaths, and Ceara, with 214,457 cases and 8,384 deaths. Endit
COLOMBIA’s caseload rose to 607,938 on Sunday after tests detected 8,024 new cases of infection in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Protection.
The death toll climbed to 19,364 after 300 more people died of the disease in the same period.
President Ivan Duque called on the public to comply with social distancing and staying-at-home recommendations for suspected COVID-19 sufferers as strict lockdown measures are set to be lifted Tuesday throughout the country to reactivate the economy.
“We are on the verge of starting a new phase this week: selective isolation with responsible individual distancing. We know that what will mark our success is going to be responsibility shared among what the government does, what employers do and what we all do in our family and individual orbit,” Duque said.
Duque announced earlier that lockdown restrictions would be eased starting September.
MEXICO reported on Sunday 4,129 more COVID-19 cases and 339 additional deaths, taking its national tally to 595,841 and death toll to 64,158, its health ministry said.
Mexico now has the third-largest COVID-19 death toll, only after the United States and Brazil. The government has said the real number of infections is likely significantly higher than the confirmed cases.
Mexico’s economy is facing a “high degree of uncertainty” as it is still difficult to predict the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact that the virus containment measures will have, Banxico, the central bank of Mexico, said in a report on Wednesday.
The country’s gross domestic product fell 18.7 percent in the second quarter compared with the same period of 2019, weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC health authorities reported on Sunday that the number of cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country has risen to 94,241, with 1,681 deaths.
The Ministry of Public Health stated in a release that 509 new cases and eight more deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
Of the confirmed active cases, 7,480 are in hospital isolation and 18,304 in self-quarantine at home.
Of those hospitalized, 220 are being treated in intensive care units.
Meanwhile, 66,776 patients have recovered. — NNN-XINHUA
