{"id":121417,"date":"2021-05-05T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T03:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121417"},"modified":"2021-05-05T14:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T06:11:22","slug":"121417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121417","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Brazil&#8217;s death toll tops 410,000; Argentina&#8217;s pass 65,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-05\/05\/139925454_16201842886591n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">People wearing face masks walk on the street in Sao Paulo, Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRASILIA, May 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, 77,359 new COVID-19 cases were detected, bringing the accumulated caseload to 14,856,888.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil now has the world&#8217;s second-highest COVID-19 death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest outbreak, behind the United States and India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sao Paulo, the country&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a consortium of media outlets, Brazil had vaccinated 48.5 million people against COVID-19 as of Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country&#8217;s first case was detected on Feb. 26, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, ARGENTINA on Tuesday reported 412 more deaths from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, raising the pandemic death toll to 65,202.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total 26,238 new infections were reported over the same period, bringing the national count to 3,047,417, the country&#8217;s health ministry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National and provincial authorities are &#8220;applying the lessons learned last year&#8221; in dealing with the outbreak, said Vizzotti, stressing the importance of self-care measures to minimize the transmission of the virus. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People wearing face masks walk on the street in Sao Paulo, Brazil BRASILIA, May 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121419,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121417"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}