Brazil has 709,601 deaths from Covid complications

In total, 38,374,307 people have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic; there were 36,154 new cases in the last epidemiological week

O Conass (National Council of Health Secretaries) reported on Thursday (8.Feb.2024) that they were registered 194 deaths from complications of covid-19 in the last epidemiological week (January 28th to February 3rd). 36,154 were counted new cases in the same period.

Altogether, they are 709,601 deaths from the disease in Brazil since the beginning of the pandemic (2020). In total, they are 38,374,307 confirmed diagnoses.

Already under the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), the Ministry of Health stopped publishing the daily bulletin with the number of cases and deaths from covid. Now, the data is released weekly – divided by epidemiological weeks. The decision was taken in February 2023. The reason: the change in frequency “optimize” the work of surveillance teams in the Federation units and “there is no longer any reason for daily notification”according to Conass.

The last week recorded, which ended on February 3, was the 25th with the fewest deaths recorded since the start of the pandemic. The most recent wave (peak of cases and deaths from the disease) was recorded in February 2022, when the total for the week exceeded 6,000 deaths.

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PROPORTIONAL DEATHS

Brazil records 3,494 deaths per million. Among the Federation units, the worst situation is Rio de Janeiro, with 4,849 victims per million. The rates consider the number of deaths confirmed by the Ministry of Health and the population from the 2022 Demographic Census of IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) in each unit of the Federation.

RANKING WORLDWIDE

Brazil occupies the 16th position in the ranking worldwide proportion of deaths from Covid. The list is led by Peru, with 6,508 deaths per million. It is followed by Bulgaria (5,704), Bosnia and Herzegovina (5,066) and Hungary (4,918).

The United States leads in the absolute number of deaths from the disease. In total, records were 1,170,784 Covid deaths in the country since February 2020, according to data from the Our World in Data.

O ranking of proportional deaths (below) should be read with caution, as there is high underreporting of deaths from the disease and, in some countries, underreporting is greater than in others.

Study published in the magazine Lancet in 2022 shows that although the countries' official count showed 6 million deaths, the most accurate estimate is that 18 million lives were claimed by covid in 2020 and 2021.

India, for example, is known for underreporting. The count of Our World in Data show 533,454 dead by February 4, 2024. The study of Lancethowever, estimates that more than 4 million have died in the country.

China is another country for which data is not trusted, as are Indonesia, Russia and most countries in Africa.