Brazil reached 649,630 deaths as a result of covid-19, the Ministry of Health reported today (1). of the pandemic. Yesterday (28), the pandemic information panel administered by the ministry had 28,787,620 accumulated cases.
The number of cases under follow-up is 1,655,530. The term is given to designate cases reported in the last 14 days that were neither discharged nor progressed to death.
There are still 3,116 deaths under investigation. The deaths under investigation occur due to the fact that there are cases in which the patient died, but the investigation into the cause of covid-19 is still ongoing.
To date, 26,506,005 people have recovered from Covid-19, according to official data. The number corresponds to 92% of those infected since the beginning of the pandemic.
The numbers of new cases and deaths in general are lower on Sundays, Mondays and the days following holidays due to the reduction of teams to feed the data.
States
According to the balance sheet of the Ministry of Health, at the top of the ranking of states with the most deaths from covid-19 recorded so far are São Paulo (164,613), Rio de Janeiro (71,781), Minas Gerais (59,647), Paraná (42,330) and Rio Grande do Sul (38,272).
The states with the fewest deaths resulting from the pandemic are Acre (1,974), Amapá (2,102), Roraima (2,134), Tocantins (4,109) and Sergipe (6,254). Today, data from the Federal District, Mato Grosso, Rio Grande do Sul and Tocantins have not been updated.
