Brazil reached this Saturday (19) 28,167,587 people infected with the new coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic. There were 108,725 new positive diagnoses in 24 hours.
The total number of deaths caused as a result of complications associated with covid-19 reached 643,880. Between yesterday and today, 851 deaths were reported.
The number of cases being monitored for covid-19 is 2,573,925. The term is given to designate cases reported in the last 14 days that were neither discharged nor progressed to death.
There are still 3,105 deaths under investigation. The deaths under investigation occur because there are cases in which the patient died, but the investigation if the cause was covid-19 still requires further tests and procedures.
To date, 24,949,782 people have recovered from Covid-19. The number corresponds to 88.6% of those infected since the beginning of the pandemic.
States
According to the balance 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 (163,134), Rio de Janeiro (71,278), Minas Gerais (58,995), Paraná (42,040) and Rio Grande do Sul (37,882).
The states with the fewest deaths resulting from the pandemic are Acre (1,953), Amapá (2,097), Roraima (2,124), Tocantins (4,086) and Sergipe (6,210).
Vaccination
The latest data released by the Ministry of Health indicate that 379.2 million doses of vaccines were applied against covid-19, 170.8 million with the first dose and 155.4 million with the second dose or single dose. Another 47.8 million have already received the booster dose.