Brazil closed this Saturday its worst week since the start of the pandemic, accounting for more than 770,000 coronavirus infections in the last seven days.
According to the country’s health authorities, in the last month the daily cases of Covid-19 have increased by 40 percent.
The previous record for daily infections in a week was 539,000 and was set in March last year, during the second wave of the pandemic.
Brazil registered for the fourth day in a row more than 150,000 new cases of the new coronavirus disease.
According to the balance of the National Council of Health Secretaries (Conass) in the last 24 hours, 157,393 new infections and 238 deaths from the coronavirus were registered.
With these figures, the country accumulated a total of 622,801 deaths from the pandemic, in addition to 23,909,175 infections.
According to Conass, Brazil has a fatality rate of 296.4 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, while the rate of positives is 11,377.4 per 100,000 people.
Brazil remains the second country in the world with the most deaths from Covid-19, only surpassed by the United States, and the third in number of cases, behind the United States and India.
