This is Brazil by the Numbers, a weekly digest of the most interesting figures tucked inside the latest news about Brazil. A selection of numbers that help explain what is going on in Brazil. This week’s topic is, of course, the different ways in which the novel coronavirus has impacted our country.
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1,020 coronavirus infections, 18 deaths
Brazil’s Health Ministry has confirmed at least 1,020 Covid-19 infections in Brazil. The cases are spread across every Brazilian state — except for Roraima in the North. So far, 18 deaths have been linked to the novel coronavirus. Unsurprisingly, Brazil’s two biggest metropolitan regions São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have concentrated the bulk of infections—and all deaths. But the virus is spreading fast in the country, which has not shown the capacity nor the means to promote widespread testing in order to assess the real number of cases. “We have [regions] with no infections. Is that because no one has been infected there, or are we missing something?” said Health Minister Luiz Henrique Mandetta this week.
These numbers have been updated on March 21, 2020, at 1:40 pm.
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