Numbers of the week: Apr. 4, 2020

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 topics: Covid-19 — Rise of death and confirmed cases, the effects of inequality in the favelas, emergency salaries, Bolsonaro isolated, Justice Minister Moro’s path to 2022 elections, scarce lung ventilators, the President’s popularity in a nosedive, financial help for hospitals.

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Covid-19 in Brazil: 4-percent lethality

The coronavirus has infected at least 9,056 people in Brazil as of April 3 — with 359 confirmed deaths. The country has also seen its worth four-day stretch since the crisis began, with daily infections more than doubling to almost 1,200. Worldwide cases have topped 1.1 million — to a death toll of nearly 61,000 as time of publishing.

92 percent of vulnerable single-parent homes

Without an enhanced cash-transfer program, 92 percent of Brazilian mothers in favelas fear they will not be able to feed their children within a month, according to a study by the Data Favela Institute. As the in-person economy grinds to a halt, informal workers were deprived of their revenue sources. With social distancing policies forcing workers...