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: confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, emergency salary, infections could be underreported, ventilators from China, Brazilians in a scam in Ireland, researchers in a Covid-19 study program, May as the peak month of infections, the president’s barbecue in the middle of the pandemic, and more.
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According to the Health Ministry’s latest coronavirus update, Brazil has recorded 53,739 new Covid-19 cases and 3,568 deaths since last Friday — bringing the total figures to 145,328 and 9,897, respectively. On Friday, the country recorded the highest number of new deaths (751) since the pandemic arrived in Brazil.
A study carried out by Brazilian researchers concludes that Brazil’s actual number of coronavirus infections could be over 4.2 million — or 28 times higher than the official count. “Although measures taken so far have reduced the number of transmissions, the data suggest that the epidemic continues to increase exponentially in all 16 Brazilian states analyzed,” Ricardo Schnekenberg, of the University of Oxford’s...
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