Brazil has not seen such a high number of daily infections since last September 18, when it reported 150,110 infections.
Brazil, one of the countries hardest hit by Covid-19 in the world, registered 137,103 new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the second highest number of cases for one day since the start of the pandemic.
The South American country has not seen such a high number of daily infections since last September 18, when it reported 150,110 infections.
Without considering the numbers of September 18, the number of infections on Tuesday is the highest since the start of the pandemic and exceeds the 115,230 infections of last June 23, at the peak of the second wave of the pandemic.
The number of daily infections in Brazil multiplied by 80 in the last two weeks, from 1,720 cases on January 2 to 137,103 on the last day, driven by the presence of the omicron variant in the country.
With the increase in infections, the average number of cases in the last week stood at 83,205 daily, the highest since the start of the pandemic.
According to data from the Ministry of Health, in addition to the 137,103 new cases, 351 new deaths from covid were recorded in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths to 621,513 and the number of infections to 23,211,894 since the start of the pandemic. .
Health authorities indicated that the number of deaths has also been growing in recent days, driven by Ómicron.
The number of deaths on January 18 was the highest in the last two months, since that registered on November 17 (373 deaths).
These pandemic figures confirm Brazil as the second country in the number of deaths from Covid-19 in the world after the United States and as the third in number of infections after the US and India.