Less than five months after registering the first death caused by the new coronavirus, Brazil surpassed, on Saturday afternoon, the 100 thousand deaths resulting from the disease.
With the record of 538 new deaths since the day before 13:30 this Saturday, the country thus totals 100,240 deaths from the disease, according to data collected with the state health departments by the consortium formed by Folha, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, the Globo and G1.
The number of registered cases, in turn, is close to 3 million, with 21,732 new notifications and a total of 2,988,796 people who have had the infection confirmed, but it is likely to be underreported. As a result, Brazil now has about 6.5% of the world's cases and 13.8% of those killed by the disease globally, although the country is home to only 2.7% of the planet's population.
"We are going to touch a life. To touch life and look for a way to get away from this problem," said President Jair Bolsonaro when commenting on the live figures last Thursday (6).
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Translated by Kiratiana Freelon