China News Agency, Sao Paulo, April 21 (Reporter Mo Chengxiong) The Brazilian Ministry of Health announced on the 21st local time that as of 14 o'clock that day, Brazil had 2498 new cases of new pneumonia diagnosed, with a cumulative diagnosis of 43079. A total of 2741 deaths. At present, the beds in the intensive care units of hospitals in several Brazilian states are in emergency and the medical system is facing difficulties.
Data map: On April 9, local time, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, a cashier wearing a mask worked in a supermarket.
According to the Brazilian Ministry of Health, the most populous state in São Paulo, Brazil, is still the “severely affected area” of the Brazilian epidemic. As of now, the number of confirmed cases in the state has reached 15,385, and the deaths have risen to 1093. The second is Rio de Janeiro, with 5,306 and 461 confirmed and dead cases, respectively. In addition, the number of deaths in Pernambuco, Ceara, and Amazonas reached 260, 215, and 193, respectively.
Due to the rapid increase in patients, at present, the beds in the intensive care units of hospitals in several states in Brazil are almost full, a large number of patients cannot be admitted to the hospital, and the medical system is on the verge of collapse. Located in the state of Pernambuco in northeastern Brazil, 99% of intensive care beds have been used to treat patients with new coronary pneumonia. All the intensive care beds in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, are full, and 36 of the 106 dead people buried in the city died on the 20th. There is also almost no empty bed in the intensive care unit in the state of Ceara in the north. The total number of patients hospitalized for respiratory diseases in the State of Rio de Janeiro over the past 4 weeks has exceeded the total for the whole year last year.
On the 21st, the city of Sao Paulo reported that a 32-year-old male emergency physician died of suspected new coronary pneumonia. According to data released by the city's health bureau, since the epidemic occurred, 3336 medical personnel in the city have resigned because of suspected infection with new coronary pneumonia, and 532 of them have been diagnosed. At least 12 medical staff in the city have died of new coronary pneumonia. (Finish)